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063010
ACLU launches "Spyfiles" to track domestic surveillance - The Hill
More About Spy Files | American Civil Liberties Union
Russian spy ring: 11th suspect arrested in Cyprus; Moscow calls spy claims 'baseless and improper' (and a distraction from Afganistan)
NYT: Alleged spy ring — thriller or sitcom? - The New York Times - msnbc.com - The charges did not include espionage; the 10 suspects were charged with failing to register as foreign agents (sort of like Mexicans)
Anna Chapman: One of the alleged Russian spies arrested by the FBI
CBC News - Toronto - Chief admits 5-metre G20 security rule didn't exist Toronto's police chief is admitting there never was a five-metre rule that had people fearing arrest if they strayed too close to the G20 security perimeter (but 900 arrested anyway)
Toronto Police to review G20 response - The Globe and Mail
BBC News - Blair to receive US peace medal Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is to receive a prestigious US medal and $100,000 (£67,000) prize for his work in conflict resolution (and helping to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people)

Researchers find evidence of oil spill in Gulf's food chain | gulflive.com (you can eat oil)
Rough Seas From Hurricane Alex 2010 Pushing Oil Closer To Gulf Coast Beaches
BP Oil Spill Cleanup Did Not Consider Hurricanes
Sen. Menendez Scores Important Victory In Lifting BP's Liability Cap (call Haley Barbour)
Avertible catastrophe Nearly oil-free isn't good enough for the U.S. regulators, who have a standard of 15 parts per million -- if water isn't at least 99.9985% pure, it may not be returned to the Gulf of Mexico. (therefore ...)
Biologists find 'dead zones' around BP oil spill in Gulf | Environment | The Guardian Methane at 100,000 times normal levels have been creating oxygen-depleted areas devoid of life near BP's Deepwater Horizon spill, according to two independent scientists
NewsDaily: Special Report: BP oil spill a gusher for lawyers
Health of Exxon Valdez cleanup workers was never studied | McClatchy

Israel's anti-boycott belligerence | Miri Weingarten | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk A bill seeking to outlaw boycotts of Israeli institutions and products – including in settlements – is diplomatically explosive (back in your face)
Pope slams cardinal who exposed abuse cover-up

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Research 2000 Issues Cease & Desist Letter to FiveThirtyEight (Nate says "fuck you")
Hullabaloo: Family Values - According to Sharon Angle, God wants fathers to rape their daughters. Or at least he wants daughters to bear their fathers' children. That's what they call family values in her neck of the woods (pro-rape Republicans)
Pelosi To Boehner: You're Not Taking My Gavel
Joe Scarborough: John Boehner 'Not The Hardest Worker,' Bar Hopper (video)
Vacation Interruptus - Swampland - TIME.com , Greenwald--who, so far as I can tell, only regards the United States as a force for evil in the world (crap from JokeLine - defending the indefensible)
talking head like a hole « the crow (2008, and it's still the same)
Stewart: Blame Clinton, Not Bush (video)
Big Brother Inc. | Politics | Vanity Fair Knowing your business is big business for Aristotle Inc., whose Orwellian database of voter records has been an essential campaign tool for every president since Ronald Reagan.

The CEPR Deficit Calculator
Unemployment: Congress Has Never Before Dropped Extended Benefits With Jobless Rate So High (deficit hawks at work)
a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/2010/06/new-expectations-estimates-from-the-cleveland-fed/">Matthew Yglesias » New Expectations Estimates From the Cleveland Fed
Economy: Lawmakers are putting U.S. recovery at risk - latimes.com Although reform efforts are moving ahead, the nation's fragile rebound is being threatened by fiscal stimulus cuts.
Goldman admits it had bigger role in AIG deals | McClatchy Goldman Sachs now says that it also used its own money to make secret wagers against the U.S. housing market.
s Barcelona’s Metro Continues Its Expansion at a Relatively Cheap Price « The Transport Politic (can-do America can't, only good for fightning wars and making rich people richer)

Does national IQ depend on parasite infections? Er… | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Do Parasites Make You Dumber? - ScienceNOW
Airport body scanners deliver radiation dose 20 times higher than first thought | Mail Online
Hospital May Have Exposed Hundreds Of Veterans To HIV (VIDEO) A hospital in Missouri may have exposed hundreds of veterans to the HIV and Hepatitis C viruses.
The rise of the new agnostics. - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine At least we know what we don't know - "Why is there something rather than nothing?" (now that you mention it ...)
Maslow’s Pyramid Gets a Makeover | Miller-McCune Online (highest need: become a suburban parent with an SUV)
Renovating the Pyramid of Needs — Perspectives on Psychological Science
Attention, perversely assertive women! You are abnormal! : Pharyngula
Medical Ethics: Prenatal Dexamethasone Use Questioned - time
The Last Psychiatrist: Are Certain Behaviors-- And Jobs-- More Masculine? And Out Of Our Control? ("wouldn't you know it, all the best derivatives traders are lesbians")
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency: A paradigm for prenatal diagnosis and treatment. [Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010] - PubMed result

Not So Neighborly Associations Foreclosing On Homes : NPR In many states it is not difficult for an HOA to foreclose on a member's home for past dues even if the amount owed is just a few hundred dollars
Tea Party Jesus: Blog Puts Words Of Conservatives In The Mouth Of Christ ("Christians")
An Unfunny Joel Stein Walks Into Some Cow Dung - Sepia Mutiny

Eating Well On $1 A Day - Grocery Coupon Guide
The Minimalist - 101 Fast Recipes for Grilling - NYTimes.com


062910
New Statesman - Why the Taliban is winning in Afghanistan - William Dalrymple - Certainly it is becoming clearer than ever that the once-hated Taliban, far from being swept away by General Stanley McChrystal's surge, are instead regrouping, ready for the final act in the history of Hamid Karzai's western-installed puppet government
Stanley McChrystal Retiring From The Army After Firing By Obama
Petraeus Senate Confirmation: General Faces Questions From War-Weary Lawmakers Petraeus also promised to "look very hard" at the rules of engagement governing troops in Afghanistan, if confirmed as the war's next top commander (no more Mr Nice Guy not blowing up civilians)
BBC News - Viewpoint: Ending wars peacefully just got harder The US Supreme Court ruled last week that giving support to groups listed as terrorist is illegal, even if that support is designed to end violence (America does not want to end violence anywhere)
Salon exclusive: Choice plots at Arlington reserved for VIPs - Arlington National Cemetery Investigation - Salon.com How top officials at Arlington National Cemetery violated Army guidelines -- and may have broken the law

Mexican Candidate for Governor Is Assassinated - NYTimes.com killed along with at least four others Monday morning in a brazen attack, rattling a nation already alarmed by surging drug violence.
Made in his own image: The Catholic Church faces another scandal - Faith, Opinion - The Independent Pope Benedict's papal career risks being eclipsed by the dark shadow of John Paul's legacy (very evil Saint)

YouTube - BP Slick Covers Dolphins and Whales.mov (good job, Americans!) w
The New Yorker (cover nails it)

The Washington Monthly - What Did Thurgood Marshall Ever Do To The GOP? (besides being Black?)
Daily Kos: More on Research 2000 (Kos retracts ALL Research 2000 polls ... at least the numbers were released)
Daily Kos: Research 2000: Problems in plain sight
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Pollster Ratings v4.0: Results
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: My Own Suspicions About Research 2000
Kos Alleges Top Pollster Provided Bogus Data, Will Sue | TPMMuckraker

Scott Brown: No on FinReg | FDL News Desk
Matt Taibbi: Lara Logan, You Suck -- RollingStone.com - True, the Pentagon does have perhaps the single largest public relations apparatus on earth – spending $4.7 billion on P.R. in 2009 alone and employing 27,000 people (holy shit +fire some more teachers)
Matt Taibbi's Lara Logan Takedown: 'Lara Logan, You Suck'
Idaho GOP Approves Far-Right Platform: Repeal 17th Amendment, Buy Gold And Silver | TPMDC (withhold Federal Taxes which will really work because Utah gets $1.07 back for every Fed tax dollar)
The Tax Foundation - Federal Taxing and Spending Benefit Some States, Leave Others Paying Bill (Red States are welfare queens and should all be drug-tested)
GAO Study Finds Improper Burrowing During Bush Years | TPMMuckraker
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Chait Bait: World Cup As Popular As World Series ... As many people watched the U.S.-Ghana Round of 16 match as did the average World Series game last year

^TNX: 2.99 -0.47 (-13.60%) : CBOE Interest Rate 10-Year T-No - Yahoo! Finance - 2.99% (quick, fire some teachers!)
Calculated Risk: Ireland: Austerity in Action As the Irish government cut the budget, the economy contracted faster and the deficit as a percent of GDP increased.
A Terrible Ugliness Is Born - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com Liz Alderman offers an excellent, if depressing, portrait of Ireland in austerity ... the invisible bond vigilantes are about to strike
Learned Helplessness In Macro - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com It’s only if you’re committed to a failed research project — a project that failed a generation ago, but refused to admit it — that you’re baffled.
A Year in Foreclosures: Bank-Owned Properties (most of America)
Worst chart I've seen all day | Media Matters for America (Fox vs Reality)
21 Things You Should Never Buy New - Yahoo! Finance

Bering in Mind: One reason why humans are special and unique: We masturbate. A lot
When Intuition And Math Probably Look Wrong - Science News
Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'

Yes on Prop 19: Marijuana Legalization Gets its Number in California | Elections
Poll: More Americans accepting of gay marriage - ContraCostaTimes.com Americans' support for the moral acceptability of homosexual relationships crossed the symbolic 50 percent threshold in 2010, while the percentage of Americans who say such relationships are immoral dropped to 43 percent, the lowest in Gallup's decade-long survey.
Supreme Court Ruling: Obama Is Not Coming for Your Guns - The Daily Beast Americans right now live in a country that is taxed less and has fewer restrictions on gun ownership than it did under George W. Bush.
Carol Brey-Casiano Tells a Patriot Act Story (stupid and bullies)
Police Blackout - Reason Magazine Law enforcement agencies in Northern Virginia say you have no right to know what they’re doing.
FOXNews.com - Teacher Chides Girl, 12, for Wearing Mexico Shirt in School, Activist Says (but they can't mention the insane racist teacher's name?)
Historypin

Full List - Best Blogs of 2010 - TIME
In Suit Over Faulty Computers, Window to Dell’s Fall - NYTimes.com
Google says China censorship a free trade issue - SFGate
IPAM Freeware

062810
Robert Byrd DEAD: West Virginia Democrat Was Longest Serving Senator In History
10 Alleged Russian Secret Agents Arrested For Spying, Justice Department Says
House Dems, Citing Corruption, Block Reconstruction Funds For Afghanistan
Lara Logan Slams Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone Over McChrystal Article (video) Kurtz asked Logan if there is an "unspoken agreement that you're not going to embarrass [the troops] by reporting insults and banter." "Absolutely," she said (CBS: propaganda outlet for US military +Christ, what an asshole)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com These two segments should be put into a museum, or a journalism class, to illustrate what journalism is supposed to be (Hastings' views) and what it has actually degenerated into (Logan's) ... she drops the neutral journalist mask and shows her Bill Kristol face, and actually spat: "Michael Hastings has never served his country the way McChrystal has." (and there you have it)
The Media Equation - Hijacking Rolling Stone’s McChrystal Article - NYTimes.com (Time, Politco are content pirates, file under professional journalistic ethics)
Obama won't charge Blackwater with violation of Sudan sanctions - Yahoo! News Had the company been indicted, it could have been suspended from doing business with the U.S. government (and we wouldn't want that to happen)
Fun and games with the "terrorism" label - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (it's anything Obama wants it to be +Livni/Solomon and Irgun)
Glenn Greenwald & Dylan Ratigan on Targeting American Citizens for Assassination | FDL Action And again, if you justify that — targeting American citizens for assassination without any due process – what don’t you approve of?
YouTube - Dennis Kucinich - End the Wars. Bring our Troops Home.

Oil spill: Is Gulf safe for swimming? | pnj.com | Pensacola News Journal (no)
Think Progress » BP Slick Reached Mississippi While Haley Barbour Went Fundraising In Washington
Oil spill makes first landfall on Mississippi mainland, hits Alabama beaches | al.com
BP Oil Spill Reporting: Media Lessons - The Monroe County Tourist Development Council announced Friday it will receive $400,000 for an advertising campaign to counter the misconception that the Gulf oil spill is fouling Florida Keys beaches and waters.” (who ya gonna believe, our ads or yer lyin' eyes?)
Judicial Ethics in the Gulf: Judge Feldman’s Conflicts and DOJ Malpractice | Emptywheel (worse than you thought)
Commentary: Meet Joe Barton, R-Big Oil | McClatchy

Supreme Court Extends Rights Of Gun Owners Across The Country
Chicago Gun Ban Axed After Violent Weekend: At Least 29 Shot, 3 Dead In Weekend Shootings
Christian Group Can't Bar Gays, Get Funding At Hastings College, Court Says
Adam Serwer Archive | The American Prospect | Sargent On Weigel - ""This is really about the serial stupidity of allowing these bloggers to trade on the name of the Washington Post." (irony)

Krugman - The Third Depression - NYTimes.com - And who will pay the price for this triumph of orthodoxy? The answer is, tens of millions of unemployed workers, many of whom will go jobless for years, and some of whom will never work again. (the rich always win)
The Invisible Bond Vigilantes Continue Their Invisible Attack - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Scott Brown May Oppose Wall Street Bill Despite Bay State Buy-Off (oh, Lucy moved the football again! oh my!)

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy | Redistributing knowledge: André Markowicz, writer and translator By the time he finished the mammoth undertaking in 2002 he had proved something: what people had been reading by Dostoyevsky wasn’t Dostoyevsky.
Philip H. Howard | Information Graphics - Organic Food Production
Jesus Died on a Tree Trunk? | The Atlantic Wire
Why We Dream | Solving Problems While We Sleep | LiveScience one purpose for dreaming itself may be to help us find solutions to puzzles that plague us during waking hours.

Jon Burge case: Silence is no longer an option - chicagotribune.com (torture by Chicago cops)
News Analysis - Chicago News Cooperative - Verdict in Burge Trial Will Not Bring Issue to a Close - NYTimes.com

The State of the Internet Operating System - O'Reilly Radar
Email… Not “E-mail”: Yahoo Creates Style Guide for Web Content
Apple vs Adobe: Are Apple’s MacOS/X Graphics Drivers to Blame « (yes)

062710
Leon Panetta: There May Be Less Than 50 Al Qaeda Fighters In Afghanistan (could have given them each $20 billion and their own hedge-funds)
We Spend $1 Billion/Year Fighting Each al Qaeda Member in Afghanistan | Emptywheel
Feinstein: If Petraeus Wants Afghanistan Troop Drawdown Scrapped, 'Give It To Him, Absolutely' (the endless war just got longer)
Americans Growing Weary Of Endless War - the percentage of Americans who disapprove of Obama’s Afghan policy has nearly doubled in four months
The Real News From The McChrystal Interview: The Troops Aren’t Happy
Op-Ed Columnist - The 36 Hours That Shook Washington - NYTimes.com
Afghan Hawalas Transfer Billions Out of Country - WSJ.com U.S. investigators believe top Afghan officials and their associates are sending billions of diverted U.S. aid and logistics dollars and drug money to financial safe havens abroad

G-20 Protests In Toronto (photos)
G-20 Protests: Police Arrest Hundreds In Toronto
Hullabaloo: digby: Making Their Move - The insanity continues - Apparently all we "small people" need to be taught a lesson in responsible fiscal management and we're going to get it by sacrificing the dreams and futures of millions of people
G-20 Leaders Pledge To Halve Deficits By 2013

US Joint Chiefs Chair’s Close Alliance With the IDF | Firedoglake (Mullen: “I always try to see the threats and the challenges from an Israeli perspective.”)
US-Israeli relations suffer 'tectonic rift' - Telegraph A senior Israeli diplomat has warned

No skimmers in sight as oil floods into Mississippi waters | McClatchy
Mississippi officials slam Coast Guard as BP oil hits shores | McClatchy Barbour, who once confidently predicted that the oil would skirt Mississippi, rushed back to the state on Friday from a fundraising tour he was making on behalf of Republican candidates (priorities, now he's crying for Big Gov to help with what he said wasn't a problem)
Obama orders firms to change drill plans that mimic BP's | McClatchy (shamed by McClatchy)

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Authors - The Atlantic The press corps is toting water-pistols, and so armed, merrily carousing with the very people they claim to cover. But Ezra Klein is the scourge of the North.
Senator Robert Byrd Hospitalized, 'Seriously Ill'
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's Immigration Comments Draw Fierce Criticism that most illegal immigrants enter the United States to smuggle drugs rather than seek work have prompted a wave of criticism. But Brewer is standing by her comments

Republicans are Undercutting National Economic Recovery -- and Dems Need to Say So 24/7 | TPMCafe (they won't, and Obama is a "terrible salesman")
America Speaks in LA – They Want Economic Recovery, No Social Security Cuts | FDL News Desk (contrary to Republican propaganda)
Editorial Notebook - The Cheap Cost of Cheating the Lowest Paid - NYTimes.com
In Colorado, Pot-Selling Pioneers Try to Turn a Profit - NYTimes.com

File:Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide-en.svg - Wikipedia (all you need to know about AGW in one pic)
What the Earth Knows: an article by Robert B. Laughlin | The American Scholar You get a long way toward understanding geologic time by just disciplining yourself to use your common sense.
BBC News - Mars' entire surface was shaped by water
Save a Whale, Save a Soul, Goes the Cry - NYTimes.com
Studied - College Students Are Found to Have Less Empathy - NYTimes.com college students today are 40 percent less empathetic than those of 30 years ago, with the numbers plunging primarily after 2000 ... authors speculate a millennial mixture of video games, social media, reality TV and hyper-competition have left young people self-involved, shallow and unfettered in their individualism and ambition.
When Chimpanzees Go on the Warpath - NYTimes.com
Did Bill Clinton have anything to do with our definition of sex? only 20 percent of those students considered oral-genital contact to be sex, compared with nearly 40 percent of a similar group of students surveyed in 1991.

