This just in: the jury in the Scott Peterson double murder trial has found Peterson guilty of both the murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child.

What a sad, sad situation, no matter how you look at it.

What is interesting from a legal standpoint is the issue of what is considered murder of a fetus. Typically it is when the child is wanted, and someone intervenes and causes their death.

But, what if it were someone else who had actually murdered Laci, and what if Laci hadn’t wanted the baby, and Scott had?

And how is that different from a father having no say over the voluntary termination of the pregnancy of his child?

Very interesting legal issues ahead, I predict.

Ok, now I really have heard of everything.

Apple is now selling..are you ready?….a sock for your iPod. Actually, six socks for your iPod, to be more precise. The six-pack of socks, one each of six different colours, is available from the apple store, and looks like this:

Now, I’m as gimmick-struck as the next person (maybe even more so), but this is just…stupid.

Of course, if they came up with a fedora for my iPaq, that would rock.

Still, if your iPod has cold tootsies, you can buy it a six-pack of iSocks here.

Ok, now I really have heard of everything.

Apple is now selling..are you ready?….a sock for your iPod. Actually, six socks for your iPod, to be more precise. The six-pack of socks, one each of six different colours, is available from the apple store, and looks like this:

Ok, now, I’m as gimmick-struck as the next person (maybe even more so), but this is just…stupid.

Now, if they came up with a fedora for my iPaq, that would rock.

Still, if your iPod has cold tootsies, you can buy it a six-pack of iSocks here.

USA Today is reporting that undercover investigators managed to get both weapons and explosives past airport screeners at no fewer than fifteen U.S. airports.

The full results of the investigation were recently disclosed to Congress, with an abbreviated version being released to the public.

John Mica a representative from Florida, and Chairman of a House aviation subcommittee, is quoted as saying that “the results on weapons were “bad enough,” but the results on explosives were “absolutely horrendous.””

While the government has installed explosive-detection devices for baggage which is checked, they have, inexcusably, not mandated such devices for screening of passengers and their carry-on luggage. Because, of course, a passenger is much more likely to stow a weapon or explosive device, and then somehow get into the cargo hold at 30,000 feet to retrieve it. In fact, passengers are usually just sent through metal detectors and only occasionally checked by explosive trace detection equipment.

“You’re not going to find plastic explosives with a metal detector, no matter how hard you try,” said Oregon representative Peter DeFazio, in a blinding bit of logic that had somehow escaped those charged with, you know, keeping us all safe in the unfriendly skies.

This seems to be one more case where the balance of interest weighs in favour of big business concerns, and against our country’s citizens. The odds of any one of the hundreds of flights which go out each day being brought down are relatively low, even though the results are devastating for all involved. On the other hand, think about what it would do to the airline and travel industries if we instituted real security. What’s more important, a few thousand lives, or several hundreds of millions of dollars? You be the judge.

You can read more about this here.

In a move which is just so baffling that I can’t even think of anything snide to say about it, the Olsen twins are in France promoting McDonald’s Happy Meals.

The Happy Meals contain tchotchkes which bear either the names or likenesses of the Olsen twins.

Twin Mary-Kate was recently released from a widely-publicized treatment for anorexia.

Somehow the two just don’t go together. Or shouldn’t.

You can read more here.

For those of you who don’t have nubile teenagers going to teen nudist camp (if you don’t know to what I’m referring, see http://www.mangemerde.com/but-honey-the-law-says-that-i-have-to-go-watch-all-those-nubile-naked-teenagers/), you can always get a job as a Canadian visa official.

Yes, it’s true – the Toronto Sun has reported that non-Canadian women wishing to enter Canada to work as nude dancers must submit nude photos of themselves to qualify for a visa. A report in the Toronto Sun explains that the poor visa officials are having to pore over hundreds of pictures of nude exotic dancers. Such a tragedy.

As one Canadian official put it: If they don’t have pictures in the nude, they are not going to wiggle their bottoms in Canada.