America, Fuck Yeah

A snapshot, if you will:

If you are arrested by Federal authorities, you might just have your DNA collected and stored in a database
“Peter Neufeld, a lawyer who is a co-director of the Innocence Project, which has exonerated dozens of prison inmates using DNA evidence, said the government was overreaching by seeking to apply DNA sampling as universally as fingerprinting. (Whereas fingerprints merely identify the person who left them,â€? Mr. Neufeld said, (DNA profiles have the potential to reveal our physical diseases and mental disorders. It becomes intrusive when the government begins to mine our most intimate matters.â€?

More kids in the US are having obesity surgery
“Egged on by TV shows and commercials expounding the benefits of weight-loss surgery, adult patients have begun showing up at Penn’s Center for Weight and Eating Disorders demanding an operation as an easy first step to thinness.
“When we ask them, ‘What have you done so far to lose weight?’ The patients say, ‘Nothing,’” Wadden said. “They’re going right to a $25,000 operation for which they are ill-prepared.” It would be tragic, he said, to see the same phenomenon repeated among children.

A women gave birth in an Atlantic City casino
“At first, she said she mistook the labor pains for gas.”

But hey, at least there’s always eagles carrying deer heads to brighten the mood:

About 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines.
“The bird, weighed down by the deer head, apparently failed to clear the transmission lines, she said. A repair crew found the eagle dead, the deer head nearby.”