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Boston Review — Special Feature: Closing Guantánamo
Torture prosecutions finally begin in the U.S. - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - . if they're from Liberia
Israel moves forward and sends more troops to Gaza
ANALYSIS / Rivalry among Israel's leaders at root of row on Gaza cease-fire - Haaretz - Israel News
Israel rejects truce call, pursues bombing Gaza
Gaza Voices, American Silence - by Kenneth Ring
Robert Fisk: Leaders lie, civilians die, and lessons of history are ignored - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent
Ali Abunimah: No words left to describe latest Gaza catastophe | Comment is free | The Guardian Palestinians are at a loss to describe this latest catastrophe. International civil society must act now
Johann Hari: The true story behind this war is not the one Israel is telling - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
ei: "If there is an Israeli invasion hospitals will collapse"
Gaza relief boat damaged in encounter with Israeli vessel - CNN.com ("accidentally" rammed three times)
Al Jazeera English - Americas - Obama's Gaza silence condemned
B'Tselem - Statistics - Fatalities
Neve Gordon and Jeff Halper: Where's the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?
Americans Should Act to End Violence Against Gaza
YouTube, Twitter: Weapons in Israel's Info War | Danger Room from Wired.com
Mondoweiss: In their own words Sallai Meridor, Israel's ambassador to the United States, talking to reporters
Mondoweiss: It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fabulous) Iraq comes home ("NPR, which administers the IV drip every morning on what Elite Blue Staters Are Allowed to Think")
Mondoweiss: Is Gaza curtains for the Israel lobby? Ross and Blankfort debate ("Israel that broke the cease-fire on Nov.4 (which was by no coincidence) the night Obama was elected")
Redress Newsblog: Pirates of the Mediterranean Israel has now confirmed itself as a rogue state by launching into international piracy.
The Nakba - an event that did not occur (although it had to occur)
Booman Tribune ~ Answer Gonzo's Question
TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Gonzo: I'm A Casualty Of The War On Terror
All Spin Zone » Alberto Gonzales Can’t Find a Job, Whines
News NewsReel - WSJ.com - Gonzales Defends Role in Antiterror Policies
Whiskey Fire: Good for You, Asshole! : Blagojevich's decision to go ahead and name a new senator. Sure, he's being an asshole, but there's a certain "joie de fuck you" quality to the announcement that you just have to admire
The Crypt: Roland Burris's Monument to Me - Politico.com
Russia Aside, Georgia Chief Is Pressed at Home - NYTimes.com
Conservatives Preparing For Coleman Defeat
TPM Election Central | Minnesota Recount Almost Over -- But Coleman Could Keep A Franken Win Bottled Up For Weeks
Michael Tomasky: Welcome to America's hall of shame | Comment is free | The Guardian From Sarah Palin to AIG's pamper-hungry sales reps, the following characters have made us less than proud

Paulson says U.S. lacked tools to tackle crisis: report | Reuters (oh?)
Property Values - What You Get for ... $150,000 - NYTimes.com
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler Forecast for 2009 ("May of 2009, the stock markets will resume crashing with the ultimate destination of a Dow 4000 before the end of the year")
California readies IOUs -- legislators would be first - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee
Paul Kedrosky: Scenarios for 2009: Straight Lines, Moonshots, EKGs, etc.

NASA faults equipment in Columbia shuttle disaster - CNN.com
Lawsuit would challenge oath, invocation - wtop.com (in a Republican God we trust)
Human beings are born with numbers on the brain | Easy as 1, 2, 3 | The Economist People come into the world ready to count its wonders
Hustler Articles: Who Is MSNBC Anchor Joe Scarborough? (coverup?)
2008 Science Retrospective: Science Journalists Need Some New Clichés In 2009
How to Press the Reset Button On Your Life | Zen Habits
Lake Superior State University :: Banished Words List :: Banished Words List
The Top 10 Political Technology Stories of 2008 | NextGenGOP.com | The Future of the Republican Party
BreakthroughAlert.com: Is a volcano big enough to cause an ice age really about to blow its top? (Yellowstone supervolcano)
A New Fleet of Spacecraft - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Google: Firefox and Chrome Run Gmail Twice as Fast as IE, Says Google
Must Have Cake? How are you going to get it? - NoNewbs
YouTube - Yoshimoto Cube
CSS Sprites + Rounded corners | Css Globe
middlespot.com - powerful new interface for analyzing and managing your search results. No plugins, logins or passwords required.
Time For Some Stories (Davesecretary)
SaruDama: Kwaidan - Yuki-Onna (Snow Woman) - Japanese Folklore
Yuki-Onna - SamuraiWiki
Yuki-onna ~ part of The Obakemono Project: An Online Encylopedia of Yokai and Bakemono
Spelunky!
Play Flash Element TD 2, a free online game on Kongregate
John_Stump_-_FaeriesAireandDeathWaltz.jpg
27xezpi.jpg ("we sell more seats than the Governor")
HAA, Hired Assassin Agency
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An Oral History of the Bush White House: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com: Farewell to All That
Cheney's Legacy of Deception By Robert Scheer (worst VP ever)
ANALYSIS / Hamas is hoping for an IDF ground operation in Gaza - Haaretz - Israel News
Israel bombs Gaza home of top Hamas commander - Haaretz - Israel News Tuesday's death toll included two sisters, aged 4 and 11, who perished in an airstrike on a rocket squad in northern Gaza on Tuesday.
Firedoglake » Why Are Palestinians Expected to Do What Americans Would Never Do?
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards Israel (Congress way out of step with American public)
TheHill.com - Kucinich criticizes Israel; wants U.N. probe
The Washington Monthly: The Well Was Fine (more lies from the history re-writers)
Talking Points Memo | Zbig Smacks Down Mornin' Joe: Zbig to Joe: "You have a such stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on it's almost embarrassing to listen to you."
TPM: News Pages | Talking Points Memo | Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina Former Bush advisers say Katrina severely damaged Bush's ability to talk to nation
'Magic Negro' flap might help Saltsman - Andy Barr - Politico.com (Republicans: party of southern racists over 50 years old)
From the left, a call to end the current Dutch notion of tolerance - International Herald Tribune
The Progressive Puppy: Judge to lesbian mom: No cohabitation, or lose your child - George Robert Ellis of Tennessee's 28th Judicial District, homophobe
Nervous About Nixon? by David Schwartz - Moving Image Source A new DVD offers the real Frost/Nixon Watergate interview from 1977
Why Can't I Get Off This List? - washingtonpost.com (homeland stupidity)

Daily Kos: Former Merrill Lynch executive pays 37 million for NYC apartment (with taxpayer money) (he worked 3 months)
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/29/2008 | When textile quotas end this week, will U.S. jobs go, too?
As More Retailers Fail, Malls Could Be Next Victim - Holiday Central - CNBC.com
Parent Company, a Retailer, Files for Bankruptcy - NYTimes.com
What Consumer Confidence Means for the US Dollar in 2009
Home Prices Fell at Their Sharpest Pace in October - NYTimes.com
Breaking Up Is Harder to Do After Housing Fall - NYTimes.com
Open Left:: More Perspective On Great Depression / FDR
Why Wall Street Always Blows It - The Atlantic (December 2008) (Henry Blodget)

