Weekend Review

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is still dead. Agree or disagree with him, his impact on the U.S. legal system will be felt for a long time.

In bigger news, 150,000 penguins perished after a giant iceberg trapped the colony in Antarctica:

About 150,000 penguins have died since being stranded by a vast iceberg that became lodged off the coast of Antarctica six years ago, according to the journal Antarctic Science. 

Combined with expanding ice, the B09B iceberg, which at 1,120 square miles is almost the size of Rhode Island, has cut off the Adelie penguins' food supply and changed the landscape of their home, according to a February report in the peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press.

To my more progressive friends out there, this is what you call the result of global COOLING. So the next time you want to bring up some picture of a polar bear drowning, just think of this:

...The iceberg essentially has landlocked the penguins, forcing the animals to trek across a desolate stretch of nearly 40 miles to find food. 

The once 160,000-strong colony has now dwindled to 10,000 penguins.

In MUCH happier news, I have a hangnail. Not really, but you have to admit, that would be happier than how I started this post.

But seriously, here is better news from CNN:

A Disney cruise ship stopped on its way to the Cayman Islands to pick up 12 suspected migrants southeast of Cuba, the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday.

Let's see: They get to go to the tax-free Cayman Islands on a Disney cruise ship for free? How do I get in on this deal?

The migrants were brought aboard the boat, which boasts "11 decks overflowing with restaurants, pools, recreation and more." 

Now Disney can add Cubans to that list...