I enjoyed gather random news articles last week… so I thought I would do it again. 
Summary:
A trash dump in Brazil is converting "methane produced by rotting trash" into carbon dioxide while selling carbon-credits to European companies.
Comments:
At first glance, it seems that the dump is doing more harm as it's releasing carbon dioxide into the air. However, it turns out that methane is 21 times more damaging then carbon dioxide….. hmmmm…. I guess we should all stop eating beans.
Summary:
472 silver coins were discovered “while excavating a Bronze Age tomb near Stockholm's Arlanda airport.”
Kenneth Jonsson, a professor of coin studies at the University of Stockholm, has independently dated the hoard to about A.D. 850. "That date is very early, because coin imports [by the Vikings] only start in about [A.D.] 800," Jonsson said. The discovery contains more coins than Sweden's only other known large Viking hoard from the period, which was discovered in 1827, Jonsson added.
Comments:
This reminds me of my Grandparents encouragement to save all fifty-cent pieces as well as other “cool” coins as metal never goes out of style. Of course, most (if not all) modern coins are make from nickel and copper with very little (read none) silver. Sigh[@more@]
Summary:
Vietnam has set up a new Bear Rescue Centre in Tam Dao National Park. Currently, officials are taking care of “four 50kg endangered Asiatic black cubs and two adults that were smuggled either from neighbouring Laos or from southern Vietnam in the past seven months, and confiscated by the authorities.”
Comments:
When I first read the headline, I was surprised – mainly because I don’t associate bears with Vietnam. When I think Vietnam, I think of jungle, snakes, war, jaguars, and other junglee creatures. Bears are reserved for high mountain forest and lakes… like the Rockies. 
I guess I should re-think my bear terrain.
Summary:
EVERY country has moral cretins like John Deaves, who has had two children already by his daughter, Jenny. But it's how we react to such people that shows whether the rest of us are sick, too.
We have taboos – like this one on incest – because we know people are too weak to work out and stick to sensible moral rules. Not without putting the fear of God into them.
If we turn a taboo on incest into a decide-for-yourself, as we do now with so much, we risk turning a lot more children than Jenny and Jackson into victims of their fathers.
No wonder, then, that many parents feel instinctively that 60 Minutes has itself transgressed by trying to prettify and normalise John and Jenny's incest, and rewarding them with clothes and offers of cash.
As I said, every society has its moral monsters. But it's only when a 60 Minutes treats them as normal – and disrespects our most fundamental taboos – that we know we have a problem worse than John Deaves.
Comments:
I would have to agree with the Andrew Bolt, the article author. A lot of immortal things have been billed as “normal” – speeding the decay of society.
Of course, there is that fine line of personal freedom…. sigh. Nothing is every cut and dry.