Firedoglake » Dennis Prager’s Helpful Marital Advice To The Ladies, Part II (LOLRepublicans)
The Associated Press: Mass. says new pot law allows other THC drugs, too
25C3: MD5 considered harmful today
Researchers Use PlayStation Cluster to Forge a Web Skeleton Key | Threat Level from Wired.com
Major Break in MD5 Signed X.509 Certificates
HashClash
RIAA Thomas Appeal Denied; Retrial Likely to Set New Copyright Infringement Course | Threat Level from Wired.com
The Seven Best Capers of 2008 | Threat Level from Wired.com
50 Resources for Getting the Most Out of Google Analytics
Recent Earthquakes for Yellowstone
Widespread Female Circumcision Highlights the Plight of Kurdish Women - washingtonpost.com The Widespread Practice of Female Circumcision in Iraq's North Highlights The Plight of Women in a Region Often Seen as More Socially Progressive (submission to male authority)
Phenomenica: Two 7th century B.C. graves accidentally discovered in Turkey
One year in 40 seconds on Vimeo
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Israel says Gaza assault 'war to the bitter end'
Daily Kos: Today I end my support of Israel
Rice: People will soon thank Bush for what he's done - CNN.com (sure they are)
The Noose Tightens | Newsweek.com Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and other top Bush officials could soon face legal jeopardy.
Imprisoning Our Own: 8 Shocking Facts about American Incarceration | EcoSalon - The Green Gathering
Op-Ed Columnist - You’re Likable Enough, Gay People - NYTimes.com

Lehman bankruptcy filing wiped out billions: report - Yahoo! Finance (Paulson's $75 billion fuckup)
TPMMuckraker | What Happened To Madoff's Money?
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide Holiday Sales Drop to Force Bankruptcies, Closings
Class War: The $37 Million Park Ave. Apartment Your Bailout Bought
Robert J. Samuelson - The Crash in Conventional Wisdom - washingtonpost.com - It was once believed (everyone agreed with conventional wisdom except a few dirty hippies)
Whose Infrastructure? | The Big Picture (U.S. lived through biggest boom and spent almost nothing on infrastructure and education)(the bond markets would have crashed)

YouTube - THC Kills Glioma Cancer Cells - Medical Miracles from Europe
Think Progress » Study: Premarital abstinence pledges are ineffective (it was always about control and punishment) )
Everything you know about ARGs is wrong
A Cat's Nine Lives Video -- National Geographic
Bellflower: Child and his cat
Text Messages Cost Carriers Nothing | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
Vertor.com - Verified torrents
Scientific illiteracy all the rage among the glitterati - Science, News - The Independent
Nanomedicine, Nanomaterials, and the NIH
Schneier on Security: Gunpowder Is Okay to Bring on an Airplane
Atheist Revolution: Patron Who Complained About Indiana Library Nativity Faces Retaliation
We're Witnessing the Return of Religion as a Principle Cause of Warfare | | AlterNet
The Relaxation Response: A Bio-behavioral Perspective - The Tap Water Elixir (mindlessness meditation)
Tendency for Rumination in midlife may decrease risk for dementia decades later
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...: A Bloody Day in Gaza: Over 230 killed, hundreds injured
Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza offensive came about - Haaretz - Israel News
IDF mobilizes tanks, reinforces troops along Gaza border - Haaretz - Israel News
Rockets land east of Ashdod - Israel News, Ynetnews
Greg Mitchell: Attack on Gaza: As Usual, U.S. Media (And Most Liberals) Silent -- As Israeli Newspaper Raises Doubts
'An earthquake on top of your head' | World news | guardian.co.uk Dr Eyad Al Serraj, a practising psychologist in Gaza City, describes his family's terror as the Israeli attack began
J Street : Statement by Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, on Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Op-Ed Contributors - Transitions - Should the Obama Generation Drop Out? - NYTimes.com (Times publishes Charles "Bell Curve" Murray again - 90% of Americans too dumb for college)

The Reckoning - WaMu Built an Empire on Bad Loans - Series - NYTimes.com
Economic View - Bailout of Long-Term Capital - A Bad Precedent? - NYTimes.com
Kevin Drum - Mother Jones Blog: Nightmare on Main Street - 25.8% of 182 large retailers it tracks are at significant risk of filing for bankruptcy or facing financial distress in 2009 or 2010
Cash-strapped states weigh selling roads, parks - Yahoo! News (to the banks with the money they got from taxpayers, oh wait...)
Dark days for dynasty built on debt - Salt Lake Tribune (Bucksbaum family - Tom Friedman's wife - General Growth Properties - " As the mortgages came due, the company would replace them with even larger mortgages to provide cash for additional acquisitions." - sound familiar?)
Cars leaving lots without drivers | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/28/2008
OpEdNews » American Banking's Shameful Double Standard
Beat the Press Archive | Getting Rich Helping the Poor (Dean Baker thinks Nicholas Kristof is wrong about high-paid charity CEOs - "They are very effective at making themselves rich while destroying everything around them.")

Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008 - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Judith Warner - Living the Off-Label Life - NYTimes.com (Provigil)
Johann Hari - My experiment with smart drugs: Viagra for the brain? (compare w/Judith Warner's piece: why the NYT is doomed)
Get ready for 24-hour living - health - 18 February 2006 - New Scientist (Provigil)
How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil?
The Frontal Cortex : The Hidden Cost of Smart Drugs
Bloomberg.com: Latin America Expecting a Late Night? Sleep Deprivation Boosts Heart Risk
Agony and ecstasy | Agony and ecstasy | The Economist Ecstasy may be good for those who can’t get over something truly horrible
Polly Toynbee: My Christmas message? There's probably no God | Comment is free | The Guardian It is neither emotionally nor spiritually deficient to reject religions that seek to infantilise us with impossible beliefs
Top 100 Stories of 2008 | Discover Magazine
Sharon Smith: Rockefeller Family Fables The Self-Righteous Rich
xs The Lure of the Open Road - 1944 - mjgradziel.com Wartime wandering through the Eastern states by bicycle, truck, and riverboat. 1944.
nyc taxi photo
Scouting NY
English Russia » The Soviet Mayan Playing Cards
Watch Hippie Masala - SnagFilms
YouTube - Weng Weng Rap
TopTenTopTen - The Top Ten Top Ten Lists
"top ten" 2008 - Google News
Technorati Search: "top ten" 2008
The Top Ten Top Ten Lists About Video Games | The Exploding Barrel
Something Else: Top Top Ten Lists for 2008
My 10 top top 10 lists for 2008 - Computerworld Blogs
Just The Best Tech Lists of 2008 - PC World
Best Of 2008: Most Popular Top 10's of 2008
Swan Fungus » Top Ten Top Ten Top Tens! of 2008!(Ten)
Social Citizens Top Ten, Top-Ten List's for 2008 | Social Citizens Blog
The Top Ten Top-Ten Lists - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
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Israel demolishes Hamas compounds, over 200 dead - Yahoo! News
Who is Israel targeting in the Gaza - 40 police cadets and children among dead
Scores in Gaza Strip Killed in Wave of Israeli Airstrikes - washingtonpost.com Israeli Defense Minister Says Operations Targeting Hamas Will Be Expanded as Needed
United Press International: Analysis: Hamas history tied to Israel
Jeb Bush Ready to Roll For US Senate? | 3BlueDudes.com (tanned, fit and corrupt)
t r u t h o u t | The Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster "Empty Promise": The Broken Federal Commitment Behind the Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster (clean coal)
The Hill’s Pundits Blog » Apture — A Tool for Political News Transparency
Marianne Mollmann - A Way to Help the World's Women - washingtonpost.com

