A budding program at the Milwaukee County Zoo is working to place iPads into the giant, gentle palms of their orangutans. Two of the zoo’s orangutans already look forward to weekly sessions with an iPad. They even have favorite apps, shows and games, but they haven’t yet been given free rein with the Apple device because keepers worry they might get frustrated and simply snap one in half.

Detective Robert DiGiacomo told Channel 4 Action News reporter Marcie Cipriani that he was behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Impala in Shadyside, looking for a person involved in an assault on Sunday evening, when a young man climbed into the passenger side of the car.

“A white male wearing a black and gold tank top sits in the car, looks at me and tells me to get out of the car,” said DiGiacomo.

 

Calamosca “said he was just filming the movie ‘Batman,’ and that him taking my vehicle was part of the script,” according to the criminal complaint filed by DiGiacomo.

But making nebulous calls for centrism, like writing news reports that always place equal blame on both parties, is a big cop-out — a cop-out that only encourages more bad behavior. The problem with American politics right now is Republican extremism, and if you’re not willing to say that, you’re helping make that problem worse.

-Paul Krugman