Down Under: Police in Sydney have locked down the central business district of Australia’s largest city as they negotiate with a gunman who’s taken hostages in a café. Five people are reported to have escaped but more are inside. The …

Glitchlock: The NY Times quotes computer experts saying that it could be mid-December before the Obamacare website problems are fixed and that’s after the deadline to buy medical insurance that starts in January. As many as 5 million lines of …

Computer wizard Edward Snowden is leading American intelligence and law enforcement on a reality game of “Where’s Waldo?” Snowden flew out of Hong Kong to Moscow, and from there he’s headed to parts unknown. Our spooks know everything about what …

 National: The State of Illinois is $100 billion short on its employee pension obligations and doesn’t know how it will pay. The governor has called a special session of the legislature to deal with it. All the states took a …

  It is a shock that there was cheating going on in the Olympic badminton competition. Actually the shock is not so much the cheating, but that badminton is an Olympic sport.  This is a game created by bored British …