Federal Cases of Stock Fraud Drop Sharply - NYTimes.com
Think Progress » SEC Chair Asked If He Deserves Blame For Wall Street Crisis: ‘Absolutely Not,’ It ‘Wasn’t The SEC’s Job’ (it was nobody's job)
Jim Hightower | A Senatorial Hissy Fit Over The Bailout (8 Trillion for the financial guys just fine; autoworkers not so much)
Mortgage rates are still too high - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Matthew Yglesias » Retail Sales Down
Editorial - The Gas Tax - NYTimes.com
(Calvin and Hobbes explain the financial crisis)
The Housing Bears Are Wrong Again by Larry Kudlow on National Review Online (Kudlow, always wrong, makes more shit up)
The Economic News Isn't All Bleak - WSJ.com We may be in for a long slide. But there are also reasons to think the economy could rebound quickly (these guys were so right before, surely they're right this time)
Bubble, Bubble, Where’s the Housing Bubble? Margaret Hwang Smith Department of Economics Pomona College Claremont CA 91711 (why do these Republicans still have jobs?) w
24/7 Wall St.: Holiday Success At Amazon (AMZN) Runs Against The Grain

Faster Climate Change Feared New Report Points to Accelerated Melting, Longer Drought (someone tell Inhofe)
EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect | On Blogging Specialization.
Advice on how to blog from Arianna Huffington, Om Malik, and more of the Web's best pundits. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine Advice from Arianna Huffington, Om Malik, and more of the Web's best pundits.
Please don't divorce us
Internet sites could be given 'cinema-style age ratings', Culture Secretary says - Telegraph
Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star - Telegraph
A Bridge to Somewhere (Else) :: John Kotre :: Global Spiral A Review of Ann Belford Ulanov and Alvin Dueck, The Living God and Our Living Psyche: What Christians Can Learn From Carl Jung
Entangled Narratives: Competing Visions of the Good Life By William Grassi
What is Neurotheology? :: Charles Zeiders :: Global Spiral (the "Chrisitan Clinician" wtf)
Review - Radical Alterity - by Jean Baudrillard and Marc Guillaume
Somatosphere: Microbes and Anthropology
Venus Once Had as Much Water as Earth - What Happened?
YouTube - Asteroid Impact (HD)
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Poll: Obama is man Americans admire most - Usatoday.Com
Op-Ed Columnist - Barack Be Good - NYTimes.com
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - CNN Poll: Three out of four Americans glad to see Bush go - Blogs from CNN.com
Bush's $1 Trillion War on Terror: Even Costlier Than Expected - TIME (Bush changed it on his China card)
Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghanistan - washingtonpost.com
California will run out of money in February - Americas, World - The Independent
Tutu Calls for Threat of Force to Deal With Mugabe - NYTimes.com
Vatican Rewrites History On Galileo
Pew Survey Confirms What We All Know: Net Beats Newspapers As A Source For News

Truck and SUV sales rising as gas prices drop - Dec. 22, 2008
Press reports document criminality of US financial elite
China has put too many eggs in the American basket - allvoices.com
The Federal Reserve Abolition Act
SEC Chair Defends His Restraint During Financial Crisis - washingtonpost.com (Christopher Cox: Republicans NEVER accept responsibility for anything)
In Pictures: Affordable Health Insurance In Six Steps - Forbes.com

Ovablastic: Euler's identity
Technology Review: Tiny $10 Microscope
Women's special: How far have we come in 80 years? | Life and style | The Observer
Baltimore City Paper - Arts: The Incident - Was Bill Clinton's Affair With Monica Lewinsky Merely The Weakness of An Inveterate Horndog--or Something Else? (psychobio)
Technology NewsReel - WSJ.com - Among Dolphins, Tool-Using Handymen Are Women
The Spittoon Hidden in Plain Sight: New Genetic Discoveries Shed Light on the Spread of Farming in Eastern Europe
Harold Pinter: the most original, stylish and enigmatic writer in the post-war revival of British theatre - Telegraph
YouTube - Mr Bean in Weihnachtsstimmung
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Dakota: Merry Christmas Eve
Poll: America's honeymoon with Obama continues - CNN.com (82% - what happened to all the Palin voters?)
Image: Cheney's Delusions part of Cheney's delusions His defense of waterboarding, Guantanamo and the Iraq invasion is indeed Darth Vader-like.
#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation | Project Censored
Jonathan Freedland: Seasonal forgiveness has a limit. Bush and his cronies must face a reckoning | Comment is free | The Guardian
Dismantling the Imperial Presidency
Who Lost the Election? | The LA Progressive
Editorial - E.P.A.s Doctor No - NYTimes.com (Stephen Johnson: environmental war criminal)
The Claremont Institute - When Worlds Collide - review of The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In, by Hugh Kennedy and Gods Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215, by David Levering Lewis
Who Lost the Election? | The LA Progressive
Don't Buy From Bigots - Business List - Prop 8 Donors lists (check MA)
Balloon Juice - Compare and Contrast: Tom Friedman
The Datsun and the Shoe Tree | The American Prospect Thomas L. Freetrademan | May 21, 2000
Sadly, No! Four Feet Six Inches of Stupid - Kathy Shaidle

Book Review - 'The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath,' by Robert J. Samuelson - Review - NYTimes
Doubts grow on whether Madoff acted alone in fraud - Yahoo! News
Pope decries selfishness in economic crisis - Yahoo! News (man on gilded throne)
The Bag Lady Papers - The Daily Beast Alexandra Penney - a New York artist and former editor of Self Magazinelost her life savings in the Madoff debacle (poor baby, hasn't taken a subway in 30 years)

The lack of female Einsteins is all down to numbers - science-in-society - 24 December 2008 - New Scientist
50 Things We Know Now (We Didn't Know This Time Last Year): 2008 Edition
Lies We Tell Kids
Times Higher Education - Night's Black Agents: Witches, Wizards and the Dead in the Ancient World
Who Lost the Election? | The LA Progressive
One Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Black Market in Stolen Credit Cards
This link kills spam (email harvester bots)
Flickr: Best of Cats (Invited photos only) - VOTE NOW!!
My girlfriend farted while we were kissing should I break up with her? - Yahoo! Answers
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Daily Kos: Appreciating the Foes of Torture
Inside the Shadow Factory -- In These Times James Bamford’s important new book details America’s post-9/11 surveillance-industrial complex
Supreme Court Rules On Minnesota Senate Race: Window Closes On Norm Coleman ("It is more common for Democratic voters to make clerical errors on their absentee ballots than it is for Republicans")
The Brad Blog : The End Finally Nears in Coleman/Franken Race
Media Matters - Media run with unsourced assertion by Sun-Times columnist of "rumbles" that Emanuel "is reportedly on 21 different taped conversations" (how they make shit up)
cab drollery: Bankrupt Ideas
Did Contractor Expose Troops To Toxin?, CBS Evening News: American Soldiers Are Dying Of Lung Cancer - And May Have Been Knowingly Exposed
Police use excessive force, ER docs say - Yahoo! News