4 Pinoys lose US jobs for speaking in Tagalog | ABS-CBN News | Latest Philippine Headlines, Breaking News, Video, Analysis, Features Four Filipina ex-staffers of a Baltimore City hospital haven’t gotten over the shock of being summarily fired from their jobs, allegedly because they spoke Pilipino during their lunch break (one word on lunch break will get you fired)
Breastfeeding is 'creepy', says parenting magazine | Life and style | The Observer Mother & Baby's deputy editor, Kathryn Blundell, shocks mums and midwives with pro-formula milk confessio

Ohio 6-Year-OId Alyssa Thomas Turns Up on Terror Watch List he worst thing his daughter has ever done is probably been mean to her sister.

Apple Retina Display – Jonesblog
Free Technology for Teachers: Five Real-time Search Engines for You to Try
Disillusioned Facebook users quit social-networking site - Los Angeles Times They say what started as a personal, close-knit community turned into an alienating experience.
5 Bummers About Apple iPhone 4 - Mobile - IT Channel News by CRN
Top 10 Clever Google Voice Tricks

062610
Closing Guantánamo Fades as a Priority - NYTimes.com (that was then)
Guantanamo and presidential priorities - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Guantanamo -- the closing of which was one of Obama's central campaign promises -- will still be open as of 2013, by which point many of the detainees will have been imprisoned for more than a decade without charges of any kind and without any real prospect for either due process or release, at least four of those years under a President who was elected on a commitment to close that camp and restore the rule of law (don't look back)
How many Americans are targeted for assassination? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (you won't know until it's too late)
News Analysis - The President Reasserts His Authority - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist - Worse Than a Nightmare - NYTimes.com , the fiercest counterinsurgency advocates in the military will tell you that something on the order of 10 to 15 years of hard effort would be required for this strategy to bear significant fruit (which is exactly what your endless-war military wants)

Black-clad protesters clash with G20 police - CTV News
The Saturday Profile - Icelander’s Campaign Is a Joke, Until He’s Elected - Biography - NYTimes.com Mr. Gnarr needed a coalition partner, but ruled out any party whose members had not seen all five seasons of “The Wire.” (he's got point)
On Religion - A Resurgence for American Jews Who Reject Zionism - NYTimes.com
NYT describes Jewish terrorism as ‘romantic’
Think Progress » New York Times Reporter On Zionist Terrorism: ‘It Was A More Romantic Era’ (Tzipi Livni and Deborah Solomon reveal their unconscious bias)
Israel/Palestine: Is Two-State solution realistic anymore? - The Something Awful Forums

BP Oil Spill Effect on Wildlife - G4tv.com (journalism done right)
Road Sign Rage Against BP Oil Spill - Newsweek
Louisiana Wants U.S. Help, and Its Own Way - NYTimes.com (Jindal: Gov eat my cake and have it too)
Editorial - What the Gulf Can’t Afford - NYTimes.com The judge, who owns stock in oil-related companies, described oil and gas drilling as “elemental” to gulf communities and said he was certain a higher court would find the moratorium “arbitrary and capricious.”
Gulf Oil Spill Time-Lapse Video From NASA Satellites Is Haunting (video)
La. Police Doing BP's Dirty Work [Video] | Mother Jones Everyone knows by now that BP is still blocking press access to oil-spill sites even though they're not supposed to anymore ... Major Malcolm Wolfe of the sheriff's office says the deputy's pulling someone over in his official vehicle while working for a private company is standard and acceptable practice, because Wheelan was acting suspicious and could have been a terrorist (bet they see alot of those)
A Gulf gale might halt BP oil collection efforts for two weeks | McClatchy
Stupak: BP Won't Let Congress Talk To Key Employees He also said he isn't ready to issue subpoenas yet (well, fuck you then)
Johann Hari: We Are All Trapped in a Global Oil Slick

Charles Blow - Take the Long View - NYTimes.com (Obama tanking, has totally re-vitalized Republicans, but white people are dying off +Obama a "terrible salesman")
Jan Brewer: Most Illegal Immigrants Are Smuggling Drugs (dog-whistle for "brown")
Follow-up on the weak, impotent, helpless presidency - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Rachel Maddow: Obama getting a lot done (compared to Reagan)
Palin Drama: Live Mic Left On, Reporters Call Palin "Dumbest of Dumb"
GOP Rep: Hezbollah Partners With Drug Cartels To Infiltrate America's Southern Border | TPMMuckraker Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) (R-Nutcase)
Green Party blocked from Texas ballot Democrats contended that a petition drive to put Green candidates on the ballot was actually an effort to help Perry, a Republican, by diverting votes from his Democratic challenger Bill White (Texas Republicans at work)
Weigelgate: Jeff Goldberg's Jealousy | TPMCafe My guess is that Goldberg's whole take on Weigel is just a product of his jealously of the 26 year old Klein who is now a Post columnist, a famous blogger, a television personality, and, did I say 26. Klein better watch his back. Goldberg has e-mails, and he'll use them
Second Thoughts on Dave Weigel - National - The Atlantic (Goldberg: everything is always all about Israel)

Wall Street CEOs Are Nuts « The Baseline Scenario “Geithner’s team spent much of its time during the debate over the Senate bill helping Senate Banking Committee chair Chris Dodd kill off or modify amendments being offered by more-progressive Democrats (pro-business Obama at work)
Ben Nelson Is Bored With Unemployment Already | Firedoglake “15 million people unemployed,” she stressed, “is an emergency.” Not so, according to Ben Nelson. “I don’t buy that distinction,” Nelson said yesterday. “At some point, it ceases to be an emergency. It’s ongoing…I think the bill should be paid for.” (10% unemployment A-OK with conserva-fucks)
How The Financial Reform Bill Affects Your Everyday Life (until the next TBTF crisis)
Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Tripled In Last Three Decades, New Data Show — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Republicans at work)

SPACE.com -- Rare Hole In the Moon Photographed
Scientific Journals Are Bad for Science | The Atlantic Wire
We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education (crap research published by super-expensive journals)
Court Upholds Denial of ICR Degrees : Dispatches from the Culture Wars ("low-quality" research)
AFP: Study indicates life was possible all over Mars Conditions suitable for life -- most notably the presence of water -- may once have existed all over Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) has said.
New Nicaraguan sign language shows how language affects thought | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

U.S. Childlessness Up Amid Demographic Shift - CBS News Nearly 1 in 5 American women beyond childbearing years never gave birth as fewer couples, particularly higher-educated whites, view having children as necessary to a good marriage (+they didn't have $500K per child lying around) ("Government Projects that U.S. Minorities Will Become Majority by Mid-Century" bye-bye Repubicans)
Mark Hyman, MD: 9 Steps to Reverse Dementia and Memory Loss As You Age
Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox: Welcome: 22 Questions for Cardinal Ratzinger and the Silver Lining in the Election of this first Grand Inquisitor as Pope

Coming in 2011: New Labels for Light Bulb Packaging

Racially Profiling Kids? NAACP Investigates Solon PD - WJW Turns out, the children had nothing to do with the burglary and a middle-aged man was arrested.
Marine Widow Michaela Brummund Battles Verizon Over $350 Termination Fee despite Brummund "being a widow and Verizon not living up to its contractual obligations to provide actual cellphone coverage" In another instance, a Verizon representative allegedly threatened to blow up a man's house over a $308 bill (terrorist phone co's)

Mozilla likes HTML5 over Flash | NetworkWorld.com Community the Adobe product will never be bundled with the browser.
How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)

062510
Postcards from Hell - By Elizabeth Dickinson | Foreign Policy

Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone's McChrystal Profiler, Says Troops Are Happy That General Was Ousted Look, I went into journalism to do journalism, not advertising. My views are critical but that shouldn't be mistaken for hostile - I'm just not a stenographer. There is a body of work that shows how I view these issues but that was hard-earned through experience, not something I learned going to a cocktail party on fucking K Street. That's what reporters are supposed to do, report the story (swoon)

Ikhwanweb :: The Muslim Brotherhood Official English Website Turkey has decided to continue severing ties with Israel by canceling the agreement it signed in 2000 to supply Israel with water for a 20 year period.

Oil from spill pushes ashore from Panhandle to Mississippi (with photos, video) | al.com
Gulf Coast Governors Leaving National Guard Idle - CBS Evening News - CBS News Thousands of Troops Called Up to Fight Oil Spill Haven't Been Deployed
As Jindal Criticized Federal Bureaucracy, Louisiana Guard Troops Sat Idle - ProPublica (Christ, what a hypocrite)
Rep. Markey Wants All Oil Response Resources Directed To The Gulf, Introduces Bills To Improve 'Tool Kit'

New NBC/WSJ Poll: Sarah Palin and George W. Bush Liked By Same Percentage of Americans | Firedoglake ("27 Percenters" -- but yer media love 'em)
A Questionable Excuse on Immigration - Kiplinger Polls show a majority of Americans back the law even though a majority also think it will lead to racial discrimination. They’ve apparently decided it’s worth the price (or that it was the whole point in the first place)
Twenty Other States Considering Copying Arizona Immigration Law There has been little sign that the other three states that border Mexico will follow Arizona's lead. California, New Mexico and Texas have long-established, politically powerful Hispanic communities (so what's Nebraska's problem?)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Another Head for the Right and the Left
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect - Toilet Training - Dave Weigel is leaving The Washington Post over private e-mails mocking conservative figures .. not because of any kind of professional misconduct but because someone leaked private correspondence in a deliberate effort to make Weigel look bad (but lying about WMD is just fine with Goldberg and WaPo)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Potty Training By Judith Miller and Sally Quinn - That’s the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, who single-handedly wrote the absolutely most factless pieces of propaganda in the run-up to the war in Iraq this side of Judy Miller, and to my knowledge has never corrected the record in detail and atoned for his sins.
Goldberg's War, By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine) (2006: and nothing happened)
Blog Network - On The Topic of Dave Weigel
Dave Weigel's Resignation: The Backstory And Meaning (purge of rationality, ala Froomkin)

Financial Reform Bill Passes: Banks Keep Derivatives Units, Volcker Rules Softened; House-Senate Conference Passes Financial Reform Bill After Marathon Session
Dylan Ratigan: Wall Street Reform: Politicians Lie, Media Applauds, America Suffers
Phony Farmers Exposed | Michael Crowley | Reader's Digest Billions in tax dollars go to frauds who have never plowed a field. How did the system get so corrupt? (just a few small "family farms" nothing to see here)

Newspapers Retract 'Climategate' Claims, but Damage Still Done - Newsweek (which they knew would happen +Murdoch lies +ACORN!)
Foetus 'cannot feel pain before 24 weeks' - Telegraph n foetus cannot feel pain before 24 weeks, according to an official review of scientific evidence, contradicting one argument that anti-abortion campaigners have used for reducing the termination limit.
Halfway to Pluto, New Horizons Wakes Up in 'Exotic Territory'
Morality: Rose-coloured spectacles? | The Economist Cheats may or may not prosper, but they despise themselves for cheating
YouTube - ISS Tour - Welcome To The International Space Station!

Nobody's watching: The strange genius of the fourth season of 'Til Death | TV | The A.V. Club Blog | The A.V. Club
Courthouse News Service Police Tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn't breathe, after her grandson called 911 seeking medical assistance (trial lawyers!)
YouTube - NIMOKG's Channel
YouTube - Excited dog plays with baby

Apple responds to iPhone 4 reception issues: you're holding the phone the wrong way -- Engadget (they would say that +you're not cool enough for reception)

062410
Obama Says Afghan Policy Won’t Change After Dismissal - NYTimes.com (of course not)
Petraeus Is Now Taking Control of a ‘Tougher Fight’ - NYTimes.com (victory is always one more surge away)
For Obama, Decision to Remove General Came Quickly - NYTimes.com ... . He reached out for advice to a soldier-statesman, Colin L. Powell (an expert in coverups and lying)
Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow Examines McChrystal’s War | Firedoglake
Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » MoveOn Scrubs “General Betray Us” Page From Website . . . Update: Flashback to 2007, Obama Skipped Senate Vote to Condemn MoveOn . . . Update 2: Rationale Page Also Flushed
Liberal Dems' battle to cut defense spending reaches a turning point - TheHill.com
The Case for Calling Them Nitwits - Magazine - The Atlantic

N Korea seeks $75 trillion in compensation - ABC News for six decades of hostility.
Sexual Assaults Add to Miseries of Haiti’s Ruins - NYTimes.com

Gulf Oil Spill: Containment Cap BACK ON It had captured 700,000 gallons of oil in 24 hours before one of the robots bumped into it late in the morning (which is 125x what they said was leaking originally)
BP Is Pursuing Alaska Drilling That Some Call Risky - NYTimes.com
Judge Denies Obama Administration's Request For Stay On Deepwater Drilling Moratorium, Another Attempt Coming The same judge who ruled this week that the administration's temporary ban was illegal denied the Justice Department's attempt for a "stay" on the ban Thursday morning (bought by BP)
Daily Kos: FL-Sen: Rubio supports oil because it's safe (we don't think that word means what you think it does)
Daily Kos: Bush administration reversed Clinton requirement to model deepwater spills
The Associated Press: House votes to give subpoena power for spill panel The vote Wednesday was 420-1, with Republican Rep. Ron Paul of Texas casting the only no vote.
Michael T. Klare: The Era of Xtreme Energy: Life After the Age of Oil

Confidence Waning in Obama, U.S. Outlook - WSJ.com (good news for Republicans!)
Border Drones? Homeland Security To Use Unmanned Surveillance Aircraft Over U.S. Border (next: with Hellfire missles)
NYC mayor, major CEOs lobby for immigration reform
Rand Paul's Underground Electric Border Fence Baffles Cornyn, Libertarians
Senator introduces legislation to shift tax burden back to billionaires | Raw Story ndependent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is sick of the super-rich avoiding estate taxes.
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Emerging Republican Minority
The GOP's Expiration Date Nears? - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Should the Republican Party Move to the Center on Social Issues?
Texas Republicans’ Idea of “Small Government”: Criminalizing Homosexuality, Blow Jobs | Firedoglake
State GOP chief tackles party's big debt | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle New Houston chairman trying to keep the party out of bankruptcy

Jobs Bill: Democrats Say Thursday's Doomed Vote Is The Last Chance Democrats are giving up on trying to break a Republican filibuster of a bill to reauthorize several expired domestic aid programs, including extended unemployment benefits.
Final Derivatives Showdown Thursday: Read The House Offer
Daily Kos: Senate ready to hang states, the unemployed, the economy out to dry
Against The Super-Asinine, The Gods Themselves Contend in Vain - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Matthew Yglesias » Will Bad News Spur Action? (SATSQ:NO)
Final Derivatives Showdown Thursday: Read The House Offer
Weekly Claims Drop Offers Some Jobs Hope; Durables Fall - CNBC The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance fell slightly more than expected last week,
For the 'funemployed,' unemployment's welcomed - Los Angeles Times (2009: when unemployment was fun! +they're all on drugs!)
Taxpayer-Owned Fannie Mae Attacks Struggling Homeowners (now there's a homeowner retention program we can believe in)
New-Home Sales Fell to New Low in May - NYTimes.com (33% drop)
Niall Ferguson: A Checkup on Global Financial Health | WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling he ruling does not necessarily require Skilling's conviction to be overturned ("honest services" law overturned)
Aid to the Unemployed Facing Foreclosure: Too Little, Too Late? « The Washington Independent (HAMP: program designed to fail exceeded expectations)

Report: Toxins found in whales bode ill for humans - Yahoo! News Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth's oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals (+its already too late)
The Vanishing Mind - Promise Seen for Detection of Alzheimer’s - NYTimes.com
Stem cells reverse blindness caused by burns - KansasCity.com
When Humans and Neanderthals Split : Discovery News A new study on dental fossils indicates Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens, shared a common ancestor at least one million years ago, which is more than 500,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Whooping cough declared epidemic in California - San Jose Mercury News (anti-vax hysteria +Jenney McCarthy, Playboy model and health expert)
BBC News - Extreme DIY: Building a homemade nuclear reactor in NYC - 38th independent amateur physicist in the world to achieve nuclear fusion from a homemade reactor

U.S. Supreme Court: OK to release initiative signers' names - The Politics Blog - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington in refusing to bar the disclosure of names of voters that signed the Referendum 71 petitions last year
The New Segregation Debate - Newsweek Can educating girls and boys separately fix our public schools, or does it reinforce outmoded gender stereotypes?
Portland woman says Al Gore groped her in hotel room | OregonLive.com
'Time' Magazine: The Last Of The Big Newsweeklies : NPR

Fresh Air Interview: S.C. Gwynne - Comanche Nation: The Rise And Fall Of An 'Empire' : NPR

The Volokh Conspiracy » Youtube wins Viacom Lawsuit:
Communities Dominate Brands: Full Analysis of iPhone Economics - it is bad news. And then it gets worse
"Login" is not a verb

062310
Hundreds Missing as Floods Sweep Northeastern Brazil - NYTimes.com
Canada Earthquake 2010: Toronto, Ottawa Report Ground Shaking
Mexico asks court to reject Ariz. immigration law
Gillard ousts Rudd in bloodless coup - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

General McChrystal Relieved Of Command: Obama Takes General Off Top Afghan Post
McChrystal Survived Tillman Cover-Up And Detainee Abuse, But Not Rolling Stone's Profile
Frank Schaeffer: McChrystal's Disdain: Symptom of a Mercenary Force With Few Ties to Civilian Leaders (and the biggest miliary budget in the world) ("evangelical Christians -- now a force for reactionary Far Right politics -- created an alliance between themselves, the Republican party, and the military beginning in the 1970s")
David Bromwich: McChrystal, Obama, and Authority This was General Stanley McChrystal's third outburst of insubordination - if the government in a box could turn so quickly into a bleeding ulcer, there must have been a fault (among other places) somewhere in McChrystal's thinking
McChrystal Arrives In Washington To Meet With Obama, Denies Reports Of Resignation Offer
Modo - Seven Days in June - NYTimes.com After nine years, more than a thousand troops dead, and hundreds of billions spent that could have been put toward developing new forms of fuel so that all our miseries and all our fun doesn’t derive from oil, we’ve fought our way to a stalemate.
Doris Kearns Goodwin - What Would Lincoln Do? - NYTimes.com - the “insolence of epaulettes”
General McChrystal Failing to Follow Obama’s Afghan Policy - The Daily Beast Last summer, he tried to split the difference—surging in Afghanistan while simultaneously pledging to retreat on the theory that within eighteen months the U.S. could so weaken the Taliban that they would sue for peace. Six months in, that strategy looks increasingly absurd.
Another view on 'runaway general': Don't fire McChrystal - USATODAY.com At this moment, as we enter into perhaps the most crucial six months of the entire war, I hope and pray that President Obama will decide we cannot afford to be without the leadership of such an amazing American! (O'Hanlon wanks for six more months, 17 Friedman Units later)
Olbermann Tells Obama: Reject McChrystal's Resignation Offer (conventional wisdom)
TriValley Central - Army probes claims of US funds flowing to Afghan insurgents

Israeli Criticizes Plans to Raze Palestinian Homes - NYTimes.com
“As Jews we should stand as a beacon for human rights not as an internationally known perpetrator of atrocities.” « Orwell's Dreams
Hamas: We won't let Red Cross visit Shalit - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Hamas official says visitation denied for fear it might lead Israel to try to free abducted IDF soldier in military operation.

