The Rundown: First amendment threats, robot killers, and burning bunnies (for fuel)

* FBI arrests man for reporting on police movements at G20 summit Elliot Madison was arrested for reporting on police movement and helping protesters coordinate their actions at the G20 summit. You need to pay attention this, ASAP. Madison was relaying the publicly observed and reported actions of police. If that's illegal, then every journalist in this country, myself included, should be in jail. He also helped to coordinate protesters nonviolently voicing their grievances with political and economic leaders. 

Both of those activities are absolutely essential to a free society, regardless of what political viewpoint is using them. Madison's arrest is in clear violation of the First Amendment to our Constitution and to any meaningful idea of free speech. 

(Thanks to The Grumpy Owl for the links)

* We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.

* CIA invests in social media monitoring firm An agency with a spotty (to put it charitably) history of respecting civil liberties and legal limits invests in a surveillance program to keep an eye on new media. Yeah, that's going to turn out well.

* Bodies of thousands of bunnies used to power Swedish heating plant Yes, you read that right. No, I'm not making this up. The Swedes have to cull thousands of rabbits to prevent overpopulation. So they figured they might as well use the damn things for fuel.

Of course, this does open up the most cinematically villainous power source ever: burning cute, fluffy animals as fuel. The mind boggles.

* A catalog of willful human ignorance Photographs of the contents of the stomachs of albatross chicks. In a wildlife sanctuary. Wrenching stuff.

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And there you have it, ladies and gents. What this points to is clear. Just after tomorrow, a spaceship filled with plucky adventurers will land on our planet's surface. They will see our species, residing in mobile hell-fortresses circled by tireless killer robot drones and rings of dead birds, their stomachs stuffed with plastic. After a suspenseful quest, they will find the bowels of these machines powered by a constant stream of cute, innocent-looking animals; with the occasional dissident tossed into the furnace for good measure.

Such a monstrous race of tyrants, they will conclude, must be stopped.