Sadhbh Walshe: Over 30 million Americans are now living on food stamps | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The idea of chief executives being bailed-out while more than 30 million Americans are living on food stamps is unappetising (you mean disgusting)
Jobless Claims Surge By 30,000 to 26-Week High - CNBC.com
Business & Technology | JPMorgan dumping WaMu's leased space in Seattle | Seattle Times Newspaper
Paul Krugman on the Return of Depression Economics - Big Think - Featured Ideas
'The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008,' by Paul Krugman - Los Angeles Times
The Big Bailout: Product of a Flawed Democracy | LiveScience

NASA - Earthrise at Christmas
Americans Believe Religion is Losing Clout (hit low in 1970)
Lessig: It's Time to Demolish the FCC | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com
Book Review of The Price of Truth - how money affects the norms of science | Logos
You Have Too Much Mail - WSJ.com Our brains, overloaded and distracted now, evolved in a simpler environment.
The new feminists: lipstick and pageants - Times Online
The 104th King William's College quiz | UK news | The Guardian
bmj.com Table of Contents (December 20 , 337 [7684])
The Greatest Love Story Ever Sold
Penguin Silent on Rosenblat Memoir - The Plank
Review: Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
At Magazines, It's 2.0 Steps Forward, 1.0 Step Back | The New York Observer
Netbook: Psion Orders Websites to Stop Using the Term Netbook
Gelf Magazine The Sex Blogger's Sex Blogger
Last Call? | Popular Science - The most definitive study yet could finally determine whether cellphone use causes cancer
Top 10 New Organisms of 2008
95 Old School Games You Can Play Online | AMOG
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Think Progress » White House: Expect more pardons from Bush.
Washington Times - Exclusive: Obama wants Bush war team to stay (like we said, he's keeping all his neocons)
Dick Cheney's unique gift for making hard questions easy and vice versa. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine Dick Cheney's unique gift for making hard questions easy and vice versa.
Exiled Online - » The Day America’s Empire Died - By Mark Ames (“Everything that the Georgians left behind, I mean everything, was American. All the guns, grenades, uniforms, boots, food rations — they just left it all") (your MSM blackout)
History of civil marriage in the U.S. - Wikipedia (Jim "I love gays" Warren: "The definition of marriage hasn't changed in 5,000 years")
Rick Warren Scrubs Anti-Gay Language From Website (no gays allowed)
E. J. Dionne Jr. - Obama's Invitation to Warren Is a Risk Worth Taking - washingtonpost.com (big tent for haters)
New York State (NY) Poll * December 23, 2008 * New York Is Semi-Sweet On Caroline - Quinnipiac University (and 50% of Republicans hate Bush)
Washingtonpost.com Executive Editor to Step Down - washingtonpost.com (brought us Ben Domenech)
Tucker Bounds... We're gonna miss you buddy - 236.com - News
Diplomatic Immunity Going Too Far: Diplomatic Impunity | Michael Crowley | Reader's Digest
Obama on Marijuana Legalization - Will Obama Legalize Marijuana? - Esquire

Calculated Risk: WSJ: Commercial Property Investors Seek Bailout
New and existing home sales fall again in November - USATODAY.com
Mad Money: Jim Cramer's Advice Slightly Worse Than A Coin Toss?
Thierry de la Villehuchet: Madoff Investor Dies After $1.4 Billion Lost (first suicide)
The Rise of the Four-Day Work Week? - BusinessWeek

Google Maps Mashup Combines Your Address, Nuclear Blast | Wired Science from Wired.com
5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year | FlowingData
Original Essay: The Not Rape Epidemic at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
Long Tail theory contradicted as study reveals 10m digital music tracks unsold - Times Online
Magnetic-Shield Cracks Found; Big Solar Storms Expected (to start in 2012: Mayans were right)
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Kennedy Declines to Make Financial Disclosure - NYTimes.com (did she think this through?)
Matthew Yglesias is shrill - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com - "a criminal enterprise launched by madmen cheered on by a chorus of fools and cowards" (PK picks up on MY's capsule summary)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Cheney says top congressional Democrats complicit in spying (like Biden)
Think Progress » Biden on prosecuting Bush officials for torture: ‘I think we should be looking forwards, not backwards.’ (moving on)
Even jury hiring is frozen - Los Angeles Times
M of A - Avraham Burg - A Gerechter
Matthew Yglesias » A Special Note Re: Third Way (“hyper-timid incrementalist bullshit” - Jennifer Palmieri sucks at the internets)
Matthew Yglesias » Third Way’s First 100 Days: Retirement Security Edition
Third Way: Board of Trustees (bunch of people you never heard of)
Talking Points Memo | Major Error in Judgment (by) Jennifer Palmieri
Open Left:: Thou Shalt Not Criticize Thy Fellow DC Democrat
Brendan Nyhan: Save Matthew Yglesias from CAP!
Daily Kos: And yes, the Third Way is a bunch of assholes who make the DLC look downright palatable.
TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Hebron Agonistes: Too Much For Israel
The National Interest - Flight of the Neocons by Jacob Heilbrunn
On Talk Radio, Conservatives Are Energized - NYTimes.com
Howard Kurtz - Mika Brzezinski, Letting Her Opinions Percolate on 'Morning Joe' and the Radio - washingtonpost.com
The Washington Monthly far-right blowhards are disappointed with the outcome of the elections, but they're thrilled about having new targets for their rage.
George F. Will - Executive Power Play Makes Congress Moot - washingtonpost.com - Making Congress Moot
The suspicious, disturbing death of election rigger Michael Connell | Columbus Indymedia Center
The Raw Story | German intel head threatens whistleblower site
Media Matters - It's official: Readers pick Cokie Roberts' "foreign, exotic" Hawaii comments as Most Inane

Gary Younge: Greed has pushed political credibility and financial trust into freefall | Comment is free | The Guardian Recent scandals in America reveal a value system that puts the wealth of a few before the welfare of many
YouTube - Benoit Mandelbrot thinks we're all screwed (Paul Soloman interview on PBS with Nassim "Black Swan" Taleb)
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Fiscal Insanity Virus Rapidly Spreading The Globe (Part 1) | (Part 2)
Stall Speed | Chris Martenson
National Press Club Luncheon Video - Paul Krugman
Obsidian Wings: Oblivious
Itv News | Bailed-Out Businessmen's Bonanza
Black Swans and Dark Matter — Crooked Timber
Bailed-Out Executives Got $1.6 Billion In 2007
Trade Barriers Toughen With Global Slump - washingtonpost.com Despite Free-Market Pledge, Many Nations Adopt Restrictive Policies
Can you afford it now? - Los Angeles Times
IMF chief warns 2009 may be 'even darker'
World faces "total" financial meltdown: Bank of Spain chief
Free Advice: Obama Raises Target to 3 Million New Jobs
Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret - Yahoo! News
The Unauthorized Biography of $200 Billion Broadband Scandal (how Bush killed the American internet)