Oil in the Gulf, two months later - The Big Picture - Boston.com
More Oil Gushing Into Gulf After Problem With Cap - NYTimes.com The current worst-case estimate of what's spewing into the Gulf is about 2.5 million gallons a day (remember "minimal" and "5,000 gallons?" )
Judge Blocks Obama’s Moratorium on Deep-Water Drilling - White House Sets Appeal - NYTimes.com
More oil flows into Gulf of Mexico after accident | Reuters

BP Gulf Oil Spill Myths - Gulf Oil Spill Myths and Facts - thedailygreen.com the moratorium affected fewer than 1% of Gulf of Mexico oil wells - shut down 33 exploratory deepwater wells - left 3,600 existing offshore oil wells active in Gulf waters

A grim technical view on the BP Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico | Editor's Choice |Axisoflogic.com
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Coming Era of Energy Disasters | TomDispatch
Poll Finds Deep Concern About Energy and Economy - NYTimes.com By a large margin, the public over all said more regulation of offshore drilling to protect the environment was needed, but respondents were also more likely to attribute the BP accident to a failure of the federal government to enforce existing rules than to a lack of adequate regulation.
A Mystery: When Did Gov’t Exempt Gulf Drilling from Detailed Enviro Reviews? - ProPublica Somehow, the Minerals Management Service decided that there was little chance of disaster and thus gave the entire [2] central and western Gulf an exclusion from a requirement for comprehensive environmental reviews.
Oil Execs Grilled On Copycat Emergency Plans : NPR
Revealed: Judge who overturned Obama’s offshore moratorium owns drilling stocks | Raw Story
AMERICAblog News: Why the Deepwater Horizon rig may have blown up
BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill - The Source - WSJ
Soros’s Oil Spill Payoff | FrontPage Magazine
India fury over US 'double standards' on BP and Bhopal | Environment | The Guardian Barack Obama's tough stand on Gulf oil spill contrasts with lack of action on Bhopal, campaigners say
Joe Barton Will Keep Energy Committee Post After Apologizing To GOP Colleagues
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: BP AND THE AXIS OF EVIL They gave the world Ayatollah Khomeini.
The History of Oil - Robert Newman

CIA Gives Blackwater Firm New $100 Million Contract
Gonzalo Lira: Is the U.S. a Fascist Police-State? « naked capitalism yesterday’s Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project decision (No. 08-1498, also 09-89) of the Supreme Court, coupled with last week’s Arar v. Ashcroft denial of certiorari (No. 09-923), the case for claiming that the U.S. is a fascist police-state just got a whole lot stronger.
- IPS Inter Press Service Peace Groups Slam High Court Ruling on "Terror Support"
Kagan scores win on terror-support law - Josh Gerstein - politico.com (signs of things to come)
Poll shows Perry, White with 43 percent each in Texas gubernatorial race | Elections & Pol...
Senator David Vitter's Aide Brent Furer Attacked Girlfriend, Pleaded Guilty - ABC News Drunk Driving, Attack on Girlfriend, Open Warrant Detailed in ABC News Report ... has spent the last five years posted in his Washington office to handle, among other things, women's issues
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » And the Fluffing Begins South Carolina state Rep. Nikki Haley cruised to the Republican nomination for governor tonight, a victory that makes her not just the frontrunner for the office this fall but a likely national GOP star (they are always rising +Chris Cilizza is an idiot)
alicublog: Why I Am Not A Libertarian, Part 4,229 (The article actually compares an Afghan Taliban interdiction against ladies eating ice cream with an anti-Mr. Softee drive in Park Slope)
Carlson says her job on Fox & Friends is "just like" being president | Media Matters for America
'Party of Parasites' author took $1M in farm subsidies - KansasCity.com The Raytown farmer who posted a sign on a semi-truck trailer accusing Democrats of being the “Party of Parasites” received more than $1 million in federal crop subsidies since 1995 ... David Jungerman can't spell "hypocrite" but is now famous on the internets for all eternity

Editorial - Cutting Off the Unemployed - NYTimes.com 900,000 jobless workers have already lost their benefits, a number that will swell to an estimated 1.6 million people if an extension is not passed by the July Fourth (test them for drugs!)
Calculated Risk: FOMC Statement: Less Positive . The Fed noted the financial issues in Europe, and also commented that "underlying inflation has trended lower". Each statements was slightly less positive ...
How Is It That We Have Lost the Argument? - Grasping Reality with Both Hands many “sound” people prefer orthodox recessions to unorthodox recoveries (never argue with idiots?)
Open Left:: Harold Meyerson also questions the Underpants Gnomes theory on jobs/deficit - "But today, the Blue Dogs insist on offsetting stimulus with cuts, which can create a self-negating position" (but the deficit!)
Square Feet - New Accounting Rules Could Unsettle Leasing Market - NYTimes.com As a result of the change, public companies will have to put some $1.3 trillion in leases on their balance sheets, according to estimates by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Because many private companies also follow GAAP accounting, the number could be closer to $2 trillion, experts said.
Geithner Says Bailout Money Is Being Repaid - NYTimes.com (but AIG will wipe it all out)

The Writer Who Couldn't Read : NPR
IBM’s Watson Trivia Challenge - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Beyond the petaflop: DARPA wants quintillion-speed computers | NetworkWorld.com Community
Texas judge tosses creationists' plan for science degrees | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Organic pesticides not always 'greener' choice, study finds

Remains of 72 people found at World Trade Center site - Telegraph
Queens Prosecutors Make Use of Broader Vision on Hate Crimes - NYTimes.com
Police vs. City Council on Oakland budget cuts
Courthouse News Service A homeowner says he was arrested for "illegal photography" when a police sergeant followed him into his own home, and he objected and took the cop's photo with his cell phone.
Virgin Atlantic Passengers Faint, Deprived Of Water For Hours On Runway stuck in a hot, dark plane parked on a tarmac, while babies squirmed and people yelled and screamed. At least three people fainted and were taken away in ambulances.

Oprah Rigs Votes Against Zach Anner?
YouTube - Jessica's "Daily Affirmation"
Jessica of 'Daily Affirmation' Fame - An Urlesque Interview - Urlesque
YouTube - Goodnight Moon
pretty dumb things

Just around the Corner: GPS Navigation Evolved
F.lux: software to make your life better (change monitor brightness by the hour)
The 5 Most Advanced Search Engines On The Web

062210
The Runaway General | Rolling Stone Politics Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House (time for the wimp-in-chief to stand up)
Robert Greenwald: McChrystal Must Resign For insubordination, for disrespecting the Office of the President of the United States and for allowing derision of the White House among his staff, General Stanley McChrystal must resign.
McChrystal - Swampland - time.com I suppose he will have to be sacked now (Joe Klein at work)
Gen. Stanley McChrystal: Latest developments – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs Gen. Stanley McChrystal has submitted his resignation, Time magazine's Joe Klein told CNN, citing an unnamed source. CNN is working to confirm Klein's information.
General McChrystal's Rolling Stone Interview A 'Significant Mistake,' Gates Says
BBC News - General Stanley McChrystal summoned over article claims
Obama’s MacArthur Moment? McChrystal Disses Biden | Informed Comment
The Night Beat: What the Heck Was McChrystal Thinking? - Politics - The Atlantic
Obama leaving options open on firing McChrystal, Gibbs says
McChrystal Apologizes, But The Question Remains: Defrock The Pope? | ATTACKERMAN
Parents of Slain Army Ranger Tillman: McChrystal Shouldn't Get Top Afghanistan Post - FOXNews.com (5/2009: he was at the heart of the Tilman coverup)
Jon Krakauer: McChrystal's Explanation For Pat Tillman Cover-up Is 'Preposterous' 'Not Believable' | Video Cafe
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Krakauer: McChrystal shouldn’t be in charge in Afghanistan « - Blogs from CNN.com
Tillman mother sought to warn Obama of McChrystal - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
A D.C. whodunit: Who leaked and why? - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com The leak is a shot across the bows, he said, of Vice President Joe Biden and of leading congressional Democrats who oppose a buildup in Afghanistan (remember this? McChrystal did it)
Why Military Code Demands McChrystal's Resignation - Newsweek
Farewell to McChrystal, hello to Mattis? - By Tom Ricks | The Best Defense
Analysis: Afghanistan timeline provokes concerns - News - Stripes (didn't like Obama making withdrawlal noises)
A General Who Speaks His Mind (Even When He Shouldn't) - Newsweek
How Rolling Stone Won The News Cycle And Lost The Story | TPM LiveWire
YouTube - Apocolypse Now!: Better angels of our nature
'The Runaway General': General McChrystal Faces BLOWBACK From Rolling Stone Expose
McChrystal's Rolling Stone Interview: General's Team SLAMS Key Obama Officials (slideshow) ("It was a 10-minute photo op," says an adviser to McChrystal. "Obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. Here's the guy who's going to run his fucking war, but he didn't seem very engaged")
Duncan Boothby RESIGNS: McChrystal Aide Steps Down In Wake Of Rolling Stone Piece in the wake of an explosive Rolling Stone expose that features McChrystal's staff openly criticizing key members of the Obama administration.
Rolling Stone Editor: McChrystal Knew He Was On The Record, Didn't Dispute Accuracy Of Quotes (video)
Hamid Karzai, Brother Endorse McChrystal After Rolling Stone Interview: 'Best Commander' Of Afghanistan War
Ralph Peters’ General-Betray-Us Moment | attackerman (9/2009: background)

North Korea watches live as its team loses big
The RCMP: a police force in denial | Full Comment | National Post

'A Pandora's Box': Arrest of Suspected Mossad Agent Strains German-Israeli Relations - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International Officials in Berlin say the Israeli secret service went too far in obtaining a German passport for alleged use in the murder of a Hamas official in Dubai -- especially as they apparently used a fake story of Nazi persecution to get it (well?)

Just How British Is BP? - Green Blog - NYTimes.com 39 percent of the company is owned by American shareholders and six Americans – half the total – sit on its board of directors.
Judge blocks Obama move on drilling - Disaster in the Gulf- msnbc.com Feldman's financial disclosure report for 2008, the most recent available, shows holdings in at least eight petroleum companies or companies that invest in them, including Transocean Ltd., which owned the Deepwater Horizon ("oil judge")
Judge who overturned drilling moratorium reported owning stock in drilling companies - Yahoo! News
Conservative media defend BP against "shakedowns," "show trials," and environmentalists at least 62 times | Media Matters for America
Stewart Nails GOP For Flip Flopping On Escrow Fund (video)

Everyday Corruption | The American Prospect The policy-making process has become an extension of the market battlefield.
Orrin Hatch: Drug Test The Unemployed Utah voters have reacted enthusiastically to Sen. Orrin Hatch's legislation to drug test the unemployed and those receiving other forms of government cash assistance (how about Wall Street CEOs? since they're the ones on crack ... and Senators!)
PressThink Fixing The Ideology Problem in Our Political Press: A Reply to The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder
In which I agree with Howard Kurtz | Media Matters for America If we can't find a way to make such fundamental issues compelling, we ought to find another line of work (well?)

Dems won’t pass budget in 2010 - TheHill.com The House has never failed to pass an annual budget resolution since the current budget rules were put into place in 1974.
Americans to Congress: Give Us Jobs, Not Deficit Dance | FDL Action (the 5%'ers are controlling the conversation)
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner | How Democrats Can Win the Economic Debate by Making Small Business the Center of Their Agenda Republicans led Democrats by a 48 percent to 38 percent on which party would do a better job “helping small businesses succeed.” Among independents, that gap widens to 29 points.

In a Michelangelo Fresco, Visions of a Brain Stem - NYTimes.com
nsf.gov - National Science Foundation (NSF) News - Researchers Discover Relative of Best-Known Human Ancestor - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

BBC News - Monsanto GM seed ban is overturned by US Supreme Court The bio-tech company Monsanto can sell genetically modified seeds before safety tests on them are completed, the US Supreme Court has ruled (Roberts' Court: too extreme for America?)
YouTube - Dave Chappelle- Drugs

Lady Power - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com There is nobody like Lady Gaga in part because she keeps us guessing about who she, as a woman, really is.

Timothy Karr: The Fate of the Internet -- Decided in a Back Room - the Federal Communications Commission is holding "closed-door meetings" with industry to broker a deal on Net Neutrality -- the rule that lets users determine their own Internet experience (Obama loves his back-room deals)
Adobe Flash gets its full launch on Android | VentureBeat
The Growing Geek iPhone Backlash - Business - The Atlantic (is Steve Jobs a Republican?)
Official Google Blog: Google Voice for everyone

062110
Supreme Court Upholds Anti-Terror Law The court ruled 6-3 Monday that the government may prohibit all forms of aid to designated terrorist groups, even if the support consists of training and advice about entirely peaceful and legal activities (like talking)

Korea Radiation Surge Detected Days After Hydrogen Bomb Claims
White House: July 2011 Afghan withdrawal 'firm' | AP | 06/20/2010 (at least 12 troops will leave by then, if the Generals allow it)
The Key to Success: in Afghanistan: A Modern Silk Road Strategy: S. Frederick Starr, Andrew C. Kuchins (PDF)
David Ignatius - Afghanistan's future lies in trade partnerships (and infrastructure! - way too late for that, WaPo)
YouTube - Portugal legalizes drugs. Crime/Usage falls (never in America)

Israeli Easing of Blockade of Gaza Draws Praise of U.S. - NYTimes.com (way to crystallize international opinion, Israel)

Regulators Failed to Address Risks in Oil Rig Fail-Safe Device - NYTimes.com (regulators?)
The Washington Monthly: Barbour: Moratorium Worse Than Spill - Barbour neglected to mention is that Obama got BP to commit to a $100 million fund to compensate unemployed oil rig workers affected by the closure of other deepwater rigs (Obama should take him up on that)
Joe Barton: The Vultures Circle As Barton makes his case to GOP leadership, it doesn't help that he ran against Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) for the top spot following the 2006 Democratic takeover
Joe Barton's Apology: Dems Doing All They Can To Draw It Out Through November
Melancon: Obama Gets A 'C' On Oil Spill Response | TPMDC the difference here, and that's the frustration that I have and I keep asking people what is it exactly that you want the federal government to do? (surprisingly sane Dem from coastal Louisiana)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Godwin's Law Needs Updating ... if Salam thought about it for a moment, he'd realize that the government pressuring BP to pay for the damage it caused out of its own pocket is not exactly "similar" to the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans or the The Opium Wars, both of which involved the coercive use of military force and large numbers of human casualties (Reihan Salam is an idiot and jumps on the "shakedown" bandwagon)
Gulf Oil Spill: Undersea oil masses confirmed in tests | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times (tell the fish to apologize to BP for dying)
The oil blowout will mean more subsidies for the ethanol industry. That's bad news for consumers. - By Robert Bryce - Slate Magazine The oil blowout will mean more subsidies for the corn-fuel industry. That's bad news for consumer
How the Gulf crisis made BP British again. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
Update: Jimmy Buffett announces Gulf Shores concert to promote tourism | al.com (promoting oil-soaked beaches!)

