Odds ‘n Sods:

Reader T.P. sent in this snitch linkwith this comment from the official NYC web site: “You can make a complaint about businesses that sell toy or fake guns that are not brightly colored. It is illegal to sell or offer a toy or fake gun that looks like an actual gun, unless the toy is brightly colored. Fake guns that are black, silver, or camouflage-colored are prohibited.” Another reason to flee the insanity!

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They Can See a ‘Stick of Butter from Space’ — The Billion Dollar Spy Agency You’ve Never Heard Of. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is to pictures what the NSA is to voices, and they are used domestically as well as internationally.

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If ever there was a reason to raid an organization: Immigrants Find Sanctuary In Growing Austin Church Network (The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin) – W.W.

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The America You Don’t Know. “There is a subterranean river of anger, rage and violence that flows just under the daily currents of American public life. It flows, unseen, much like the great rivers that live within our oceans and which control so much of the earth’s weather and climate.” – B.B.

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Alone in the Wild for a Year, TV Contestants Learn Their Show Was Canceled. “The remaining contestants on a reality television series have emerged after surviving 12 months in the Scottish wilderness — fending off hunger, infighting and fatigue — only to learn that the show stopped broadcasting after four episodes, the last of them in August.” – H.L.