E-Mails Reveal Cho's Troubles At Va. Tech - washingtonpost.com
Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's poorest see better | Society | The Guardian
How Opium Can Save Afghanistan - The Daily Beast
Smart kids are more likely to be heavy drinkers - Times Online - There's a link between a high IQ and developing alcohol problems
Print Article: Octopuses give eight thumbs up for high-def TV
Jupiter's Moon Plays Peekaboo With Hubble | Wired Science from Wired.com
Dr. Dobb's | Neurobiology Will Become "No-Brainer" Substitute for Software | December 16, 2008 The ability of devices to learn and adapt is in the not-too-distant future
Six Apart - Blog - TypePad and Journalism
After Credentials
Jew or Not Jew: Choosing the Chosen People
2pie: Snow Prints
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If criminal penalties are removed, what will deter lawbreaking by political officials? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Ruth Marcus/WaPo no prosecutions necessary, Republicans will voluntarily not break the law again)
Hans Blix Would Testify Against Bush-Cheney War Crimes | Democrats.com
Cheney: If President Does It During War, It's Legal
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (December 21, 2008) - The Right To Dissolve The Constitution (see, in time of war, defined by you-know-who, there's a Constitutional right to dissolve the Constitution, indefinitely)
White House Accuses NY Times Of 'Gross Negligence' In Latest Chapter Of Tense Relationship (Times finally speaks its mind)
Obama Report On Blagojevich Contacts: Rahm Exonerated (media will speculate on his innocence)
FT.com / US - Rice says Obama likely to follow Bush on foreign policy (can't escape Bush)
Chris Kelly: Is Caroline Kennedy our Sarah Palin? (no)
Huxley wept - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com Rick Warren, last year: If you’re asking me do I believe in evolution, the answer is no, I don’t. (morons elevated in our national discourse)
Biden: Cheney's Policies Have Created More Terrorists (fuckyou!)
Karl Rove Destroyed My Life - The Daily Beast Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman blames Republican dirty tricks for the nine months he spent in prison
Third Committee Draft Text Endorses Recommendations, Future Workplan Of Human Rights Council’S Working Group On Right To Development (UN votes on the right to food, 180 for, 1 against. Who was against? The United States. And you thought refusing to support decriminalizing homosexuality was bad...)
Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash: Non-Profit Demands Full Federal Investigation - Yahoo! News
General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book - Telegraph
Back to the Future with The Complex?
The Pentagon is muscling in everywhere. It's time to stop the mission creep. - washingtonpost.com
The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld. - By Hart Seely - Slate Magazine (2003)
Our Annual Top 10 Newspaper Industry Stories of the Year

The Reckoning - Bush’s Philosophy Stoked the Mortgage Bonfire - Series - NYTimes.com (really?)
Synagogue Of $Ufferers - New York Post (Members of a posh Upper East Side synagogue suffered a $2 billion bloodbath in Bernie Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme)
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide FBI Agents Shifted From Terror Work to Madoff, Subprime Probes (FBI still can't walk and chew gum)
TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | SECer: Agency "In A State Of Complete Panic" Over Madoff Revelations (shredders working overtime)
FT.com / US / Economy & Fed - Hedge funds gain access to $200bn Fed aid (bailing out the rich)
Paul Krugman's horror story: The Swamp
News from The Associated Press AP study finds $1.6B went to bailed-out bank execs (they should have been shot)
The American Conservative » The Toyota Republicans (Country First! is Japan)
Jobless rate for N.C. surges to 25-year high | CharlotteObserver.com
Golden West deal doomed Wachovia in crisis | CharlotteObserver.com
Calculated Risk: U.S. retail gasoline prices decline to $1.66 per gallon

Chycho.com - Eight major undersea Internet communication cables cut in 2008: We most definitely do live in interesting times
Scientists Hack Cellphone to Analyze Blood, Detect Disease, Help Developing Nations
EPA veils hazardous substances - JSOnline (Bush: you don't need to know what's killing you)
Skin Deep - Putting Vanity (and Botox?) on Hold - NYTimes.com
Itv News | Ancient Soil Replenishment Technique Helps In Battle Against Global Warming
Vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder runs in families, study shows
PonderAbout.com: The Great Attractor (cosmic Niagra Falls)
YouTube - Sara, 13-yrs girl, plays RUSH - YYZ with stick performance
Goethe-Institut Schiller-Rap - Schillerjahr 2009 - Der Wettbewerb - Gewinner
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Editorial - The Torture Report - NYTimes.com
Demands for war crimes prosecutions are now growing in the mainstream - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (December 15, 2008) - Reynolds Responds (InstaPundit)
Republicans get really nervous as Al Franken pulls into the lead | Crooks and Liars
at-Largely: One of my sources died in a plane crash last night... (GOP Ohio election stealing)
Arrests at Iraqi Ministry Based on a 'Big Lie,' Interior Chief Says - washingtonpost.com
Chris Matthews Eviscerates Neocon Frank Gaffney: "4,000 People Are Dead Because Of The Way You Feel" ("It is regrettable that they had to die," Gaffney said, "but I believe they did have to die") (easy to say when other people are doing the dying)
Media Matters - Media Matters: Matthews for Senate (?)
John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham - A Chance for Consensus on Iraq - washingtonpost.com (3 Stooges)
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/19/2008 | Palin soap opera: Drug in Levi's mom's case is oxycontin ("hillbilly heroin")
Prop. 8 Sponsors Seek To Nullify 18,000 Gay Marriages (pro-family Christians)
How Obama tapped into a powerful—and only recently studied—human emotion called "elevation." - By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine
TPM Election Central | Rick Warren: Syria Treats Jews Really Well
Robert Fisk’s World: One missing word sowed the seeds of catastrophe - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent No one in 1967 thought the Arab-Israeli conflict would still be in progress 41 years later (Jewish lawyering: they tried this with G-D and it didn't work out so well)
How to end the South's economic war on the North | Salon The South's attempt to kill the North's auto industry is the latest battle in an ongoing conflict. It's time for a Third Reconstruction to put an end to it.
Katrina's Hidden Race War
YouTube - Letterman's Top 10 George Bush moments

TPMMuckraker | Cox "Worked to Dismantle The SEC," Says Commission Vet (more Bush wreckage)
Profile of SEC Chief Christopher Cox - Executive Articles - Portfolio.com Under chairman Christopher Cox, the commission has undermined and demoralized its enforcement staff
SEC Report: Employees Browsed Porn, Ran Private Businesses - ProPublica (pro-business)
George's Bottom Line oe Biden said the U.S. economy is in danger of "absolutely tanking"
History Repeats Itself in Different Hues – Japan vs. United States
The Atlantic Online | December 2008 | China: “Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You Money” | James Fallows ("you have to have someone to tell you the truth")
The Reckoning - On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not Profits, Were Real - Series - NYTimes.com
On the Contrary: The Talmud, the Stock Market and Bernie the Goniff
Business & Technology | How marketing tricks you, and how to beat it | Seattle Times Newspaper