Rahm Emanuel Leaving The White House: Sooner Or Later, Maybe Or Not! (a year too late)
Joe Scarborough: Fox News 'The Only Organizing Institution For The GOP' (video)
Hullabaloo: digby: Solidarity Through Bigotry - ""Every time we give amnesty for an illegal alien, we deport a liberal." the goal of the movement is to unite America the way it was immediately following the 2001 terrorist attacks (those good old hippie-bashing unity days)
It Never Ends: The Boiling Frogs - Science and Tech - The Atlantic (cliche-ridden pundits, esp little Tommy Friedman)
For Democrats, Internal Dissent Could Stop an Agenda Cold - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
TLC Makes Push For Red America the network is making maybe its strongest play yet for the non-elite, middle-class audience, with a new show starring the queen of Red State America, Sarah Palin (appealing to everyone in red-state America with an IQ under freezing)

Zombies Have Already Killed The Deficit Commission - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com Simpson has resurrected the old nonsense about how Social Security will be bankrupt as soon as payroll tax revenues fall short of benefit payments, never mind the quarter century of surpluses that came first (good job, Obama, appointing Alan "the lesser people" Simpson as head of the commission)
National League of Cities: Local Jobs for America Act Introduced in the Senate | Al Franken - U.S. Senator, Minnesota (Republicans will veto)
Some Winners Emerge From Europe’s Debt Crisis - NYTimes.com While Germans have complained the loudest about having to bail out Greece and the other overindebted nations, Germany is arguably the big winner from the financial crisis in the form of lower interest rates and a more robust stock market.
Swipe Fee Deal: Merchants Beat Wall Street
Borrowers exit troubled Obama mortgage program - Business Breaking News - MiamiHerald.com More than a third of the 1.24 million borrowers who have enrolled in the $75 billion mortgage modification program have dropped out. That exceeds the number of people who have managed to have their loan payments reduced to help them keep their homes (program designed to fail from the beginning, failed miserably)
Matthew Yglesias » Angela Merkel Lucky the Bar for “Worst German Leader” is Very High
How To Become a Millionaire In Three Years | Jason L. Baptiste

The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (Part 1) - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Defense.gov News Transcript: DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers - February 12, 2002 11:30 AM EST (" But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know")
No One Knows What the F*** They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge")
YouTube - known unknown (Boondocks)
Mind Over Body: Scientific American - Stroke victims cannot perceive paralysis in themselves--or others

Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to Elderly - NYTimes.com
Skin Cancer Is on the Rise, Indoor Tanning to Blame | LiveScience The invention of the tanning bed changed that, and throughout the 1990s, the rapid proliferation of tanning salons provided venues for millions of people to sunbathe regardless of weather, season, or time of day.
Doctors limit new Medicare patients - Usatoday.com
Should pregnant women be medical test subjects? – Paging Dr. Gupta - CNN.com Blogs
BBC News - Lung cancer risk 'cut by B vitamin'

CNN Drops AP Wire Service CNN has been an AP customer since the cable network launched in 1980.
Ted Koppel's Son Andrew Died From Alcohol, Cocaine, Heroin & More combined effects of alcohol; heroin; cocaine; diazepam, the generic form of Valium; and Levamisole

ThinkGeek :: Blurgh! The ThinkGeek Blog - Officially our best-ever cease and desist (product of the best corporate legal minds in Amercia)

Swype Reinvents Typing on Touch-Screen Phones - NYTimes.com
School Ban Would Crack Down On Sexting--Even In The Home , "It comes down to the fact that these kids are just lawless."
HOW TO : Enable Wordpress 3.0 New Features After Upgradation
2000 iMac compared to the 2010 iPhone - Ars Technica OpenForum
Ars reviews iOS 4: what's new, notable, and what needs work
Move your Windows XP installation into Windows 7 with VMware | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com
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062010
Ethnic attacks in Kyrgyzstan - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Japan Has 'Priority' On Rights To Mine Afghanistan Mineral Deposits, Says Hamid Karzai (muhahaha)
Somali Pirate Cook Saves Hostages, Then Disappears
McClatchy blog: Nukes & Spooks So far in 2010, nearly as many active and non-active duty troops have committed suicide as have died while serving in Afghanistan, 163 and 172
VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water | McClatchy - "any Camp Lejeune veteran who files a claim now is presumed to have been exposed to the contaminated drinking water"

Israel Eases Gaza Blockade, Will Allow In All Goods Except For Weapons
Over a thousand blocking gates at Oakland docks : Indybay This could be history; a first in the United States; joining actions in many countries.
Poll: Most Palestinians want peace with Israel - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News 89% Palestinians support PA legislative elections this year, 84 % believe Fatah will win.

The Oil Drum | What Were the Causes That Led to the Deepwater Horizon Blowout and Explosion? - and Open Thread
Frank Rich - Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock - NYTimes.com - In the short history of the Obama White House, two of its most urgent projects, reducing unemployment and pacifying Afghanistan, have yet to yield persuasive results. The dividends on the third, health care reform, won’t be in the mail for years.
Rahm Emanuel: Joe Barton's BP Apology Represents Difference Between Democrats And Republicans (video)
Large oil spills are old news in the Niger Delta
Crews drill deep into Gulf of Mexico to halt leak - Yahoo! News
The oil spill colors the fabric of Gulf coastal life | McClatchy
BP Relied on Cheaper Wells - WSJ.com WSJ Analysis Shows Oil Giant Used 'Risky' Design More Often Than Most Peers
BP Thought Spill Could Be 100-Times Larger Than It Told Congress, According To Internal Document
Gulf Oil Spill Causes Other Nations To Rethink Drilling
Think Progress » Kristol: ‘It’s not healthy for the country…for the President to bully’ BP (where their loyalties lie +Christ, what an asshole)
John Fund: BP 'Shakedown' Sends Message The U.S. Can Resemble Banana Republic Overnight with Wrong President in Charge | Video Cafe (Republican hacks at work protecting the rich +ditto)
Louisiana lawmakers propose prayer to stop oil disaster - CNN.com (thought God caused it, this might piss Him off even more)
Twitter / Sarah Palin: Gulf disaster needs divine intervention as man's efforts have been futile. Gulf lawmakers designate today Day of Prayer for solution/miracle (just ask Big Butter Jesus)

Gates: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Repeal Could Be Vetoed Because Of Budget Battle Obama probably still would veto an upcoming spending bill that includes the repeal – if the bill also contains money for defense projects he says are wasteful.
Hullabaloo Calling Out The Obstructionists - “Gridlock as a political strategy is destructive to the country.”
Daily Kos: Some excerpts from the Texas Republican Party platform: Confederate Widows Plaque, Sodomy Statutes, make it a felony to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple, don't give money to the Republican party
Daily Kos: The Republicans are not on your side
An unexpected result for some census takers: the wrath of irate Americans "I was stunned, I really was, that America is so mad at the government," said Chesney, who no longer works for the census. "People don't know what it's like out there. It's scary and dangerous, and it's not worth my life." (Beck/Limbaugh and the stupid/insane crowd)

Social Security: Punching Bag For Right Wingers Since 1935 | Firedoglake (Alan Simpson, grouchy old man: "We’re trying to take care of the lesser people" because he's a "greater person")
Matthew Yglesias » Millionaires vs the Unemployed
Fannie and Freddie tab is $146B and rising - STLtoday.com - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took over a foreclosed home roughly every 90 seconds during the first three months of the year
China Agrees to “Flexible” Exchange Rate | FDL News Desk

2010 could be among warmest years recorded by man | Environment | The Guardian Figures from US scientists show Arctic sea ice is at a record low, while land temperatures are likely to hit new highs (just a plot by liberal nature to deprive us of our Republican life-styles)
2010 So Far Has Been Hottest Year on Record: NOAA : TreeHugger
RealClimate: Leakegate: A retraction (WP: "The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation - Murdoch at work +Jonathan Leake is a wanker)
Leakegate : Deltoid - Leake deliberately concealed the fact that error in the IPCC was a missing cite, rather than a factual error
Forests expert officially complains about 'distorted' Sunday Times article | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Pubs.GISS: Abstract of Foster et al. 2010

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Could It Be That the Best Chance to Save a Young Family From Foreclosure is a 28-Year-Old Pakistani American Playright-slash-Attorney who Learned Bankruptcy Law on the Internet?
The man who’s tutoring Bill Gates … - The Globe and Mail Prof. Smil is an expert on the history of technological innovation.
VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water | McClatchy any Camp Lejeune veteran who files a claim now is presumed to have been exposed to the contaminated drinking water"
Are Australian honeybees behind U.S. hive collapse? | McClatchy federal regulators say they'd consider import restrictions if necessary.
Alfred the Great's granddaughter comes home - News, Archaeology - The Independent
Duke study: PCs hurt students | McClatchy - North Carolina middle school students' test scores dropped after they got home computers, suggesting they spent more time playing "The Sims" than working practice math problems (and watching porno)
A Pacemaker Wrecks a Family's Life - NYTimes.com What Broke My Father’s Heart
David Friedman Photography: Blog: Inventors Archives
don kenn gallery (monsterdrawings on post-its)

Penguin Canada head fired, faces sexual harassment suit - thestar.com
Penguin Canada: How Not to Manage a Sexual Harassment Suit | BNET Media Blog | BNET

homosexuality TIME Magazine - Search Results (see Time Mag's evolution in thinking about gay sex)
Metric madness: How automakers refuse to give it up - usatoday.com (dumb reporter gets trashed in comments)
Dude - An $800,000 Disaster. Where Did They Go Wrong? by Patricia Bosworth The New York Times - October 22, 1972
Best kept secrets in Cambrige, MA? : AskReddit
Are Michelle and Barack Obama the reincarnation of Queen Tiye and Akhenaton of Ancient Egypt? « Fahrusha's Weblog

Everything We Know About Fatherhood, We Learned From YouTube - Newsweek
Twitter Annotations Are Coming — What Do They Mean For Twitter and the Web?
AT&T Randomly Cancelling iPhone 4 Pre-Orders?
10 Fun Facts You Didn't Know About Google

061910
Derrick Crowe: General Petraeus Starts Moving the Goalposts on Afghanistan Withdrawal (they always do)
17 Afghan Military Go AWOL In Texas, Alert Issued (once they've seen Paree)
Turkish Jets Raid Northern Iraq, Clashes Kill 23
CBC.ca News - Air India Flight 182 Canadian authorities should have known that Air India Flight 182 was a potential terrorist target, a long-awaited report says in blaming a "cascading series of errors" by government, the RCMP and CSIS for failing to prevent the disaster.
BBC News - Canada stun gun death 'not justified' Robert Dziekanski, who did not speak English, died after being stunned five times with a Taser in 2007 (whoops, there was a video made by a bystander: "before his death, Mr Dziekanski asked the policemen in Polish: "Have you lost your minds?")
Iceland passes gay marriage law in unanimous vote | Reuters

Ultra-Orthodox parents evading jail-time in segregated school row to spend Shabbat at home - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News illegally segregating their Ashkenazi daughters from Sephardi classmates.
Hasidic Jews in Israel Protest Ruling on School - NYTimes.com Many of the more modern Orthodox leaders in Israel denounced what they saw as blatant racism and segregation in Immanuel (61% of Israeli first-graders are Haredi, who will never have jobs: this is how Israel self-destructs from within)
Opinion: Emanuel Isn't Little Rock - Inside Israel - Israel News - Israel National News Could it be that the extreme leftwing anti-settlement New Israel Fund earmarked its attack against parents in Emanuel because they are Samaria residents? (could it be? you decide)
FailedMessiah.com: Letters from Israel: Supreme Court Ruling Against Haredi Racism Restores Faith In Democracy It is no coincidence that there is a Sefardic haredi party in the Knesset. It was formed solely to countermand haredi racism, but it failed to stamp out that racism.

Gulf Oil Spill: BP Partner Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Blasts BP's 'Reckless Decisions And Actions'
Gulf Oil Spill: Tony Hayward Attends Glitzy Yacht Race As Oil Spews Into Gulf (let them eat tar-balls)
Foot, Meet Mouth: Our Top Six GOP Oil Spill Gaffes | TPMDC

Iceland Passes WikiLeaks Law - Truthdig
Iceland rewrites law to create haven for investigative reporting - The Independent - ncreases protection for anonymous sources, creates new protections from so-called "libel tourism" and makes it much harder to censor stories before they are published.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Red State or CBS News? Shorter John Cole: Mark Knoller is a fucking idiot
John Huppenthal, Keith Wagner Interview: AZ State Senator Schooled By High School Student (video)
John Huppenthal 2010 - John Huppenthal is one of Arizona’s leading authorities on education issues - John Huppenthal is endorsed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Republican Leader Len Munsil and many others acorss Arizona (that's the only time "Republican" appears on his website)

The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Jon Stewart on Obama's executive power record - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com ("respect ma authoriteh!" - Obama worse than Bush in civil liberties)
Banished by the FBI | Mother Jones When he offered to fly home handcuffed and flanked by air marshals, Mr. Wehelie said, F.B.I. agents turned him down (American citizen trapped in Cairo on Obama's fuck-you list)

Tea Party - Confessions of a Tea Party Consultant - Rogues of K Street (very ugly - about what you'd expect but more)
The Very Angry Tea Party - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
What's wrong with libertarianism: they don't know what an actually oppressive government looks like; they've never experienced a depression; they've never lived in a slum or experienced racial discrimination. At the same time, they have a very American sense of entitlement: a gut feeling that they've earned the prosperity they were born into, that they owe the community nothing, that they deserve to have whatever they want, that no one should stand in their way.
Stuck Rubber Baby Home Page

Chuck DeVore To TPM: Jury Still Out On Whether Fiorina Will Be A 'Trainwreck' | TPMDC

bsom: Washington Post Alternate Reality: Public More Concerned About Deficit Than Jobs or Economy Overall - It's a trendy right-wing meme of the last few months, but here it is in the news pages of the Washington Post. But is this notion supported by what the polling actually says? No. Not even close (Fred Hiatt at work with the trendy rightwing memes)
Election-year deficit fears stall Obama stimulus plan (the trendy meme)
Rand Paul to long-term jobless: Just go back to work | McClatchy (escalating war on the unemployed by country-club Repubicans)
The New Poor - Peddling Relief, Firms Put Debtors in Deeper Hole - NYTimes.com
Matthew Yglesias » Avoiding the Resource Curse
Payback Time - In Budget Crisis, States Take Aim at Pension Costs - NYTimes.com Many states are acknowledging this year that they have promised pensions they cannot afford and are cutting once-sacrosanct benefits, to appease taxpayers and attack budget deficits (only future hires, won't help much)
Retail rents rising in some top cities - Morning Call New York is most expensive Chicago ranks 14th in world

F.D.A. Panel Opposes Sexual Desire Drug for Women - NYTimes.com voted against recommending approving a drug to treat female sexual desire disorder (the "Twilight" pill)
SPACE.com -- Hundreds of Possible Alien Planets Discovered By NASA Spacecraft
Observations: Faster-than-light electric currents could explain pulsars
Ben Goldacre: Predictions are fine, but there are better ways to protect a population | Science | The Guardian
LIFE: How LIFE Works, NIF & Photon Science The concept of fusion-fission hybrids
Ed Moses : Clean Fusion Power This Decade - The Long Now

Exclusive: The unseen photographs that throw new light on the First World War - Europe, World - The Independent
Chernobyl - 24 years on - Europe, World - The Independent
Man Arrested Over 'Unrivaled' Stash Of Child Porn Photos (Austian, hmmm)
Atlanta expected to pay $20,000 to woman arrested for asking a police officer ‘why'  | ajc.com
Retailers Revive the Market in Women’s Plus Sizes - NYTimes.com 28 percent of the adult population was obese last year, the highest percentage yet. Almost two-thirds of American women are either overweight or obese, according to the most recent CDC figures.
An Excerpt From ‘Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man: A Memoir’ by Bill Clegg -- New York Magazine

Learn HTML5: 10 Must Read Lessons

061810
CBC News - Canada - Air India families find no closure in report "cascading series of errors" by government, the RCMP and the country's spy agency for failing to prevent the disaster.
Obama internet 'kill switch' proposed US President Barack Obama would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US "national asset" (all your internets are belong to us)


Asia Times Online :: Bhopal, BP and karma (what goes around ...)
Think Progress » BP Executive To Gulf Residents: You Need Us, So Don’t ‘Shoot The Dog Who Is Trying To Bring Home The Bone’ (just 'cause we filled your house with dog-shit for 60 days)
CNN's Erickson agrees: WH "meeting with" BP was "a shakedown" | Media Matters for America (CNN's elite pundit)
Liberals and Obama on the Oil Spill -- continued | TPMCafe Many liberal pundits are making absolute fools of themselves bashing Obama over the Gulf spill (way to miss the point, Theda)
Overlooked BP oil spill problem: Well gushes vast amounts of methane, could create Gulf 'dead zones' | al.com The oil emanating from the seafloor contains about 40 percent methane, compared with about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits (we are so fucked: here's your "shakedown")
BP Must Stop Using Toxic Dispersant Now, Says Environmental Engineer (video)
Stewart Calls Joe Barton A 'Disdainful A--hole' (video)
Joe Biden on Joe Barton: "Incredibly Out of Touch" | Blue Wave News
Tony Hayward removed From Gulf Spill Operations, Carl-Henric Svanberg Says (gets his life back)
Wall Street Said 'Buy, Buy, Buy' BP Stock As Gulf Crisis Unfolded ... There was not a single rating of "sell" or "underperform" among those tracked.

Official: Justice Department plans to sue over Arizona law - CNN.com
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Accountability Makes Us Vaguely Uncomfortable For the DC Press Corpse, the “rule of law” is a quaint notion that went out at the turn of the century (+"the problem with Toyota wasn’t that its cars were killing people, it was his description of how their cars were killing people")
More Republican candidates boycott the press; journalists have only themselves to blame | Media Matters for America - That's right, we now have two major party candidates running for state-wide office who pretty much won't answer questions from reporters (Angle, Paul and Obama)

You've seen the stimulus. Now, meet the anti-stimulus.
Op-Ed Columnist - That ’30s Feeling - NYTimes.com Suddenly, creating jobs is out, inflicting pain is in (Republifucks and Conservadems at work)
Alan Greenspan: U.S. Debt and the Greece Analogy - WSJ.com Don't be fooled by today's low interest rates. The government could very quickly discover the limits of its borrowing capacity (just listen to Mr Always Wrong)
Alan Simpson: Cutting Social Security Benefits to “Take Care of the Lesser People in Society” | FDL Action (the "secret" deficit commission is gunning for Social Security)

Language Log: The social psychology of linguistic naming and shaming
What is the most annoying phrase in the English language? - Telegraph

Vandana Shiva: From Seeds of Suicide to Seeds of Hope: Why Are Indian Farmers Committing Suicide and How Can We Stop This Tragedy?


