News Flashes I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

By Filed under Interesting Links on April 5, 2011 with 6 comments

City bans girls from selling Girl Scout Cookies on front lawn…

Plessy v. Ferguson isn’t dead. Native Americans can use eagle feathers. Non-Native Americans can’t.

New study: The desire to start smoking is genetic.

Former British National Health Service director dies after operation is cancelled four times at her own hospital.

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  1. Bruce says:
    April 5, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    Indians can have eagle feathers and I can’t? What’s the world coming to?

  2. Greg says:
    April 5, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    Great squib about the British National Health Service. It just doesn’t get any more ironic than that.

  3. Devon Herrick says:
    April 5, 2011 at 2:42 pm

    The desire to start smoking is genetic? I would have thought the degree of difficulty people experience stopping smoking could be genetic but not starting.

  4. Virginia says:
    April 5, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    I’ve never been a big fan of girl scout cookies. It always seems like an organization that aims to turn kids into marketing agents.

  5. Jeff says:
    April 6, 2011 at 8:26 am

    Government versus the Girl Scouts. You just couldn’t make this stuff up.

  6. PrometheeFeu says:
    April 7, 2011 at 1:15 am

    Awesome! Racial segregation AND abusive restriction on trade. God this is annoying.