YouTube - 'Soulgasms' and the Christian War on Masturbation
YouTube - Five Biggest LIES About Christianity
Single word change in Book of Mormon speaks volumes
FORA.tv - Power & Sex: (Christian) America's War on Sexual Rights
Itv News | 'Hobbit' Fossils Represent A New Species, Concludes Anthropologist
BBC NEWS | Health | Breast cancer gene-free baby due
YouTube - Evelyn Glennie: How to listen to music with your whole body
When Jesus met Buddha - The Boston Globe
California Drones Mystery Solved By Sarah Connor Chronicles? - Screen Rant
NatGeo: Top Ten Archaeology Finds: Most Read of 2008
Healing Combat Trauma: Combat Veterans, PTSD and Domestic Violence - A Sometimes Deadly Combination
Good Math, Bad Math : Fitness Landscapes, Evolution, and Smuggling Information
PonderAbout.com The Giant Impact Theory (formation of the Moon)
Blake retrospective: Tate Britain stages 1809 show | Art and design | The Guardian
LRB · James Wolcott: Caretaker/Pallbearer The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike
The 8 Best "Drunk Jeff Goldblum" Videos - Viral Video - Videogum
How Jewish is Hollywood? - Los Angeles Times
The Explainer questions we never answered in 2008. - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine
'Seeing' The Quantum World: How A Quantum Computer Would Work
Earth's Original Ancestor Was 'LUCA' - Last Universal Common Ancestor - hyperthermophilic organism
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Think Progress » Report: Gonzales Appears To Have Lied To Congress For Rice About Vetting Bush’s Pre-War Uranium Claims (hundreds of thousands dead)
Tortured Reasoning: vanityfair.com
TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Breaking: Al Franken Takes The Lead In Minnesota Recount!
The Washington Monthly A Bad Rule
TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | The Top Dozen Insights of Conservatives, 2008
Bristol Palin's Future Mother-In-Law Arrested On Drug Charges (meth? ya think?)
Civil Liberties Examiner: Galveston police haven't apologized for beating 12-year-old girl
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/19/2008 | Most corrupt state? It may just be North Dakota. Really.
BBC NEWS | Health | People 'still willing to torture'
US Balks at Backing Condemnation of Anti-Gay Laws | CommonDreams.org
APS Observer - Replicating Milgram

President Bush: Automakers to get $17.4B - Yahoo! News (after Republicans say fuckyou to the country)
Paulson: Congress needs to release second $350B - Yahoo! Finance (with absolutely no oversight)
Krugman - The Madoff Economy - NYTimes.com
TPM: News Pages | Talking Points Memo | Madoff investors hope for bailout Wiped out Madoff investors pray for bailout as SIPC money seen too small, too long to process (rich Jews want taxpayer money)
FT.com / Companies - Banks lent billions to Madoff ‘feeder funds’
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide Madoff’s Misconduct Said to Date to 1970s as Client List Surged (the SEC at work)

Association for Psychological Science - Are Power and Compassion Mutually Exclusive?
BBC NEWS | Technology | Severed cable disrupts web access (the FLAG FEA, SMW4, and SMW3 lines, near the Alexandria cable station in Egypt, have all been cut + GO cable off Sicily)
The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com
Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits - WSJ.com (what?)
YouTube - HD videos
YouTube - Princess Bride Lightsaber Battle
How to bake a potato
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Dakota: High Tech Report
Sunlight Foundation » Yes We Can…Use Comments, Web Services on Government Web Sites
Alaska Racist Emails Against Obama On State Accounts Probed
Minnesota Recount: Franken Starting To Make Big Gains On Challenged Ballots (Nate Silver's call looking good)
Minnesota Senate recount: Latest Coleman-Franken results
35 Iraqi Officials Are Held in Raids on Key Ministry - NYTimes.com
Obama Selects Evangelist for Invocation - NYTimes.com
TPM Election Central | Obama On Rick Warren Pick: We have To Be Able To Agree To Disagree
Obama: We have to be able to agree to disagree - Funny how you only reach across the aisle when it's someone else's family, gay families in particular, getting the shaft
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Warren Invocation (on the other hand)
What's the Matter With Rick Warren? (anti-evolution, gay marriage=child rape)
Firedoglake » The Divisiveness Of the Rick Warren Choice
Media Matters - NBC's Curry repeated Warren falsehood about Prop 8 without noting it's false (liars and their media enablers)
Obama's Talking Points On Rick Warren
Clinton Foundation Donor List: Tens Of Millions Of Dollars Raised From Foreign Governments (no conflict of interest, heh)
Washington News Bureaus Are Shrinking - NYTimes.com Big News in Washington, but Far Fewer Cover It
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting » Blog Archive » Bob Kerrey, New School's 'Moderate' War Criminal
The Strange and Bizarre Story of Wallace Scarborough’s Fight Against Democracy. « Jones On Politics (bizaare Southern Republicans)
Perino Grades Political Pundits: "Zero" For Fairness
YouTube - George W. Bush's Nightmare Before Christmas

naked capitalism: New York Times Pulls Punches On Wall Street Bubble Era Pay (refuses to call looting looting)
Madoff Scandal Shaking Real Estate Industry - NYTimes.com ("Many developers had pledged their investments with Mr. Madoff as collateral for projects")
Open Left:: During the Madoff Scandal, the SEC Goes After... The National Lampoon (priorities, priorities)
Sports teams fear hit from economic crisis -- baltimoresun.com
NPR: Sports On The Skid?

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Changes 'amplify Arctic warming' Scientists say they now have unambiguous evidence that the warming in the Arctic is accelerating (too late)
Triple Helix: Designing a New Molecule of Life: Scientific American
The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com
If you send disparaging E-mails about me to someone else and I find out about it, I can and will pursue defamation charges. I have an excellent lawyer and I rather doubt you do. : WTF (Joe Clark loses at the Internet)
Scientists debunk myth that most heat is lost through head | Science | The Guardian
Architects Rule! : Real-life Dilbert manager quotes
Review: The Definitive Coast-to-Coast 3G Data Test
Featured Download: Dropbox Syncs and Backs Up Files Between Computers Instantaneously
Open Source Windows - Free, Open-Source software for Windows XP and Vista
Linux.com :: Where has my disk space gone? (du | sort -rn | head -n 20)
WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
Home Page EN | Molleindustria (Oiligarchy, Free Culture, Faith Fighter, Pedopriest)
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Bush: Job Ratings
Person of the Year 2008 - TIME - Obama
CNN Political Ticker: Rick Warren to give inaugural invocation (rightwing homophobe, Prop 8 supporter, given national stage again: change that just makes you sick or genius move by O?)
Firedoglake » Obama Selects Eliminationist Preacher Warren for Inauguration Pulpit: The Audacity of Hate
Warren To Deliver Invocation at Inaguration | Right Wing Watch Rick Warren is really just a friendlier version of James Dobson
Pam's House Blend:: Homobigot Rick Warren to deliver invocation at inauguration
Obama picks homophobe pro-'Prop 8' evangelical preacher to give the invocation at inaugural
Box Turtle Bulletin » Some of Rick Warren’s Best Friends Are Gay…
Wonk Room » Rick Warren: Stopping Evil ‘Is The Legitimate Role Of Government’
Rick Warren, Obama Invocation Choice, Causing First Real Rift With Progressives
Paul Abrams: No Choice But to Prosecute Cheney, for the Good of the Country
Bush says sacrificed free-market principles to save economy - Yahoo! News (what's wrong with this picture?)
Patrick Cockburn: Each Shoe was Worth a Thousand Words
Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers: The End of the Washington Consensus ("Austerity and “fiscal responsibility” are for other countries")
Matthews, Hitchens Lead Stirring Fight Against Pro-Torture Views Of Michael Smerconish
Tough questions for Caroline Kennedy as she leaves meeting in Syracuse - On Politics - USATODAY.com Tough questions for Caroline Kennedy as she leaves meeting in Syracuse (and no answers)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect: Speculation Journalism (Politico making shit up) OA
The Washington Monthly: Party Like It's 1999 (Republican solutions: back to the past)
Elizabeth Drew: Frost/Nixon: A Dishonorable Distortion of History
The Associated Press: Ga. judge jails Muslim woman over head scarf
Epoch Times - Bin-Laden's System to Bankroll Terrorism
Print This Article : Hawala, or The Bank That Never Was

