This afternoon, Jackie and I talked about a group of students at the University of Chicago that formed a group called ‘Men in Power’… they want to ‘help men get ahead professionally’. Does this make them anti women?

Here’s the story from the Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-u-of-c-mens-groupmay19,0,4707353.story

I can’t believe some people are calling these guys ‘misogynistic’. Do we believe in equality, or not? There are countless women’s groups, why not a men’s group?

Here in the newsroom yesterday, I heard over the scanner something about an accident on E. Badger Road north of Everson, so I used Google maps to check the location of the address given.

Lo and behold, Google has apparently sent their camera vehicle down E. Badger to provide images for their ’street view’ feature, and honestly, it’s a little creepy.

Try it yourself: click here, http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl, then search ‘e badger rd everson’… once you have a map of the area up, then click and drag the icon of the little orange man onto E. Badger Road on the map. You’ll see the roads with ’street view’ turn blue, and then when you let go, you’ll get a photo from that location on the road.

I’ve used ’street view’ before, usually to check out things in big cities like Seattle. But when you can zoom in on trucks in the driveways of local dairy farms, it starts to get a bit weird.

So far, Google only has street view for state highways, I-5, and a few Bellingham streets in Whatcom County, but it’s already starting to feel like an invasion of privacy. If I could zoom in on a street view of my own house out in the country (not just an overhead satellite view, as they also provide), I don’t think I’d be okay with that.

Also, I see today that Greece is banning ’street view’ in that country. Read the article here: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.35c2e98a13639c54adb496c3f97d16bf.21&show_article=1

What do you think?