Bitcoin Value Tops $1,000, Joe Biden Is Our Man in Asia, Judge Orders Hot Sauce Factory to Stink Less: P.M. Links

The value of a bitcoin topped
$1,000 at Mt. Gox for the first time today.
To ease tension between China and other Asian nations over
disputed ownership of some South China Seas Islands, the United
States will be sending …
Joe Biden.
A judge has ordered a
Sriracha chili sauce factory in California to stop whatever
operations are causing neighbors to complain about the smell, but
stopped short of ordering the whole thing shut down.
A British couple has lost its fight with the UK Supreme Court
to
deny a room to a gay couple at their bed and breakfast because
of their religious objections to sex outside of marriage. They were
ordered to pay damages.
Three have been killed in Sao Paoli, Brazil, after a
crane collapsed at one of the stadiums being built for next
summer’s World Cup.
A Democratic Colorado state senator targeted for recall over
her vote for the passage of gun control laws has
announced her resignation. If she fought the recall and lost,
Democrats would have lost control of the state senate. This method
will allow Democrats to choose her replacement until the next
election.