This piece of “news” just emailed to me

At Heathrow Airport today, an individual, later discovered to be a school teacher, was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a compass, a protractor, and a graphical calculator. Authorities believe she is a member of the notorious al-Gebra movement. She is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.

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Non-news

Delta wants to fly to the currently unused Detroit City Airport — but only if the government will give them money from a grant program that the airport probably doesn’t qualify for anyway.

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Man Gets Life in Prison for Spitting

I do hope the state courts overturn this verdict. (Link via the Volokh Conspiracy.) An Oklahoma man arrested on suspicion of beating his wife faced year in prison and a fine. But when he spit in an arresting officer’s face, he got a life sentence instead, officials said Wednesday. John Carl Marquez, 36, was convicted of “placing bodily fluid upon a government employee,” a felony that can carry a life sentence because of the possibility of transmitting a potentially deadly disease. State judge April Sellers White sentenced Marquez this week even though Marquez and the officer tested negative for any communicable disease.

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