Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty : The New Yorker

Did Texas execute an innocent man?

It's long, but well worth reading. It appears that Texas relied more on machismo, gut feelings, and the hokey-pokey instead of due process, science, and reliable investigators. So they killed an innocent man. After making him spend ~15 years in prison. After his children were killed in the fire. Which he was blamed for, along with wanting to murder them. And his wife left him while he was in prison.
Way to kick a man when he's down, Texas.
This is not good. If you ever have power over another man's life, be very sure you have the right to take it. We all answer to God in the end.

People of Walmart
On a less horrifying note, here's something I found from my sister. People of Walmart. If you are not an American, this is the sort of thing you can see in America. I don't care which picture it is, you can see this sort of thing almost anywhere, if you're lucky.
I love my country, and I try to love people the same way God does, but...sometimes it's harder. If they just look crazy, or are poor, or whatever, hey, I've done that, and that's nothing much. We are the same to God. It's the ones who are crazy with attitude that are harder to love. The arrogant ones. And yet I know God loves them, too. My Savior is far more amazing than I could ever hope.
Anyway, it's picture of people (and their things) at Walmart.

Pigeon beats Net firm in data transfer race

Bird with card strapped to leg triumphs in 50-mile South African showdown

I'd believe that.

U.S. student kills burglar with samurai sword
And it sounds like he knew how to use it, too - he took the guy's hand off in addition to slashing his neck.

Unguided, we really do go in circles, study finds

Just as pop­u­lar wis­dom holds, peo­ple try­ing to walk a straight course through un­fa­mil­iar ter­ri­to­ry end up walk­ing in cir­cles, ac­cord­ing to a new stu­dy.

That's too bad, huh?

Cities work much like brains, study finds
The bigger and more complex the city/brain, the more, and better, connections it needs. Pay attention, city of Atlanta! All of America, for that matter.

Masked speeder stymies Arizona police - Crime & courts- msnbc.com
Sounds like the typical guy trying, pathetically, to get out of paying fines for speeding. Except he points this out:

VonTesmar, who said he simply drives with the flow of traffic, said if DPS does have surveillance photos of him on the road, it proves he's not a danger to other drivers. If he was, DPS would have pulled him over, he said.

Also:

"They're out staking out a guy with a monkey mask?" he said. "They watched him break the law and didn't do anything about it? If they had pulled him over, they could have pulled the mask off. It just proves photo radar is not about safety, it's about money."

And cops wonder why people don't respect them. Or the speed limit. Or the government. If you know you're the one people see most often as representing the government, how do you think you should act?
Of course, Christians have a duty to obey, no matter how stupid the rules (unless they go against what God has commanded); but, even if you're not a Christian, as a citizen of the US, or wherever you find yourself, you should probably obey anyway.