Introducing the Google Command Line Tool - Google Open Source Blog

061710
Experts: U.S. has no long-term political strategy for Afghanistan | McClatchy (that's been obvious for about 10 years)
Democrats Challenge Pentagon On Afghanistan (no long-term strategy, and their short-term strategy sucks)
In Bitchy Outburst, Risen Confirms Lithium Story Timed to Afghan Setbacks | Emptywheel absolutely confirms one of the concerns raised about the piece: that its timing had everything to do with recent setbacks in Afghanistan and, probably, Petraeus’ testimony before Congress (+bloggers jerking off in their pajamas, oooh)
Afghanistan Mineral Wealth May Be Greater Than Estimated: $3 Trillion (latest from Petraeus)
Obama Calls for Return of Honduran President | News | English
A Tiny Revolution: "History Could Be Swallowed Up So Completely" (but if anyone can do it, it's Mr "Don't Look Back")
The American Empire Project Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism

Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | FPJ (that would be Israeli myths)

Is the BP Gusher Unstoppable? | Mother Jones (probably)
The Oil Drum | Deepwater Oil Spill - A Longer Term Problem, Personnel - and Open Thread 2
BP acknowledges it never followed blowout preventer law, blames MMS | NOLA.com the British oil giant blamed the federal oversight agency, Minerals Management Service, for not asking it to comply with the law.
Obama overlooked key points in giving OK to offshore drilling | McClatchy "The best piece of evidence we had was that there hadn't been a problem for decades," Browner said (which is a lie)
Who Assured Obama That Offshore Drilling Was “Absolutely Safe”? | Firedoglake (Carol Browner)
Obama's speech: There's a pipe spewing a gazillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let's build more windmills | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times Obama, the first modern president to pass his first full year in office without addressing the country from his historic desk
License To Drill | Mother Jones — Liassic/Flickr - Why did the Obama administration just approve more than 400 new leases for oil companies to operate in the Gulf of Mexico? - 198 of them in deepwater (he was "drill, baby, drilling")
More Dirty Details From My BP Mole | Mother Jones - "They've brought in prostitutes." (but no health-monitoring)
Will Obama's Actions Match His Words? - Politics - The Atlantic Obama ran for office on the promise of restoring Americans' faith in their government's ability to solve modern problems. The economy aside, this is the biggest test of whether he can bend the curve of history in that direction.
The Associated Press: Miss gov.: $20B escrow by BP might hurt, not help "If they take a huge amount of money and put it in an escrow account so they can't use it to drill oil wells and produce revenue, are they going to be able to pay us?" Gov. Haley Barbour told The Associated Press (stupid Republicans at work)
GOP Outraged By 'Shakedown' BP Escrow Account, Apologizes To CEO
Great National Tragedy is ... The Escrow Account? | Talking Points Memo
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton's gas well stake raises ethical questions | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Washington News (drenched in oil money)
Barton Retracts Apology To BP | TPMDC "I apologize for using the term 'shakedown'
Barton's Top Campaign Contributor Is Implicated In Gulf Oil Disaster | TPMMuckraker - Barton's number one career campaign contributor, Anadarko Petroleum, has 25% ownership in the well where the April 20 rig explosion occurred
ISS - Coal's Dirty Secret: a week-long, eye-opening investigation into the growing but under-reported threat of toxic coal ash to our health, communities and environment.
Op-Ed Columnist - The Boring Speech Policy - NYTimes.com All we got from President Obama was a vague call for some sort of new energy policy (+bipartisan "ideas")
Stewart Takes On America's Oil Dependence (video)
Rachel Maddow's Oval Office Oil Spill Speech: What She Wishes Obama Had Said (video) (Obama is really talking to Republicans, not the American people)
Bob Cesca: Americans Simply Don't Do Sacrifice Anymore Aren't conservatives always talking about self-reliance and personal responsibility? It goes without saying that conservatives will be the last ones to make any changes.

White House Guts Reform To Protect CEO Pay (your business-friendly" Pres as work)
Jobs Bill Bombs In Senate, 45-52 (DiFi, net worth $75mil says suck.it.up.unemployed)
Limbaugh attacks school lunches, suggests hungry children should "dumpster dive" | Media Matters for America (let them eat garbage)
GOP Shields Angle And Paul To Avoid Making Them Face Of '10 | TPMDC (stupid and insane Republicans!)
The Christian Reconstructionism Behind Sharron Angle's Independent American Party | Religion Dispatches
What Would It Take to Fully Invest in the Northeast Corridor? « The Transport Politic almost $100 billion investment between Washington and Boston. Amtrak confirms it’s evaluating constructing another Hudson River tunnel (Atrios: "we should remember that the military wants another emergency supplemental bill for $33 billion") (but not one penny for socialism!)

Jobless Claims Stay Stubbornly Higher; Inflation Ebbs - CNBC initial claims for jobless benefits rose by 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 472,000, the highest level in a month (not coming down, no unemployment comp for you)
Senate Accepts Expanded Fed Audit
‘Too Young Not to Work but Too Old to Work’ « The Washington Independent (Republicans: increase retirement for everybody (else) to 80, they're just lazy anyway)
So What Do We Know About Policies to Successfully Move the Long-Term Unemployed Back to Where They Ought to Be? - Grasping Reality with Both Hands ("We are really going to need such policies in a year. That is all.")

Sexual trauma may spark mental health problems Traumatic sexual incidents may cause serious mental health problems in the years after the events, research at the University of Ulster has shown - sexual trauma plays a role in the development of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia (which was supposed to be a genetic disease)
A drug that could make you live 30 percent longer - but only if you're fertile a gene called Ash-2.
Mutations on three genes could predispose people to suicidal behaviour These three genes code the 5-HT1E serotonin receptor (HTR1E, SNP rs10944288); the pi subunit of the A gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor (GABRP, SNP hCV8953491); and the alpha-2-actinin (ACTN2, SNP rs707216) subunit of the ionotropic glutamate receptor channel
First replicating creature spawned in life simulator - physics-math - 16 June 2010 - New Scientist

California Ethics Commission finds Mormons guilty on 13 counts of late Prop 8 campaign reporting he Mormon Church was fined $5538 in an agreement worked out ending the 19 month long investigation (yeah, that'll teach 'em)
Gail Posner's Dog Conchita Recieves Dead Heiress's Massive Inheritance The New York Post reports that Posner has left her $8.3 million Miami mansion and a $3 million trust fund to her beloved pooches, including one named Conchita (the priorites of stupid rich people)

The Sneaky, Unexpected Ways Anti-Choice Right-Wingers Are Chipping Away at Women's Rights | Civil Liberties | AlterNet Since Roe v. Wade passed, anti-choice groups have been waging a war on abortion rights. This year it's been even worse (good job, compromising Dems)
t r u t h o u t | Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds

Atlas of True Names
Language Log » Atlas of True(?) Names
languagehat.com: atlas of true names.

Italian Recipes-Great Chicago Italian Recipes and Cooking
YouTube - Malena Ernman & Martin Fröst in Flight of the Bumblebee (toning)
YouTube - MisterSharp's Channel - The Perils of Lesbianity
stuff no one told me

Internet 'Kill Switch' Would Give President Power To Shut Down The Web A new Senate bill, sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman
US Government Told Piracy Losses Are Exaggerated | TorrentFreak many of the estimates of piracy losses touted by the entertainment industries were inflated or misleading ("inflate" = "lie")
HP partners with Yahoo for targeted ads - Computerworld (spam your printer, yo)
WordPress 3.0: Ultimate Guide to New Features
An Exercise in Wordpress Integration, or Why Wordpress Sucks | PHP vs .Net
Build a Website - Create a Blog - Squarespace
Squarespace: Could It Make Web Designers Redundant?
Squarespace 2010 - TopTenREVIEWS

061610
Editorial - The Truth About ‘Bloody Sunday’ - NYTimes.com “What happened on ‘Bloody Sunday’ was both unjustified and unjustifiable.”
Nepal Travel Warning: U.S. Warns Against Visiting Nepal
Militant Group Expands Attacks in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
WikiLeaks Founder Has Garani Massacre Video, According to New Email - The Daily Beast
Senators Challenge Afghan Deadline - NYTimes.com
Is Blackwater's Erik Prince Moving to the United Arab Emirates? | The Nation The Middle Eastern nation, a major hub for the US war industry, has no extradition treaty with the United States.
Spain Moves Toward Restricting Burqa
Financial Scandals: The Hidden Wealth of the Catholic Church - spiegel online
Ariel, Luna Maya Sex Tape: Indonesia's First Celebrity Sex Tape Scandal "I may be obsolete, but I don't see that sex education in schools is needed," he told reporters. "I believe people will learn about sex naturally."
German Government Approval Rating: 86 Percent Dissatisfied with Angela Merkel's government and the chancellor's own popularity has hit a new low.
Border Patrol Shooting Video: Footage Emerges Of Moments Before Teenager Was Shot U.S. agent may have crossed the border in order to shoot the boy (throwing rocks; Palestine all over again)
U.S. Citizen, Placed on No-Fly List, Is Stranded in Cairo - NYTimes.com “The lady told me that Columbus sailed the ocean blue a long time ago when there were no planes,” (and you can swim home if it's so important to you)
BBC News - UN warship hearing angers N Korea
Newburgh Terror Case May Set a Line for Entrapment - NYTimes.com
First, China. Next: the Great Firewall of... Australia? - time (joins China and Iran, good job Oz)

Israel To Vote On Easing Gaza Blockade
CounterPunch: Paying the Price for Objectivity Toward Palestinians: Helen Thomas: an Appreciation By Paul Craig Roberts, an editor of the Wall Street Journal and an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury - The bought-and-paid-for US Congress voted, on the instructions of their master, the Israel Lobby, to deep-six the Goldstone Report by a vote of 344 to 36. Amazing, isn’t it, there were only 36 US Representatives who were not owned by the Israel Lobby (the de-selected fact)

Scientists: Oil leaking up to 2.52M gallons daily (up from 5,000)
Government Doubles BP Leak Estimate To 60,000 Barrels Per Day (your lying eyes at work)
BP Agrees to Create Fund to Pay for Spill - NYTimes.com
How Much Will BP Really Pay? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
Day 56 - The Latest on the Oil Spill - NYTimes.com
Reducing U.S. Oil Consumption - Council on Foreign Relations
Estimates of Oil Flow Jump Higher - NYTimes.com (they just can't tell the truth)
News Analysis - With Call to Arms, Obama Seeks to Shift Arc of Oil Crisis - NYTimes.com (FAIL)
At Meeting, Obama Setting Terms for BP Claims Fund - NYTimes.com
BP engineer's testimony contradicted by e-mail released by congressional investigators | NOLA.com Hafle expressed concerns in the week before the April 20 disaster on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, calling the Macondo well 5,000 feet below that rig "a crazy well."
Obama's Oil Spill Speech: Running On Empty | Mother Jones (pathetic)
Obama's Oil Spill Speech: What Was The Point?
Obama's Oil Speech Panned: Short On Details, Broader Climate Plan
Robert Reich: Obama's Missed Opportunity to Tell it Like it Is - The man who electrified the nation with his speech at the Democratic National Convention of 2004 put it to sleep Tuesday night
Gulf Oil Spill: Cuba Preparing For Possible Wave Of Oil
Oil Executives Try to Explain Differences From BP - NYTimes.com publicly blamed BP for mishandling the well that caused the disaster.
Rep. Ed Markey: Waking America From the BP Nightmare
The rise and fall of BP | Business | The Guardian In its 100-year history, BP has been dogged by appalling accidents and an absence of diplomacy. Can it ever reinvent itself? Andrew Simms reports
t r u t h o u t | EXCLUSIVE: New Documents, Employees Reveal BP's Alaska Oilfield Plagued by Major Safety Issues (you don't say)

Obama Calls for Energy Reform—But Doesn’t Mention a Carbon Cap - Ecocentric - TIME.com
Jon Stewart Blasts Obama for War-Related Lies, Broken Promises
Op-Ed Columnist - Can The One Drop the Buzzer-Beating No. 23 Act? - NYTimes.com So it’s unnerving now to have yet another president elevating personal quirks into a management style (sorta like Nixon)
When Mama Grizzlies Rebut | Firedoglake
Iowa Politics Insider: Profiling helps in law enforcement, King says | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register (rightwingers can say anything)

Sen. Hatch wants unemployed to face mandatory drug tests - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room (because that's why they don't have jobs: Republicans at work)
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Shares To Be Pulled From NYSE
Commercial Brokers Fight Back in a Post-Boom World - NYTimes.com
Shutting the Doors: A Decade of Bank Failures | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice

Overcoming Bias : Are Drugs About Sex? (war on drugs turns out to be war on free love)
Sex, drugs and moral goals: Study of reproductive strategies and recreational drug use
Insulin that doesnt need a fridge or a needle
The 'God particle' may exist in five forms, Large Hadron Collider's rival project finds - Telegraph
Jupiter Impact: Mystery of the Missing Debris
Durham astronomers' doubts about the 'dark side'
How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs (1. therapy; 2. sunlight. 3. exercise 4. diet: tryptophan, sorta)

Public Safety Agencies Aim to Stop Spectrum Auction - NYTimes.com (you don't need no steenking 911)
Why is it OK to send 16-year-old Abby Sunderland sailing solo around the world if her parents can't afford to pay for her rescue? | MLive.com Abby's mother said, "We're not wealthy people. What price would you put on a child's life?" (should have thought that one through)

The media's understanding of its role - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - holding government officials accountable is not actually their purpose (+highschool)
PressThink: Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: On the Actual Ideology of the American Press (+stupidity)

YouTube - Chinese dancers or something
YouTube - Tortoise helps tortoise
YouTube - Cranbrook Deer

How 4G phones will change the way we use cellphones | DVICE

061510
David Petraeus COLLAPSES During Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing (video)
Setbacks Cloud U.S. Plans to Get Out of Afghanistan - NYTimes.com ("clouds")
Awareness Of Outside World Growing In North Korea : NPR
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Edward “Ted” M Kennedy
FBI Releases Thousands Of Documents About Senator Edward M. Kennedy : NPR
Ron Suskind: The Way of the World Transcripts , if you've ever seen the vice president's stationery, it's on the White House letterhead (Cheney forged letter linking Saddam to 9/11)
BBC News - Key findings

BBC News - Irish to expel Israeli diplomat over Hamas killing

Does the White House Understand That It, Not BP, Is the Government? | The Seminal (SATSQ: "no")
Michael Bromwich Named To Head Minerals Management Service , a former assistant U.S. attorney and Justice Department inspector general, will lead a reorganization of the Minerals Management Service.
Onshore Oil Spill Response Is Described as Chaotic - NYTimes.com (completely disorganized, except for the part about no pictures)
Foreign flagging of offshore rigs skirts some U.S. safety rules - latimes.com The Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico was built in South Korea. It was operated by a Swiss company under contract to a British oil firm. Primary responsibility for safety and other inspections rested not with the U.S. government but with the Republic of the Marshall Islands — a tiny, impoverished nation in the Pacific Ocean.
Exxon, BP CEOs: It Was 'Embarrassment' To Include Walruses In Gulf Response Plan (themselves)
Oil Executives Try to Explain Differences From BP - NYTimes.com - BP Spill Is an Aberration (and sorry about your Gulf of Mexico)
The Rachel Maddow Show
BP sets up floating hotels for Gulf oil spill cleanup workers – USATODAY.com 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes that contain dormitory style beds (and no a/c)
Beck suggests that Obama won't meet with head of BP because "he's a white CEO" | Media Matters for America (meanwhile, on planet Insane)

Bill seeks to curb corporate political spending - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sacramento Bee
Do laws even matter today? - Usatoday.com 60% of people supporting the Arizona law
Sidebar - Governor Refuses to Free Man, Despite Son’s Efforts - NYTimes.com (God, is Brewer scary-looking)
Rep. Steve King Suggests Illegal Immigrants Can Be Spotted By Their Shoes Or A "Sixth Sense" | Political Correction
Families in 9/11 Financing Case Ask to Have Judge Replaced - NYTimes.com hold charities, financial institutions and other defendants responsible for providing money and other support to Al Qaeda and for the 9/11 attacks.
John Haggerty Indicted Over Bloomberg Campaign Funds - NYTimes.com (hey, it's what they do)
The Plum Line - Sharron Angle floated possibility of armed insurrection
NRA Remains The King On The Hill House Democrats granted the National Rifle Association a nearly exclusive exemption from the stringent new standards that they were applying for campaign finance disclosure

Volcker: New Government Powers Won't Be Able To Dismantle Megabanks; Too Big To Fail Lives Despite Reform Bill (another Obama flip-flop-flop)
Franken Battling Frank On Wall Street Reform Under Franken's proposed system, raters would be assigned randomly to a financial institution, leaving them with the freedom to issue a poor rating without fear of losing business -- raters who are more accurate will get more business (Frank: "untested" offers to "study the issue" - of course it's fucking untested)
Calculated Risk: Fed's Bullard on the Economy he U.S. economy would be fully "recovered" from the very sharp downturn of late 2008 and early 2009."
AXA: Eurozone Breakup a Real Possibility « naked capitalism
I Haven't Heard Anything that Hints That This Sort of Thing Is a Consideration at All... - Grasping Reality with Both Hands Goldman Sachs' latest forecast (and they've been pretty accurate so far) is that unemployment will rise to 9.9% by early 2011 and trend down to 9.7% for the last quarter of 2011. Obviously, this is a simply awful scenario but it seems one that is being accepted. That is, we seem to be in the process of accepting the unacceptable.
Hullabaloo: Basic Arithmetic - Any deficit scold who doesn't put reducing health care costs at the very top of the agenda is just a demagogic crank doing the dirty work for the aristocratic overlords.
Change The Way We Measure Poverty - Hartford Courant White House wants to inch toward better measurements

The Real Science Gap | Miller-McCune Online not insufficient schooling or a shortage of scientists. It’s a lack of job opportunities
New look at chemical safety - Baltimore Sun High cancer rates rightly inspire reexamination of how we regulate toxic substances ("regulate?" bahhahaha)
Records Toppled as NOAA Releases Latest Surface Temperature Data | WWF Climate Blog - global surface temperatures this Spring rose to record levels.
In the Hunt for Planets, Who Owns the Data? - NYTimes.com (scientists and their smoke-filled rooms)

