Stuff We Wanted to Blog About This Week But Just Couldn't

• America has an alarmingly high amount of prisoners in comparison to other Western nations. (Of course, the majority of them are minorities.)
• Rupert Murdoch is trying to add Newsday to his media empire, but is running into complications with the FCC, since he already owns two print publications and two local TV stations in the New York metropolitan area, and a buying a third publication would be illegal. We expect the FCC to cave any day now.
• The three New York City detectives that pumped 50 bullets into city resident Sean Bell, an African-American man, the night before his wedding day got acquitted of all charges. It's so nice to see justice prevail.
• The Senate passed a bill banning genetic discrimination, because unlike sexism and racism, it affects all of them.
• A record number of people across the country have applied for emergency energy assistance grants to help pay electric and oil bills that they couldn't afford this winter.
  
• Taliban-style laws appear to be making a comeback in Afghanistan.