Sudan: well, there's a shock...

Auntie Beeb's web site reports that Omar al-Bashir's happy little government of enablers of murderers and rapists  doesn't much like the ICC indictment. Well, pshaw.

(Note to al-Bashir: it's only "neocolonialist" if somebody other than your pals is doing the killing, right...?)

Who watches...?

Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 64 or so, which means that Watchmen has a beat you can dance to but not much in the way of memorable hooks. Still, Alan Moore must be hoping beyond all hope that this ends up closer to From Hell in terms of film adaptation rep than it does The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.  

The march of the Stupid, Louisiana and Utah editions

PZ Myers gets appropriately snarky about ID proponent Michael Egnor's whine about the SICB boycott of New Orleans. It also seems that Governor Clueless never bothered to respond to the SICB letter, although that page mentions the efforts of a certain other nefarious elected cretin from Utah and his efforts to get a similar bill passed.

The NHL trade deadline is your friend...?

And in other Chicago Blackhawks news, it's Wisniewski (and others) for Pahlsson (and others), and other than the fact that the Ducks GM is former Hawks GM Bob Murray (hence the deal), I'm a trifle confused as to how this gets us closer to the Cup.