Long Road to Adulthood Is Growing Even Longer - NYTimes.com (somewhere around 60)
An investigation into the startling fraud accusations that have upended the fine wine world. - By Mike Steinberger - Slate Magazine An investigation into the startling fraud accusations that have upended the fine wine world.
Bloggingheads: Gay Rights vs. Religion - Video Library - The New York Times (the freedom to be a bigot, yay NYT)
Handling of 'abduction' case involving teen has been absurd - OrlandoSentinel.com (14 yo helps lost 3 yo find mother, charges with abduction)
Remember the 14-year-old kid in Orlando arrested for "abducting" a little girl? Here's the other side of the story. : reddit.com
468 – Crime Topography of San Francisco « Strange Maps
Map: Where Americans Are Moving - Forbes.com
Information is beautiful: 30 examples of creative infography

OKCupid Is Hiding The Good-Looking People From Us Ugly Freaks - The Consumerist
Hacker News | Google Checkout Nightmare and the $126,000 phone call Google Checkout Nightmare and the $126,000 phone call

061410
Rethink Afghanistan - Hulu
Eschaton: And Speaking Of Hundreds of Billions: we've spent roughly $250 billion on the war in Afghanistan. The CIA tells me annual GDP is about $25 billion there (was killing people a wise use of the money?)
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com (Times stenos DOD propaganda)
The Mineral Miracle? Or A Massive Information Operation? - Politics - The Atlantic ("The Soviets knew this in 1985" Bush knew it in 2007)
Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community Let Afghanistan become the indispensable source of laptop batteries. That is so much more hopeful than the source of heroin.
Matthew Yglesias » Afghan Minerals News: Less Than Meets The Eye? For one thing, the findings on which the story was based are online and have been since 2007
The Pentagon’s Afghan Mineral Hype « Unsilent Generation
Coca Production Makes a Comeback in Peru - NYTimes.com (Republican/Obama war on drugz is a huge failure; maybe they'll find lithium in Peru)

YouTube - Israeli soldiers murdering Peace Activist on The Freedom Flotilla
Red Cross: Gaza blockade illegal - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

BP Engineer Called Deepwater Horizon 'Nightmare Well' Days Before Blast, Oil Spill
Nieman Watchdog > Ask This > The BP disaster underscores government as the problem, not the solution
Oil spill coats Louisiana's Barataria Bay | al.com
"We Don't Need This on Camera": BP's Crappy Cleanup Job | Mother Jones
How Obama decided to expand offshore oil drilling - KansasCity.com - "This is not a decision that I've made lightly" "Oil rigs today generally don't cause spills," he added two days later
What Does the Gulf Oil Industry Look Like? » Sociological Images
Pressed by Obama, BP Weighs Options on Dividend - NYTimes.com (but dividends are a Constitutional right!)
BP: its 10 biggest shareholders - Telegraph (oooh, all those little old British ladies on pensions!)

The U.S. wins the right to abduct innocent people with impunity - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (increasingly Obama's true colors)
Border Patrol Texas Arizona Predator drones | PressDemocrat.com (racial-profiling from 10,000 ft)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive (Times op-ed telling Obama to be LESS partian: rimshot)
Rand Paul Not Board Certified: Kentucky Senate Hopeful Faces Challenge From Medical Panel
Tea Party Candidates Begin Toning Down Their Views -- On Fox News, No Less (video)
The Very Angry Tea Party - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com - In truth, there is nothing that the Tea Party movement wants; terrifyingly, it wants nothing. (but destruction)
Eric Balderas, Harvard Student Brought To U.S. From Mexico At Age 4, May Be Deported (Obama hates immigrants)
Candidate May Have Lied About Heroic Death In Vietnam | The Onion

Monetary policy: Shouting fire amid a flood | The Economist
Lawmakers' committee assignments and industry investments overlap (of course they do)
Obama's Treasury Dept Working To Defeat Derivatives Proposal 'Of Utmost Importance' To Reforming Wall Street
Debt Burden Falls Heavily on Germany and France - NYTimes.com French and German banks have lent nearly $1 trillion to the most troubled European countries and are more exposed to the debt crisis than the banks of any other countries (bailing out the banks, not the countries)
Government to Use Direct Deposit, Stop Printing Checks - ABC News White House Orders Government to Stop Mailing Paper Checks, Switch to Electronic Transfers
In jail for being in debt | StarTribune.com More Minnesotans are surprised to find themselves being locked up over debts (Republicans bring back debtor's prison)
The New Due Date to Get the Completed Ms. to Editor Tim Sullivan Is August 1... - Grasping Reality with Both Hands if the unemployment rate continues to kiss 10% for two more years, then the odds are that we will find that our long-term unemployed have become effectively unemployable, and that we will have a mammoth structural unemployment problem that cannot be solved either by Keynesian aggregate-demand stimulus or by the osmotic adaptation of the structure of production.

FOXNews.com - Overexposed: US leads the world in radiation from medical tests, raising cancer concern
In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday - NYTimes.com nine-day, $15,000 course at Singularity University,
One Percent Club | Singularity University Those students who start new companies (coming out of SU or SU relations) are encouraged to donate 1% (non-dilutive) or 5% (of Founding Equity) of their company to SU (muhahaha)
Congratulations Human, You've Been Accepted to Singularity University
Congratulations Human, You've Been Accepted to Singularity University
3039066439_2bd30d567d.jpg (the crushing vacuousness of Ray Kurzweil)

Do Kids Still Matter to Marriage? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - As an ingredient to a happy marriage, kids were far from essential, ranking eighth behind good sex, sharing chores, adequate income and a nice house, among other things.
Old Hag: This Thing Looks Like This; Or, Maintain mental purchase but…

I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire - NYTimes.com
Starbucks to Offer Free AT&T Wi-Fi Service July 1 - Investing - Breaking News - SmartMoney.com eliminating a $3.99 fee for two hours of access ... several months after McDonald's Corp. (MCD) also dropped all access fees on wireless Internet service

061310
Tensions high after ethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan - CNN.com
Kyrgyzstan Ethnic Violence Spreads: Rioters Target Uzbek Villages - More than 75,000 Uzbek refugees have fled in panic to the nearby border with Uzbekistan. Some Uzbek women and children were gunned down as they tried to escape
Op-Ed Columnist - The Courage to Leave Afghanistan - NYTimes.com There is no good news coming out of the depressing and endless war in Afghanistan. There once was merit to our incursion there, but that was long ago. Now we’re just going through the tragic motions, flailing at this and that, with no real strategy or decent end in sight (McCrystal FAIL)
U.S. Intelligence Puts New Focus on Afghan Graft - NYTimes.com ("new")
Suspect Is Held in Dubai Killing - NYTimes.com - “It looks like there are links to a foreign intelligence agency.” (Times write entire story without mentioning the word "Israel" - way to go, NYT)

French Protest of Israeli Raid Reaches Wide Audience - NYTimes.com (French ADL jumps into action)

Obama Plans to Force BP’s Hand on Oil Spill Fund - NYTimes.com - “The president will use his legal authority to compel them,” said Robert Gibbs (and that would be?)
Obama To Demand BP Create Liability Account For Spill Claims
Lessons in Accountability: Escrow Accounts for BP, Bailouts for Wall Street | The Seminal (our naive, "business-friendly" Pres and his education in reality)
Boehner: Lift Liability Cap for BP - Political Punch (which way is the wind blowing today?)
Olive: Tony Hayward, the anti-crisis manager - thestar.com
Think gas is too pricey? Think again. According to the Energy Information Administration, the average price of a gallon of gas was $2.72 last week. It should really be as high as $4.37 (subsidized gas is an American right!)
Florida Skips Offshore Oil Binge but Still Pays - NYTimes.com (maybe they should sue Louisiana?)
U.S. Gives BP 48 Hours to Boost Containment Capacity - Bloomberg.com - (1,248 hours later)
YouTube - BP Blocking Media Access? New Orleans interview
Oil Spill May Spur Action on Energy, Probably Not on Climate - NYTimes.com (Rahm's idiotic "grand bargain" didn't work out)
Robert Reich: Why the United States Still Can't Get BP to Do What's Necessary Yet BP is still in control of what's happening in Gulf to stop the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
Under siege by Marcellus marauders - More than a thousand Marcellus Shale drill sites are in the works, with tens of thousands more poised to descend on Penn's Woods, its towns and neighborhoods, threatening to poison water tables, suck streams dry, pollute the air with ear-splitting noise and toxic fumes -- all without meaningful regulation, without meaningful taxation (thanks to Ed "Drill, Baby, Drill" Rendell)
Utah Oil Spill (photos): 500 Barrels Spill Into Red Butte Creek After Pipeline Breaks (oil, oil, toil and trouble)
"Gasland" . NOW on PBS Will the boom in natural gas drilling contaminate America's water supply? ("will?" +Bush/Cheney you don't need no steeking clean water bill)
Oil spill: The Lakeview gusher of 1910 dwarfs the gulf spill of today - latimes.com (without the being spread over thousands of square miles and killing all the fish and ruining toursim parts)

Op-Ed Columnist - Obama and the Media - Isn’t It Ironic? - NYTimes.com Obama refuses to deal with the media world as it is. He’s holding out for the media world that he wants.
Arizona Immigration: Authorities Raid Sizzler Restaurants, Arrest Undocumented Workers (profiling by restaurant)
FOXNews.com - At Convention, Texas GOP Passes Immigration Plank Similar to Arizona Law

Obama Warns Of 'Massive Layoffs Of Teachers, Police, And Firefighters' (but what about the deficit?!)
Obama pleads for $50 billion in state, local aid ("pleads" +no consistent message from Obama so this gets labeled as "bailouts")

A Decade Later, Human Genome Project Yields Few New Cures - NYTimes.com
Doctor and Patient - An Important Vaccine Few Patients Are Getting - NYTimes.com Although only one dose is required, the vaccination costs $160 to $195 per dose, 10 times more than other commonly prescribed adult vaccines; and insurance carriers vary in the amount they will cover.
New birth control pill re-ignites debate - UPI.com Ella promises to increase that time frame to at last 120 hours, HRA Pharma says (the "week-after" pill)
List of animals by number of neurons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (whales win!)
85% of Kids' Drinks, Snacks Could Contain High Levels of Lead | Inhabitots 125 out of 146 products—or more than 85%—contained enough lead in a single serving to warrant a warning label under California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986

The Public Editor - A Final Report From Internal Affairs - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com (Clark Hoyt says goodbye)
NYT, Republican Opposition Rag | Emptywheel Clark Hoyt has a really curious final column summarizing his three years as the NYT’s public editor.
Rent a White Guy - Magazine - The Atlantic

so hey.. remember zach? he is now number 1 by about a million votes. 4chan has finally done something good. : WTF
Is it time to reconsider Google Buzz vs Facebook or Twitter? — Scobleizer

061210
Nation & World | 1.3 million flee as China flooding kills 155 | Seattle Times Newspaper The office said 140,000 houses had collapsed and more than 1.3 million people had been moved to temporary shelter.
Magnitude 7.5 - NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
McChrystal: Kandahar operation 'will happen more slowly' | McClatchy (the plan isn't working)
Karzai Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban - NYTimes.com (smart guy)
Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites - Times Online
Terror Suspects Had Troubled Teenage Years - NYTimes.com He showed a particular fixation on the ideas that Muslim men should be bearded, and should hold one another’s hands.
Poland Arrests Alleged Mossad Agent: Official
AFP: 28th NATO soldier dies in Afghanistan this week (go Bushbama and your useless wars)
Bomb kills 2 Americans, 3 Iraqis on joint patrol - Yahoo! News(more useless deaths)
Quote For The Day II - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (BBC docu on North Korea)
Abby Sunderland Rescued By French Fishing Boat Dad: "In this day and age we get overprotective with our children. If you want to look at statistics, look at how many teenagers die in cars every year. Should we let teenagers drive cars? I think it'd be silly if we didn't." (because they are exactly the same thing)

Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security | McClatchy "economic warfare" against the Islamist group Hamas (you don't say)
Editorial - What Happened on the Mavi Marmara? - NYTimes.com (Israel lied, people died +no international investigation)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Chuck Schumer: Mainstream Democrat (and racist Jew)
Schumer Says Strangle Gaza Until They Do What We Want - Zaid Jilani - Youthful Populism - True/Slant

Former EPA Chief On Gulf Oil Spill: 'It's Going To Blow The Record Books Up' (but it's really good news for Republicans)
Potential Long-Term Damage From the Gulf Oil Spill - Video - time.com ("potential" = inevitable doom)
Spill-scene coordinator gives BP 48 hours to come up with more resources | NOLA.com (like they didn't know this a month ago)
A Tourist Mecca Fears a Long-Term Oil Smear - NYTimes.com ("years" but LA still totally drill, baby, drill)
BP Directors to Discuss Suspension of Dividends - NYTimes.com
BP's 8 dumbest mistakes - The Week
The Fox-industrial complex | Media Matters for America "The boom manufactured by Packgen did not pass an initial quality control test." (Republicans at work: government should buy our crappy, ineffectual product)

Balkinization Paging Dr. Mengele: Medical Experimentation and the CIA Detainees (Obama covering this up)
Administration Hardens Stance Against Leaks to Press - NYTimes.com (Pres Transparency hates whistle-blowers +even more of control freaks than Cheney/Bush)
The Washington Monthly - Coming To Terms With A 'Debilitating Energy Stalemate'.. It's tempting to think that conservative policymakers, if nothing else, would care about American competitiveness on the global stage (no, no, no; blowing people up is what makes America great!)
YouTube - More Votes Counted Than Ballots Cast In South Carolina Election (well?)
'Tea party' candidates hurt by lack of organization in movement
Anti-Establishment Candidates Take Power in GOP Senate Primaries | Elections
Arizona's Next Immigration Target: Children of Illegals - time
Oklahoma State Senator Aims To Stop 'Liberal Judges' From Imposing Sharia Law | TPM LiveWire (and while you weren't looking...)
Hullabaloo Protecting The Country From Liberal Mullahs - Somebody's got to stop all those liberal judges from imposing ultra-conservative Sharia Law and stoning gays and women who stray from God's path. Oh wait...what are we talking about again?
Rand Paul on mountaintop removal: "I don’t think anyone’s going to be missing a hill or two here and there" | Crooks and Liars - a typical out-of-touch country-club conservative Republican -- not to mention that he likewise manages to carry on his dad's tradition of right-wing extremism.
Come Saturday Morning: Minnesota Crime Scene | Firedoglake ("Gutshot" Pawlenty and the Republican war on intelligence)

Ezra Klein - My name is my name
Ezra's Model - And Mine - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Calculated Risk: N.Y. State "classic budgetary sleight-of-hand" they will borrow the money to make the payments to the pension fund — from the same pension fund.
Robert Reich: Why We Are Moving Toward a Recessionary Era, and Why Keynes is Being Exhumed
FBI to Begin Arresting People for Foreclosure Fraud? | The Seminal
Matthew Yglesias » Demystifying Charter Cities

The Wrong Stuff : On Air and On Error: This American Life's Ira Glass on Being Wrong
Books of The Times - ‘Being Wrong,’ by Kathryn Schulz - ‘Wrong,’ by David H. Freedman - NYTimes.com
Do We Really Want to Hear Someone Say ‘I Was Wrong’?: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com ("Bush")
Book Review - The Icarus Syndrome - By Peter Beinart - NYTimes.com
mySouTex.com - Father says he is sorry for science fair hoax (balloon-dad confirmed)
Legal Fight Delays Paper on Psychopathy Scale 3 Years - NYTimes.com
The Science of Gaydar
Op-Ed Contributor - The 40-Year Itch - NYTimes.com
Gobar Gas

'New York Times' Bans the Word 'Tweet' - The Awl
Apple would rather remove app than leave open-source license | NetworkWorld.com Community GNU Go has disappeared from the iTunes app store. Here's why - and why Apple is wrong (Jobs: open source is the same as porn)
Notepad++ new site: notepad-plus-plus.org | Current version : v5.6.8

061110
Home and Away: Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties - CNN.com (the tragic cost of evil)
The War is Making You Poor by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com
Memo To Deficit Hawks: Here's $1 Trillion To Cut -- From The Pentagon ways to tame the nation's long-term deficit, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Slashing benefits for the old and sick? Or taking a few whacks at the spectacularly bloated defense budget? (take a guess)
Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Hunted by Pentagon Over Massive Leak - The Daily Beast Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables (they're going to Predatorize him)
Transcript: Daniel Ellsberg Says He Fears US Might Assassinate Wikileaks Founder | FDL Action (you thought the Predator thing was a joke +Obama and state-sanctioned extra-legal executions)
YouTube - Obama's Crackdown On Whistle Blowers Targets Press Freedom
Journalistic balance at the expense of truth - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (vast majority of detainees wrongfully detained +the myth of "the left")
Silvio Berlusconi's attack on a free press belongs to the Mussolini age – Telegraph Blogs
Italy's senate passes wiretap restrictions bill Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won a major victory when Italy's Senate passed a controversial law to restrict wiretapping and impose fines on news organisations that publish leaked information on criminal probes.
Round-the-world teen sailor alive, well - today People
20 dead in Arkansas flooding - CNN.com

YouTube - Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara // Raw Footage
Israeli Navy Attacks Gaza Freedom Flotilla | Cultures of Resistance
New Video Smuggled Out from Mavi Marmara of Israel's Deadly Assault on Gaza Aid Flotilla
Victimhood is not an excuse for Israeli injustice - The National Newspaper , Israelis have been taught to see in the Holocaust a different message: that the world is plagued by a unique and ineradicable hatred of Jews, and that the only safety for the Jewish people is to be found in the creation of a super-power Jewish state that answers to no one. Put bluntly, Israel’s motto is: only Jewish power can prevent Jewish victimhood.
Think Progress » Schumer Says It ‘Makes Sense’ To ‘Strangle [Gaza] Economically’ Until It Votes The Way Israel Wants “they don’t believe in the Torah (divided loyalty much, Chuckie?)
Schumer’s Ugly Endorsement of Economic Apartheid | FDL News Desk
Two State Dissonance | The American Prospect Even apart from the Gaza flotilla attack, Jews can't reconcile the real Israel with some of their deepest assumption
Israel’s Greatest Loss: Its Moral Imagination - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News A million and a half civilians have been forced to live in an open-air prison in inhuman conditions for over three years now, but unlike the Hitler years, they are not Jews but Palestinians. Their jailers, incredibly, are survivors of the Holocaust, or their descendants.
Kill a Turk and Rest - Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc - Exodus 1947