ABC News: Morgan Stanley Is One Bank That Cites a Loan From TARP Money
Low-Interest Mortgages Are the Answer - WSJ.com (the Republican solution: reinflate the housing bubble)
The Mortgage Meltdown Video - CBSNews.com
CalPers losing 103% on its housing bets - Lansner on Real Estate - OCRegister.com
Irvine Housing Blog - Irvine Real Estate - How is OC Doing?
Madoff house arrest ordered as European banks reel - Yahoo! News
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide Madoff’s Wife Said to Be Investigated Over Ponzi Scheme Records
Warren Buffett Granddaughter - Nicole Buffett - Marie Claire - The Billionaire's Black Sheep
Children forced into cell-like school seclusion rooms - CNN.com

Salman Hameed: How to quell the rise of Muslim Creationism | Science | guardian.co.uk
Butter Holds the Secret to Cookies That Sing - NYTimes.com
Video: KickYouTubes Lets You Download Videos Without Extra Software or Hassle
Firedoglake » Inhofe Plays while the Boxer’s Away (Republican psycho-creep and his climate "report")
Death map USA: Natural disaster hotspots revealed - image 3 - environment - 17 December 2008 - New Scientist Standardised mortality ratios at county level,
Annals of Education: Most Likely to Succeed: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
HIV infects women through healthy tissue: U.S. study | U.S. | Reuters
New 'Molecular Memory' Only 10 Atoms Thick: Massive Storage Possible
Securing Firefox: How to avoid hacker attacks on Mozilla's browser | ZDNet Photo Gallery
Fimoculous.com: 2008 End-Of-Year Lists
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It's official: Barack Obama elected 44th president - Yahoo! News
Matthew Yglesias An Empire of Sentimentality - a criminal enterprise launched by madmen cheered on by a chorus of fools and cowards (esp your media)
Poll Finds Support for Obama's War Views - washingtonpost.com Less Pessimism on Iraq, But 70% Back Pullout
Nicolas Sarkozy Assassination Attempt: French President Unharmed
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Shoe thrower 'beaten in custody' (of course)
Matthew Yglesias Cohen: Online News Reading is Undermining My Sexist Stereotypes
Instaputz: Ungrateful Iraqis.
AFP: Iraqi justice to probe case of Bush shoe assailant Iraqi justice to probe case of Bush shoe assailant (more interrogation to find out "who's behind this")
TheHill.com - Cheney says waterboarding was appropriate ("it would be very unfortunate if the incoming administration were to roll back some of the programs")
American Civil Liberties Union : Court Rules Patriot Act's "National Security Letter" Gag Provisions Unconstitutional (this is big)
Alex Jones' Infowars: Marine Military Presence Confirmed in San Bernardino County
Big brother is NOT watching you: Cash-strapped towns leave CCTV cameras unmonitored | Mail Online

FRB: Press Release--FOMC statement--December 16, 2008 The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to establish a target range for the federal funds rate of 0 to 1/4 percent.
ZIRP! - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Why Didn't SEC Look Closer At Madoff?
S.E.C. Image Suffers in a String of Setbacks - NYTimes.com (Christopher Cox: your Republican SEC at work)
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide Housing Starts in U.S. Fell 18.9% to 625,000 Pace
Michigan Messenger Changes in bank bailout plan avoids executive salary restrictions

BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Rom-coms 'spoil your love life' Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life
YouTube - "The View"--Elisabeth Hasselbeck Attacks Evolution (idiot on parade)
YouTube - Billy Connolly on Catholicism and Sarah Palin
Microsoft: Big Security Hole in All IE Versions - Security Fix
Internet Explorer Data Binding Memory Corruption Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories
Virustotal. MD5: 06834a694e541347a6c8f09c5e1f858c TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen Suspicious File Malicious Software
YouTube - Ian Freeman arrested and jailed for 93 days (93 days in jail for taking 6 seconds to sit down) | Free Keene Couch Court Audio & Orders ("justice" Edward J Burke, Keene NH)
Couple who add rock dust to barren soil develop process into export business | UK news | The Observer
Arctic Ice Melt Of Over Two Trillion Tons Has Occurred Since 2003
Conceptual Trends and Current Topics: Unthinkable Futures
TNH FTW! A final post and a question for you. - Boing Boing
Dinosaur Killer May Have Been Volcanism, Not Asteroid - Yahoo! News
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraq rally for Bush shoe attacker
12-11-2008 - Levin, McCain Release Executive Summary and Conclusions of Report on Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody : Senator Carl Levin: News Release
Dan Froomkin - Pack of Liars - washingtonpost.com
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Architect Of Abu Ghraib (Bush) | The Media Yawns - Even PBS demanded that guests not use the word torture to decribe torture
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Senate report links Bush to detainee homicides; media yawns
Itv News | Bush On Al Qaeda Not Existing In Iraq Before Invasion: So What?
The Raw Story | US Supreme Court orders Guantanamo torture case review
Obama: No Blagojevich Contact, No "Inappropriate Discussions"
Cheney: Obama Will "Appreciate" Our Expansion Of Power ("We did not exceed our constitutional authority, as some have suggested")
Which state is the most corrupt - Illinois or Louisiana? - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
The Raw Story | Coulter: Minnesota Senate race 'being openly stolen'
Tapes have potential witnesses speaking out :: Chicago Sun-Times :: Gov. Blagojevich
Tapped Archive | The American Prospect: Rick Warren Doth Protest Too Much: I'M Not A Homophobe (gay marriage=incest, pedophilia, polygamy, but he's not anti-gay)
U.N. Rights Investigator Turned Away by Israel - NYTimes.com
Israel's merry band of Klansmen, the extreme right - Haaretz - Israel News
Turks apologize for Armenian massacres - Europe- msnbc.com - Prominent intellectuals show regret online for World War I-era atrocities
MWC News - A Site Without Borders - - Arundhati Roy: 9 Is Not 11 (on India-Pakistan, Mumbai is not 9/11, Kashmir: info not in US media)
Tomgram: Arundhati Roy, The Monster in the Mirror

