People familiar with our new Attorney General’s record (of which I am emphatically not one, as I’ve never heard of him before today) take a dim view of his appointment. So we may be worse off in terms of the Justice Department fufilling its appointed role, and not just being the enforcement arm of the administration’s political agenda, than we were this time last week.

Light pollution has been one of my peccadilloes for a while, but I’ve only just now found out that there’s somebody trying to do something about it. The International Dark Sky Association works to “build awareness of the problem of light pollution and of the solutions, […] the adverse problems affecting our view of the universe in which we live […] to preserve the beauty of the night around us.” I still remember moving from the boondocks to the suburbs when I was a teenager. I’ve stepped up to even more urbanized areas since, and I still miss the night sky.

Amazing to me: Wal-Mart in Germany is officially recognizing their cruisiness. Here I was thinking that my local 24 hour supercenter was unique with their unofficial Friday night 12-2 am mobile gay bar. It is slightly creepy, though, to imagine what must be going on in housewares at the back of the store.