Obama overlooked key points in giving OK to offshore drilling | McClatchy (not really a detail-guy +pathetic risk-assessment +Rahm's idiotic "grand bargain" with Lindsay Graham)
Video: Oil washes ashore on Alabama beach at Gulf Shores | al.com (smuggled out from media blackout)
Experts Double Estimated Rate of Spill in Gulf - NYTimes.com The new estimate is 25,000 to 30,000 barrels of oil a day. That range, still preliminary, is far above the previous estimate of 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day (not to mention "none" and "5,000")
BP: Is Team Obama Pushing for a Full Externalities Precedent? « naked capitalism “This demand is chilling,” said one executive in the meeting. “The administration keeps pushing the boundaries on what we are responsible for.” (not that hard, since they started with "zero")
ABC Reporter Hassled By BP: Days After Thad Allen Directed Open Access, Media Clampdown Continues (Coast Guard still taking orders from BP, Fourth Amendment suspending in Gulf)
Are Journalists Being Kept From the Oil Spill? | The Atlantic Wire
Riki Ott: From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence
Fox News Poll: Support for Offshore Drilling Down 26% in Two Months | The Seminal (to 44%)
Gulf Oil Spill: BP's Poor Record So Far Dulls Hope For Future Cutting off the snarled riser pipe in order to install a containment cap significantly increased the flow of oil and gas
Thad Allen, Obama's Oil Point Man, STILL Trusts Discredited BP CEO Tony Hayward (your BP/Coast Guard at work)
BofA: A "Conservative" Estimate Is That Deepwater Will Cost BP $28 BILLION | TPM LiveWire
Fox News strains to tie Obama administration to BP | Media Matters for America
Republicans Jubilant About Gulf Coast Oil Spill Coverage (Drill, Baby, Drill Jindal looks like Iron Man)
U.S. Fury at BP Stirs Backlash Among British - NYTimes.com
Rep. Nick Rahall to expand Minerals Management Service investigation - Jake Sherman - politico.com (look into the meth and prostitutes, please)

Rahm Emanuel persuaded Obama to play it cool on climate bill. Post-spill, will the game plan change? | Grist
Hullabaloo - Punk'd By A Grand Bargain Fantasy ... Again - Everyone believed Rahm's 2006 hype, but they were wrong. He's incompetent. The Republicans knew it and punk'd him -- and the country -- but good (these guys seem really naive and not that smart)
Chaos, Anarchy To Reign If Gov. David Paterson Shuts Down New York - wcbstv.com The clowns in the state Legislature, now deadlocked for 71 days on the budget, are ready to take down the "big tent" and bring state government to a standstill
A Letter to Chris Christie | Health Professionals & Allied Employees (Republicans: teachers are the enemy)
Shame on WSJ and NYT for ignoring Salon's Arlington Cemetery reporting | Media Matters for America (your elite newspapers at work: stealing other peoples stories with no credit)

Matthew Yglesias » Small Business Federation Says Firms Are Facing a Crisis of Demand (who could have predicted that would happen with no fucking jobs)
We learn why they hate social security | Angry Bear a nostalgic reminiscence for the good old days when Americans faced debtors prisons and had no sense of “entitlement” (presumably to the Social Security and Medicare benefits workers already paid for their entire working lives)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect more than 3 million children in rural areas who benefit from the extension of the child tax credit in the stimulus package might lose it (rural poor not real Americans (rich Republicans) either)

Corporate General Counsel Puts Fear of God into Legal Educators (And You Should Be Worried Too) « Above the Law: A Legal Tabloid - News, Gossip, and Colorful Commentary on Law Firms and the Legal Profession
Love hormone Oxytocin helps soldiers like each other and hate the enemy - Telegraph Soldiers form loyal "Bands of Brothers" fighting and dying for each other because they have the same instincts that cause mothers to ferociously protect their newborns, a study suggests
Why men will judge a woman in milliseconds - Telegraph but they should not be called shallow because they are genetically programmed to do so, scientists say (women not as shallow)
Museum of Animal Perspectives (M.A.P.)

Institute for the Future of the Book
The Atlantic :: Magazine :: Our Houses, Our Selves A new crop of books suggests that for women, obsession with real estate is replacing obsession with love and marriage.
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off - Magazine - The Atlantic (end of marriage)
YouTube - The Orson Welles Sketchbook Episode 4 Part 1
Florida Teacher Jaretta Hamilton Fired for Becoming Pregnant Out of Wedlock - ABC News Woman Conceived Just Days Before Wedding, but School Fired Her for 'Fornication' (Christians at work)
Five New Orleans Police Officers Indicted In Post-Katrina Shooting, Burning

AVP Redemption on Vimeo
Groklaw - Stewart Rules: Novell Wins! case closed!
iPhone On T-Mobile? May Be Soon, Analyst Says
How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites - Smashing Magazine
Help - How to Delete Accounts from Any Website Tips, Solutions & How Tos | PCMag.com
Delete Your Account

061010
When Will Afghan Army Be Ready to Relieve U.S. Troops? - Time (SATSQ: "no")
The Vietnam War | Landmines | In Vietnam, cluster bombs still plague countryside | Cluster Bombs At the present rate, UXO clearance will take 300 years.
Views Show How North Korea Policy Spread Misery - NYTimes.com
Amnesty links U.S. to "Abyan massacre" - The Majlis
Officials: Taliban executes boy, 7, for spying - CNN.com
Three Charts to Break Your Heart - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine (prison-state America)
BBC News - Thousands of anti-terror searches were illegal Thousands of people across the UK might have been stopped and searched illegally
Abby Sunderland, Teen Sailor Possibly Lost at Sea - ABC News Crew Receives Repeated Distress Signals, Loses Contact With 16-Year-Old Attempting Circumnavigation
Man in Brazil jails daughter, has 7 kids with her - Yahoo! News

AFP: US Senator unveils pro-Israel resolution in flotilla feud Republican Senator John Cornyn (Abe Foxman just called him up)
John McQuaid: The Real Helen Thomas Scandal the debate shifted from Israel behaving badly to Helen Thomas behaving badly.
Tony Judt - Talking About Israel, Without the Clichés - NYTimes.com (Jews "running the country" on every issue that matters to Israel, Tony)
Formidable Opponent - Michael Oren | June 9, 2010 - Sam Nunn | ColbertNation.com Michael Oren defends Israel's flotilla raid and explains why he does not support an international investigation into the incident (just tell the Palestinians to go back to whereever they came from)

Study: Spill bigger than previously thought - Washington Post- msnbc.com Scientists say busted well most likely spewed 30,000 barrels daily (what amazing about this is the co-optation of NOAA by Obama's spin machine)
Chamber Of Commerce Says Taxpayers Should Help Pay For BP Spill Cleanup; GOP Leader Agrees, Then Recants ... this is one of those times when the words "federal government" is used as a euphemism for "American taxpayers." (Boehner's oil boner)
Boehner: Government--i.e. Taxpayers--Should Help Pay For Oil Spill | TPMDC
Gulf oil spill: Why BP's cap success is turning sour - CSMonitor.com BP's containment cap is collecting 630,000 gallons of oil a day. It could be collecting more, but BP failed to send another tanker to increase capacity. And some scientists think the process of fitting the cap on the well made the situation worse (half-assed +much worse)
BP and Officials Block Some Coverage of Spill - NYTimes.com (most successful press-censorship operation since the Iraq war +BP owns the Coast Guard +wtf?)
BP Now Valued At Less Than Its Assets BP's stock plummeted to a 14-year low
Can the U.S. Punish BP’s Shareholders? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
BBC News - Oil spill: BP shares slide as crisis continues (UK wants liability cap)
Matt Simmons, Dr. Doom of the Gulf Coast spill - Jun. 9, 2010
Trust me (what could possibly go wrong?)
Editorial Observer - The Reality of Life for Louisiana Fishermen Is an Unpalatable Choice - NYTimes.com On Friday, Mr. Nguyen finally landed a job that promises $2,300 a day and something of a future: cleaning up oil for BP (might have said that's for his boat, fuel, etc)
Obama meets with relatives of oil rig blast victims - CNN.com
As BP promised, the walruses are fine: Stephanie Grace | NOLA.com Out in the Gulf, a spill might cause "some detrimental effects" on fish habitats, the report concedes, but it would likely be "sub-lethal." Both finfish and shellfish, the company pointed out, can swim away (muhahaha)
Offshore Drilling Halt Puts Louisiana Congressman Charlie Melancon In Tough Spot (oil-drenched Lousiana totally against drilling moratorium; what would it take to change their minds?)
BP oil leak aftermath: Slow-motion tragedy unfolds for marine life | Environment | The Guardian The wildlife haven Grand Isle is at the heart of the environmental catastrophe engulfing Louisiana (apparently, this is not enough)
Jim Sensenbrenner, BP Investor And GOP Congressman, Won't Recuse Himself From Oil Spill Hearings (oh, of course not)
Rise in Offshore Spills Raises Wider Questions on Drilling - ProPublica
Dick Cheney's Last Laugh | Mother Jones The Deepwater Horizon disaster raises new questions about the Bush administration's secret energy task force.
Robert Menendez: Oil Spill Will Be A Political Issue In 2010 Elections (the drill, baby, drill crowd)
Daily Kos: Poll: Florida voters oppose 51 - 42 percent increasing the amount of offshore oil drilling, a 48-point swing from the 66 - 27 percent support for drilling in an April 19 survey
YouTube - BP Spills Coffee

Think tank: Neocons’ influence remains strong under Obama | Raw Story (still doing Israel's bidding)
Hullabaloo: digby: Where Did Their Love Go? (Obama hates having his Blue-Dogs challenged)
Primary Results: So Much For That Anti-Incumbent Rage! Another primary day has come and gone and, once again, the big loser is one of your generic media narratives
Sharron Angle: Nevada Candidate Already Providing Treasure Chest Of Goodies For Harry Reid (wants to bring back prohibition, get rid of IRS, EPA, Dept. of Ed (especially that last one) +teh teacrazies)
AMERICAblog News: House Liberal Dems. finally figured out they're getting screwed by Blue Dogs (they believed them)
Daily Kos: Lincoln, with us on everything but allowing EPA to do its work Blanche Lincoln voted for Murkowski's resolution, the resolution President Obama had vowed to veto, should it pass. Lincoln was joined, surprise, by Evan Bayh, Mark Pryor, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, and Jay Rockefeller. So did those great Republican moderates, Snowe, Collins, and Scott Brown. And so it goes. (there they are)
Hispanics flee Arizona ahead of immigration law - usatoday.com
Language Log » Is Nikki Haley a manizer?

Top Fiscal Hawk On Fed Supports Restricting Banks' Derivatives Bets, Goes FURTHER Than Obama
Personal Finance NewsReel - WSJ.com - Bond Giant Pimco Buys Treasurys in Recent Weeks
Feds Didn't Do Enough To Avoid 'Poisonous' AIG Bailout And Now Changing Story To Defend It, Watchdog Says
Matthew Yglesias » The View From Two Years Ago how the Fed saw things in June 2008 (5% unemployment!)
House Targets Underwater Homeowners The House GOP launched an assault Thursday on homeowners who walk away from underwater mortgages, arguing that such foreclosed-on former homeowners are using the money they save to dine out and go on cruises (homeownes are the new welfare queens)
The Atlantic :: Magazine :: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty

The Atlantic :: Magazine :: The End of Men - couples were requesting more girls than boys, a gap that has persisted, even though Ericsson advertises the method as more effective for producing boys (some clinics 2:1) ("Men dominate just two of the 15 job categories projected to grow the most over the next decade: janitor and computer engineer.")
WB - Statistics & Data - Quick Stats on Women Workers, 2009
Employed persons by detailed occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
Many U.S. Jobs Have Become Less Male-dominated
Male–female income disparity in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bat, Bean, Beam - A Weblog on Memory and Technology: The Happy Worker
The Female Factor - In Sweden, the Men Can Have It All - NYTimes.com
Economist's View: "21st Century Regress"

Why did nearly all life on Earth die 250 million years ago? (see the Great Dying video for perspective)
World's largest DNA scan reveals rare variants that disrupt gene activity in autistic children (call Jenny McCarthy)
Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis : Tetrapod Zoology
Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench
SPACE.com -- New Comet Visible in Early Morning Sky

U. of California Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Costs - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education The current average cost for the Nature group's journals is $4,465; under the 2011 pricing scheme, that would rise to more than $17,000 per journal, according to the California Digital Library (yay, privitisation)
Re: Informational Update on a Possible UC Systemwide Boycott of the Nature Publishing Group
Press release archive: About NPG ("we're not rip-off artists, really" and we're not going to mention actual, you know, prices)
Financial highlights - Annual Report 2008 - Reed Elsevier
PHD Comics: Nature vs. Science, pt. 2

The Female Factor - In Sweden, the Men Can Have It All - NYTimes.com
Videoconferencing Is Used to Administer Abortion Drugs - NYTimes.com
Flojuggler

Freethought Today - FFRF Publications
Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club : Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Fuck the South
The 'Alejandro' Video: Lady Gaga and Failures of Pastiche - The Awl
YouTube - Tour De France (Remi Gaillard)
YouTube - The Stupid Cup (Rémi Gaillard)
Larry Niven's Ringworld

Analyst Challenges Apple's iPhone 4 'Retina Display' Claims | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Joyce’s Ulysses Banned Again—by Apple, Not the Government | The Big Money (Big Brother Steve)
Judge may dismiss 4,576 of 4,577 P2P defendants from lawsuit
15 genius algorithms that aren't boring
Apple's "evil/genius" plan to punk the Web and gild the iPad (+un-blockable iAds!)

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FAS: Global Strike Report (PDF) the US plan to put Predators in space so they can kill anyone, anytime and destabilize the world
List of countries by Failed States Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
U.N. votes to slap new sanctions on Iran - CNN.com
NATO Helicopter Shot Down in Helmand Province - NYTimes.com (what are we doing there, again?)
Misreading Tehran – By Reza Aslan, Abbas Milani, Azar Nafisi, and others | Foreign Policy Leading Iranian-American writers revisit a year of dreams and discouragement.
Islamic Republic Implementing Mass Executions in Advance of One-Year Anniversary of Iranian Uprising | Persian2English
BBC News - Poland castration law takes effect that can force some rapists and paedophiles to undergo chemical castration
Chowk: Current Affairs: Drone Attacks May Stop, But Is That Good News? A twenty-nine page report submitted today to the UN Human Rights Council, by special representative Philip Alston demanding an immediate suspension of drone attacks will not persuade Obama’s war cabinet to change course; but an ever growing domestic opposition appears promising.

Obama Calls Gaza Situation ‘Unsustainable,’ Announces Aid Plan - BusinessWeek he U.S. will provide $400 million in aid for housing, school construction and other infrastructure improvements in Gaza and the West Bank to help improve the “day-to-day life” of Palestinians
How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - This campaign of suppression and propaganda worked to shape American media coverage (as state propaganda campaigns virtually always work on the gullible, authority-revering American media).
In Helen Thomas case, the world sees a taboo being enforced (say Jews out of Isael, get fired; say Palestinians out of Palestine, get high-paying job on Fox)
Dana Milbank - The sad farewell of Helen Thomas
Chowk: Current Affairs: Israel and the Distortion of American Politics

The Spill, The Scandal and the President | Rolling Stone Politics - Like the attacks by Al Qaeda, the disaster in the Gulf was preceded by ample warnings – yet the administration had ignored them (read this, please)
Thad Allen Letter To Tony Hayward: BP Is Not Being Transparent (took them 2 months to figure that out)
AFP: US sets deadline for BP as mistrust grows (conciliate this)
Pelosi Demands Oil Spill Legislation By July 4 (Republicans laugh)
Underwater Plumes: Doug Suttles DENIES Existence Of Large Concentrations Of Oil Beneath The Surface, Contradicting Scientists (who you gonna believe? BP or your lyin' eyes?)
Gulf Oil Spill Dive: Reporter Takes A Dip Without Hazmat Suit
Louisiana Oil Spill 2010 PHOTOS: Gulf Of Mexico Leak Reaches Land (non-existent oil covers pristine beaches)
Poll: Many fault federal regulators for Gulf of Mexico oil disaster Just a quarter of Americans back expanding offshore drilling in the wake of the BP oil spill, and most fault federal regulators for the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico ... Support for drilling in general has slipped from 64 percent last August to 52 percent now. (and what were the numbers for the Drill, Baby, Drill states? +predictable Salazar FAIL)
Gulf Oil Spill Dive: Reporter Takes A Dip Without Hazmat Suit
Palin Chides Obama Over Gulf Oil Spill: 'Give Me A Call' ("we have decades of experience ruining the environment")
Howard Kurtz, please define “wrong” | Media Matters for America Got that? Barack Obama was wrong to say he was in the gulf before pundits started paying attention, because the day after he was there, network newscasts and cable shows covered the spill. Heck of a job, Howie.
‘Peak Oil’ Movement Prepares for the Worst - NYTimes.com (yur elite press peeks out from under the covers)
Surface area required to power the whole world by solar power on Photos (keep drillin')

Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey of Americans · Econ Journal Watch: Economic enlightenment, college education, economic education, schooling
Daniel Klein: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? - WSJ.com Self-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics.
Study Proves Libertarian Economists Ignorant | The New Republic (another rigged poll: liberals are stupid, according to conservative libertarians)
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Are You Smarter Than a George Mason University Economics Professor? (Nate Silver: "The only thing this study demonstrates is the ideological hackery of its authors.")

