More Rough Beast

Photograph by Elisa Rojas C. From LuxLikeVitriol, a collection of poems by Bogdan Ciochinaru.

Yesterday's reports on General Dempsey's warning to the Israeli government on any preemptive attack on Iran may have an echo in the IDF senior officer cohort, according to a new report from the UK Independent:

Almost the entire senior hierarchy of Israel's military and security establishment [jump]

Observers' paradox

Schrödinger's Cat. By Draguunthor at DeviantArt.

The tempest over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation massacre as it unfolded Thursday and Friday put me in mind of a problem on a blogospheric scale that I have meant to address for some time, the Heisenbergian way the Internet has of dealing with uncertainty—you can perceive the velocity of a story as it travels through the Tubes or its position, but not both at the same time, and the aspect you choose has an effect on what the story actually is.

The news that SGK had reversed its decision to withdraw funding for breast examinations [jump]