Economic crisis of 2008 - Wikipedia (otherwise known as "the Bush Crash")
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/15/2008 | Business bankruptcies keep rising; no relief in sight
Limits on Executive Pay May Prove Toothless - washingtonpost.com Loophole in Bailout Provision Leaves Enforcement in Doubt (who could have predicted?)
States Funds for Jobless Are Drying Up - NYTimes.com (Benefits funds in two states, Indiana and Michigan, have already dried up)
The 17th Floor, Where Wealth Went to Vanish - NYTimes.com
Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme: Victim List Grows
TPMMuckraker | SEC Didn't Probe Madoff's Investment Biz -- Despite Complaints
Bloomberg.com: U.S. Fairfield Sent Madoff $7.3 Billion as Funds Took Fees (made 11%, nice due diligence, guys)
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide Madoff Said to Use Unregistered Side-Unit for Clients
Prominent Jewish foundations shut down due to Madoff Wall Street affair - Haaretz - Israel News
New Bubble, Same Old Frauds - Forbes.com Enron and Worldcom, Madoff and Dreier. Is anyone really surprised?
Talking Points Memo | Don't We Have Laws ... (Paulson lied to Congress)
Economic Scene - Figure Skews Debate of a Bailout for Detroit - NYTimes.com - $73 an Hour: Adding It Up (union-busting propaganda)
history.gif (national debt since 1940)
M of A - Stimuli And Global Balance
Nobel Economist Says More Stable Currency Needed
TPMMuckraker | Schumer Helped Block Regulation Of Ratings Agencies (wy to go, Chuckie, you screwed the whole country)
After the Crash: How Software Models Doomed the Markets: Scientific American Overreliance on financial software crafted by physics and math PhDs helped to precipitate the Wall Street collapse
Books of The Times - In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson Argues That Financial Systems Drive History - Review - NYTimes.com
Hackers 'Responsible' for 546m of Illegal Deforestation in the Amazon
The author of the MPG illusion on why we misunderstand the meaning of miles per gallon (and why we shouldnt completely hate the hybrid Cadillac Escalade)

Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web - WSJ.com
Pixies, Sheilas, Dirtbags and Cougar Bait: Modern Slang
An index of promiscuity | Sex and the citizen | The Economist Where people are most, and least, promiscuous
More Americans Believe in the Devil, Hell and Angels than in Darwin's Theory of Evolution - MarketWatch - Nearly 25% of Americans Believe They Were Once another Person
Letter From West Hollywood: Special Treatment: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker The rise of luxury rehab.
Google Blasts WSJ, Still 'Committed' to Net Neutrality | Epicenter from Wired.com
When Justice Got Bonged: Mary Beth Buchanan Vs. Tommy Chong | BuzzFlash.org (crazed Bush prosecutor spent $12million to entrap Chong)
The Story Of Tommy Chong - What The Feds Don't Want You To See
Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity - Rewiring the Creative Mind | Fast Company
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Cargo cult lives on in South Pacific (A Christian youth worker said: "Those people are holding on to a dream that will never come true")
Itv News | Supermassive Black Hole Dissected With Natural Magnifying Glasses: 1,000 Times Clearer Than Best Telescopes Can Do
Good news for wind, bad for ethanol in major energy study
The Yawn Explained: It Cools Your Brain : Discovery News
'Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963,' by Susan Sontag -- New York Magazine Book Review
TweakGuides.com - PC Game Piracy Examined
YouTube - Bill Clinton - The Final Days
The Ungroundable (South Park)
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Bush Visits Iraq For Final Time
Iraqi Throws Shoes At Bush Press Conference ("This Is A Goodbye Kiss, You Dog"...)
Bush Defends Iraq War During a Farewell Visit - washingtonpost.com - Iraqi Journalist Hurls Two Shoes at Bush During Press Conference With Al-Maliki
Troops to Stay Longer in Iraq as Support, U.S. Says - NYTimes.com
Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders - NYTimes.com (My friend, Mr. Rumsfeld replied, if you think were going to spend a billion dollars of our money over there, you are sadly mistaken")
Obsidian Wings: Details, Details (complete stupidity of our military leaders)
Jesus' General: From the White House to a Whites-Only House? George W. Bush Goes Home From the White House to a Whites-Only House? George W. Bush Goes Home
Record Breaking 131 Million Voted In November Foolocracy
Op-Ed Columnist - Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich - Editorial - NYTimes.com
Washington Wire - WSJ.com : The Real Story Behind the Rushed Blagojevich Bust: How the Feds Are Frustrated by Losing (Maybe) Half of Their Case
Hugh Muir: The jury should have been allowed to consider a verdict of unlawful killing in the inquest of Jean Charles de Menezes | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The jury should have been allowed to consider a verdict of unlawful killing. The inquest was meaningless
Iraq's reconstruction a 100-billion failure: report - Yahoo! News (but no money for Detroit)
Glenn Greenwald Talks To Bill Moyers About The Rule of Law | Crooks and Liars our highest political officials are free to break the most serious laws that we have (Republican lawnorder for other people)
Associated Baptist Press - Judge halts Christian-themed South Carolina license plates (theocrats)
David Gregory - Dickipedia - A Wiki of Dicks
It's a Wolff hunt for angry Judith Regan over Rupert Murdoch bio . "He's a repulsive specimen." (TOTKO)
AP: Many Insisting That Obama Is Not Black
Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Ramstad's Earmark Problem (O's Drugz Czar maybe pick: rightwing Christianist who "completes" Jews and hates needle exchanges: change you won't notice)

Talking Points Memo | So Different?
Bloomberg.com: U.S. Bernard Madoffs One Big Lie Drew Investors: Table
Is the Madoff Scandal the Story of the Year? (with links)
The Madoff Unit: A new metric for the Big Shitpile | Corrente
The End of Wall Street's Boom - Portfolio.com - by Michael Lewis (author of Liar's Poker: history of modern financial greed and stupidity: if this isn't evil, what is?)
Op-Ed Columnist - Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich - Editorial - NYTimes.com ("Its a sad snapshot of our centurys establishment that Rubin has been an economic adviser to Barack Obama and Gramm to John McCain.")
The Reckoning - Series - The New York Times
Daily Kos: Hartmann Eloquently Defends American Workers our perilous economic situation is the direct result of Reaganomics.
Bad Economy Hits Green Companies Hard | Newsweek Project Green | Newsweek.com Despite all their promise, green companies are awash in red ink.
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 12/14/2008 | GOP hangs tight on taxes as red ink rises - the state's minority party tries to squeeze a spending cap and pro-business policies from fiscal chaos.

The Rag Blog: The Vatican: Working Their Way Back in Time Will a New Vatican Document Affect Science and Reproductive Health?
Politics: Meg Whitman, homophobe (eMeg, supported Prop 8, wants to be CA gov)
Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers - David Horvitz | Essay - Consider the Philosopher - After the Death of David Foster Wallace - NYTimes.com
Memories of the Skokie that was -- chicagotribune.com Writer Howard Reich, a child of Holocaust survivors, recalls the joys and torments of the town of his youth
Nuclear reaction: Cast, crew of 'The Day After' reunite for 25th anniversary of film shot in Lawrence, KC
YouTube - ABC News Viewpoint - "The Day After" (Part 1, 1983)
FCC cancels meeting for free Internet vote | Wireless - CNET News
Falling in Love is Now Called Rape in America as teens by the thousands end up in jail for having consensual sex with their girlfriends.
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amazon.com: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008: Dave Eggers, Judy Blume: Books
Playboy Virgin Mary Cover Sparks Outrage In Mexico
Can a cat and a rabbit ever find happiness?
Bird Watcher's General Store
12x12 Tic-Tac-Toe
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Carter hopes for early Obama peace push in Mideast | Politics | Reuters
Bush's Final F.U. : Rolling Stone The administration is rushing to enact a host of last-minute regulations that will screw America for years to come
False flags attacks common but rarely reported in the corporate media
Media Matters - Media Matters: Media pick up where they left off 8 years ago (your liberal media at work)