July 30--Google is appealing a French order that threatens to expand Europe's right-to-be-forgotten search engine constraints globally. It's an affront to nature to want more missing links in the world.
A New York State Supreme Court judge ruled that a research chimpanzee is not a person and therefore isn't entitled to rights of personhood. The next legal move is being plotted by an infinite number of chimps.
Some Olympic events next summer will be staged in sewage-contaminated water, the Associated Press reports. Rio de Janeiro organizers seem unconcerned, which is a sewage-contaminated response.
Could be worse. Rowing, canoeing and kayaking Olympians won't be sent up Rio's waters without a proverbial paddle.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry surprised some with a Manhattan speech that echoed Wall Street critics seeking reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act. Talk of walls, real and metaphorical, isn't uncommon among 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls. Floating the idea of one between banks' commercial lending and investment banking businesses is.
Discovery's Destination America channel plans to televise a live exorcism on Oct. 30. Any evil spirits or demons driven off will be greeted by E! and TLC executives, ready to offer them their own reality TV series.
It was 20 years ago Friday that Disney unexpectedly announced its $19 billion acquisition of Capital Cities-ABC, a bargain in no small part because of the 80 percent stake in ESPN included. One analysis last year pegged ESPN's value alone at more than $50 billion.
philrosenthal@tribpub.com