Editorial - Doctors Who Aid Torture - NYTimes.com
A growing part of the Obama legacy - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - NYT: many unresolved issues from the Bush administration that President Obama and Congressional leaders have swept under the carpet.

Open Left:: Senate expands on House version of economic relief bill It's hard to believe, but the House is now emerging as more of a problem to progressive governance than the Senate
'Flabbergasted' Murkowski Hits Back At White House (Murkowski wants to block EPA from regulating carbon)
Graham says he won’t vote for the climate bill he wrote | Grist (the designated Republican Lucy of the week)
Blanche Lincoln Win Sparks Furious Sniping Between White House, Labor "Organized labor just flushed $10 million of their members' money down the toilet on a pointless exercise," the unnamed official said to Politico's Ben Smith. (go AR!)
CA GOP Chooses Carly Fiorina To Challenge Barbara Boxer | TPMDC
Fiorina Open Mic Gaffe On Boxer's Hairstyle: 'So Yesterday!' (immediate cat-fight) | TPMDC
Mario Piperni dot Com » Blog Archive » Orly Taitz – GOP’s Nightmare Orly Taitz is an Israeli émigré
Our hard-core, adversarial press corps - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (infantile elite reporters)
Are Liberal Supreme Court Judges 'Judicial Activists'? - time (see, there's this thing called "projection" which Republicans are really good at)
Last Night's Tea Party Winners And Losers | TPMDC
Fred Barnes’ very bad advice | Media Matters for America (WaPo editorial page some kind of delusional Bermuda Triangle of thought +"the last time we had a Republican Congress and a Democrat in the White House, the GOP handed out subpoenas like they were lollipops, even going so far as to investigate the White House cat."
The magical thinking of Fred Barnes - Brendan Nyhan Barnes may wish that presidents were re-elected based on spending restraint, but that's just not the world we live in. Obama's fortunes will rise or fall depending on the state of the economy.

Unemployment Benefits Lapse Causes Panic And Confusion For The Jobless (keep voting Republican, people)
Bernanke Warns Congress Not To Cut Spending, Cautions About 'Fragile' Recovery (Republicans only try to cut Democratic spending)
Calculated Risk: MBA: Mortgage Purchase Applications decline 35% over last four weeks (Obama's foolish attempt to re-inflate the housing bubble has failed; now what? +Larry Summers is an idiot)
Martin Wolf on the Dangers of Austerity « naked capitalism Premature fiscal tightening is, warns experience, as big a danger as delayed tightening would be.
The Perils of Studying Economics « The Baseline Scenario
Estate Tax Dormant, Billionaire’s Bequest Is Tax-Free - NYTimes.com (go Republicans!)

Only In It For The Gold: A New Low
Only In It For The Gold: NSF: Letter "Fraudulent" (balloon-girl?)
NY Times, WSJ, and Washington Post all rejected op-ed/letter from 255 National Academy of Sciences members defending climate science integrity « Climate Progress
The science and magic of cheesemaking | Andy Connelly | Science | guardian.co.uk
Report: White Population Dwindles as California Grows - AOL News - whites accounted for just under 41 percent of California's overall population in 2008, down from 47 percent in 2000

Tips For Coping With Bad-News Burnout : NPR
"Empathic Discernment " by Dr. Charles Figley

The Silver Dream Machine: The synthesizer that accidentally changed the world.
Google Acknowledges To Ct AG It Has Been Collecting Data From Unsecured WiFi | Connecticut Watchdog
Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed (all the cool people get their emails advertised)
Mass hack plants malware on thousands of webpages • The Register When good sites pwn ... affected sites running a banner-ads module on top of Microsoft's Internet Information Services using ASP.net (like wsj.com)

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More NATO Troops Killed in Afghanistan | Asia | English
US Soldiers Implicated In Killing Of 3 Afghan Civilians, Army Says
Labour contender under fire over 'kill Thatcher' joke - Yahoo! News (it wouldn't work anyway)
BBC News - North Korean border guard 'shoots three Chinese dead' (sending a signal)
Mass Grave Found In Mexico: 55 Bodies Found In Old Silver Mine (your Republican drug war at work)

Gaza Blockade: Israel Launches Investigation Of Deadly Flotilla Raid (into why they didn't just sink it)
Facebook Fans Offer Support To White House Reporter Fired Over ‘Offensive’ Comments | news junkie post
Reuters under fire for removing weapons, blood from images of Gaza flotilla - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

NOAA: Under water oil plumes confirmed (the ones tht BP said didn't exist a fucking week ago - and NOAA agreed)
Op-Ed Columnist - Don’t Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even. - NYTimes.com IT turns out there is something harder to find than a fix for BP’s leak: Barack Obama’s boiling point.
BP's Long History Of Destroying The World
Ezra Klein - It's useful to have geniuses around The suggestion at first elicited snickering and "Incredible Hulk" jokes. Then they tried it, and it worked.
Pa. Halts Drilling by Company After Gas Accident - NYTimes.com (remember Ed "Drill, Baby, Drill" Rendell?)
Could the spill restore Jindal as a GOP whiz kid? | NOLA.com (yes, idiocy is always respected)
ICE Running Immigration Raids on Oil-Spill Workers | Mother Jones (good they have their priorities straight)
The ties that bind. Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP adviser | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times Now, we learn the details of a connection of Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayoral wannabe, current Obama chief of staff, ex-representative, ex-Clinton money man and ex-Windy City political machine go-fer (total sleeze in every direction)

TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect POTUS Descends Into B-Movie Parody - we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick." (try Rahm's)
Supreme Court Blocks Ariz. Campaign Finance System : NPR (pubic financing will be illegal, corps unleased with no oppositon)
Disapproval dominates Public dissatisfaction with the performance of Congress is greater now than it was at this point in 2006 and 1994, the last two times control of the House changed hands.
E-mails show effort to keep Palin's fee secret - SFGate
Glenn Beck promotes book rife with anti-Semitism and racism | Media Matters for America

Open Left:: White House orders 5% spending cuts on top of discretionary spending freeze (just what we need)
Counting on Medicaid Money, States Face Shortfalls - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist - ‘A Very Deep Hole’ on Jobs - NYTimes.com For all the money that has been spent so far, the Obama administration and Congress have not made the kinds of investments that would put large numbers of Americans back to work and lead to robust economic growth (too late, it all went to the banks and the military, screw you +50 mini-Hoovers)
Matthew Yglesias » The No-Stimulus Economy there hasn’t been any net fiscal stimulus, all the Obama administration’s efforts plus the automatic stabilizers have done is mitigate the contractionary impact of state and local policy (congress encouraging 50 little Hoovers)
More On Why Banks Aren't Foreclosing On Homeowners | Capital Gains and Games Foreclosing would require that the mortgage owners re-estimate downward the value of the second liens to what Morgenson calls "fantasy levels." That, in turn, would require them to admit that the loans had gone bad and, therefore, require that they repurchase the loans from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Banks Paying Colleges For Students Who Rack Up Credit Card Debt
Talking Ourselves Off The Edge Of The Cliff | Pragmatic Capitalism (but the deficit!)
Economist's View: "Private Sector 'Make Work' Jobs?"
Robert Skidelsky - Why markets need governments
We Need Bigger Deficits Now! - Grasping Reality with Both Hands
Economist's View: Things are Different at the Zero Bound
Economist's View: "A Missing Macroeconomic Playbook?"

Brain scans 'could be used to snoop on thoughts' - Telegraph The use of brain scanners must be regulated in order to prevent them being used to invade privacy and threaten civil liberties, a legal expert has warned.
Global Pain-Law Reform: Morphine Still Scarce for Many - TIME

Suzanne Collins’s “The Hunger Games,” review : The New Yorker

Joran Van Der Sloot Confession: Natalee Holloway Murder Suspect Confesses To Killing Stephany Flores In Peru "I did not want to do it. The girl intruded into my private life... she didn't have any right.
Girlfriend killed by lightning minutes before Knox man's proposal
One-Size-Fits-All Government « John Stossel "The sentence here shocks the conscience… The minimum penalty for first degree murder is 50 years. She could get 25 years for 2nd deg murder... She is getting a greater penalty for letting a boy touch her breast than for murder.”

Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com
An Android User’s Take On Yesterday’s iPhone News
Google Maps previews in Gmail and Google Buzz - Official Gmail Blog
Ballmer bites back: Microsoft-Apple battle brews anew - Computerworld
The End of :hover? | writing | Andy Croll | Web Designer & Developer | Singapore | UK

060710
David Cameron: cuts 'will change British life' | Politics | The Guardian Canadian-style star chamber to enforce savage spending decisions
Indian court finds chemical execs guilty in Bhopal disaster - CNN.com and the company they worked for are guilty for their role in the 1984 industrial disaster that killed thousands in Bhopal, India.
BBC News - Cairo court rules on Egyptians married to Israeli women

Clinton: Iran Will 'Pull Some Stunt'
Gaza blockade: Iran offers escort to next aid convoy | World news | The Guardian
Israel Navy Kills Four Palestinian Militants Off Gaza Coast
Israel forced to apologise for YouTube spoof of Gaza flotilla | World news | The Guardian The clip features a group led by the Jerusalem Post's deputy managing editor Caroline Glick (there you go)
Helen Thomas RETIRING Effective Immediately (no criticism of Israel allowed; the last truth-asker standing falls, Pres No Press Conferences agrees)
Right Now - ADL's Abe Foxman hails retirement of 'bigoted' Helen Thomas

Readers’ Photos: The Gulf Oil Spill - Slide Show - NYTimes.com (including Haley Barbour's "pristine" beaches)
"The rig's on fire! I told you this was gonna happen!" | Mother Jones
Gulf Oil Spill: How Much Oil Is The Containment Dome Catching? (less than half and that's if they're not lying, as usual)
Oil spill seafood testers sniff out tainted fish, shrimp, oysters at Pascagoula lab (with video) | gulflive.com (trained noses, the best your government can do)

Rep. John Conyers: Ending the Longest War the War in Afghanistan passing the Vietnam War to officially become the longest military conflict in American history (forever war)
Robert Greenwald: It's Always a Bad Year to Get Out of Afghanistan
Rep. Alan Grayson: The Longest War , the war in Afghanistan becomes America's longest war. Longer than the war in Vietnam. Longer than the Korean War.
Rep. Mike Honda: America's Longest War Leaves Little Legacy in Afghanistan (nothing accomplished)
At least $500 million has been spent since 9/11 on renovating Guantanamo Bay an abandoned volleyball court for $249,000, an unused go-kart track for $296,000 and $3.5 million for 27 playgrounds that are often vacant (military spending will never be but)
U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe | Threat Level | Wired.com

The Torture Reports
Did the Bush Administration Experiment on Detainees? | Mother Jones Not only were terrorism suspects tortured, they were also used as human guinea pigs, a new report alleges (ex-Pres Mengele +"never look back")
Doctors helped CIA perfect 'torture' technique | The Daily Telegraph MEDICAL professionals helped the CIA perfect legal but harsh interrogation methods for terror suspects during the George W. Bush administration, according to a new report.
Experiments in Torture: Physicians group alleges US conducted illegal research on detainees - Boing Boing

Obama, the Oil Spill, and the Carter Comparisons - Newsweek.com The president, consumed with cleaning up after his predecessors, can't just strip emotion from the public parts of his job (Mr Cool Non-Partisan)
Open Left:: Blue Dogs self-asphyxiate In case you missed it, after passing Afghanistan war funding without battling an eyelash, last week Blue Dogs slashed an economic relief bill by nearly $100 billion. It was a glorious "victory" for them:

Matthew Yglesias » The No-Stimulus Economy
More On Why Banks Aren't Foreclosing On Homeowners | Capital Gains and Games
Goldman Sachs Subpoenaed By Financial Crisis Panel For Withholding Key Info
Simon Johnson: Richard Fisher, Senior Fed Official: White House Is Dead Wrong (we knew that a year ago +Larry Summers is an idiot)
Bernie Madoff: "F--k My Victims" . "I carried them for twenty years, and now I'm doing 150 years."

Spirialing 'UFO' Over Australia Was Likely Falcon 9 Rocket | Universe Today ("likely")
Review - Children with Sexual Behavior Problems - Childhood Disorders
Review - The Porn Trap - Sexuality The Essential Guide to Overcoming Problems Caused by Pornography

US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Psychological Adjustment of 17-Year-Old Adolescents -- Gartrell and Bos, 10.1542/peds.2009-3153 -- Pediatrics
The Secret to Having the Perfect Child: Be a Lesbian
Kids with Lesbian Parents May Do Better Than Their Peers - time
Kids of lesbians have fewer behavioral problems, study suggests - CNN.com
National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, lesbian mothers, lesbian families, lesbian family study
Kids With Lesbian Parents Do Just Fine - US News and World Report Study shows they might even be better adjusted than kids from traditional families (go traditional values!)
same-sex parenting: Beliefs of conserative Christians | same-sex parenting: conclusions

Ohio Tornado Storm Kills Seven, Wrecks Cop Cars, Graduation
Sheriff: Dad 'Tazes' daughter's friend | Local News | PE.com | Southern California News | News for Inland Southern California (William Atwood Sr, famous on the internets for all eternity +tazes his dogs "daily")
Ohio Supreme Court Rules Officers Can Just Guess How Fast You’re Going | autoinsane

Mom Finds Missing Kids After 15 Years Using Facebook
John Sculley on Why He Fired Steve Jobs
Why didn't video phones take off? (DFW)

060610
New Jersey Terrorism Arrests: 2 NJ Men Arrested At JFK Airport On Terrorism Charges

LRB · Jacqueline Rose · ‘J’accuse’: Dreyfus in Our Times - "because of Dreyfus, so Israel" "That the story of Dreyfus, the fight for justice, leads rather to universal human rights and the need to abide by international law" (learn from history +Zola, Colonel Picquart, Bernard Lazare and Proust in the audience)
Michael Chabon - Chosen, but Not Special - NYTimes.com “GAZA Flotilla Drives Israel Into a Sea of Stupidity” declared the Israeli daily Haaretz on Monday, as though announcing the discovery of some hitherto unknown body of water (racism is taught to Jews)
LRB · Judith Butler · No, it’s not anti-semitic (2003 +Larry Summers is an idiot)

Israeli Ambassador To U.S., Michael Oren, Rejects International Investigation Of Flotilla Deaths (of course)
Flotilla raid diary: 'A man is shot. I am seeing it happen' | From the Guardian | The Guardian
Maan News Agency: Israel under fire for doctoring flotilla recordings (there is nothing they won't do)
Students plan counter-flotilla - Israel News, Ynetnews - "we need three elements: Money, logistics and balls," he said. "We're bringing the balls and some of the logistics, but we need lots of money." (and a little thinking about that missing blockade +cheaper to just use paypal)

Thad Allen: Oil Spill Is 'Holding The Gulf Hostage'
Op-Ed Columnist - Don’t Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even. - NYTimes.com f Obama is to have a truly transformative presidency, there could be no better catalyst than oil (transformation has been proven to be not his thing +Larry Summers is an idiot)
Haley Barbour: Oil? What Oil? Press Should Stop Scaring Tourists (psycho-Republican +conserving is communist))
Oil touches down on Florida beaches - usatoday.com (Floriduh screwed, Miss. OK, drill, baby, drill)
BP Ignores Order to Pay for Barrier Islands, Drops $50 Million on Oil Spill Ad | ecopolitology
Jimmy Carter's solar panels help power a Maine college, then star in film - The Green Blog ... But in 1986, President Ronald Reagan took the solar panels down when the White House roof was being repaired. They were never reinstalled (Republicans destroyed this country in so many ways)
Daily Kos: Nuclear Follies: How Not To Stem the BP Oil Gusher
worst_case_scenario.png (XKCD nails it)

Speech Highlights: Obama Hits Republicans, Pledges to Find Votes for Energy - Politics - The Atlantic (nukes + natural gas not "clean energy")
Daily Kos: To fully embrace a clean energy future
Daily Kos: Book review: New thinking about voter polarization - Jonathan D. Weiler: Most succinctly, we mean by authoritarianism a tendency to see the world in simple, clear, black and white terms in support of a social order that prefers sameness and uniformity over diversity and difference (+wars and intolerance: strong, angry, not-so-smart, drunken daddy)

Lost Decade, Here We Come - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com Yet the conventional wisdom now is that these countries must nonetheless cut — not because the markets are currently demanding it, not because it will make any noticeable difference to their long-run fiscal prospects, but because we think that the markets might demand it (even though they shouldn’t) sometime in the future. Utter folly posing as wisdom. Incredible (K-Thug at his best)
Fair Game - Banks Say No to Freddie and Fannie, but Taxpayers Can’t - NYTimes.com - And when disguising problems winds up harming the taxpayer — the same folks who rode to the rescue of banks with billions of dollars — the denial is downright exasperating (good job, Barry)

Neanderthals walked into frozen Britain 40,000 years earlier than first thought, evidence shows - The Channel is also a critical area for further research, with the buried landscape between Boulogne and Newhaven -- provisionally christened "Boulognia" -- possibly containing the crucial evidence.
Largest supercomputers to simulate life on Earth, including economies and whole societies
Bill Maher: New Rule: Al Gore Must Come Out With a Sequel to His Film and Call It An Inconvenient Truth 2: What the F*ck Is Wrong With You People? Or take this recent headline: "TV weathercasters divided on global warming." Who gives a shit? My TV weathercaster is a bimbo with big tits who used to be on a soap opera on Telemundo.

Fifty Political Manifestos and Platforms of Our Time
Modern and Contemporary Political Ideologies
Americans have lost their commitment to shared sacrifice. The Gettysburg Address can help them recover it. - By Eliot Spitzer - Slate Magazine
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: The Prisoner's Dilemma

"74 Democrats sold you out to AT&T, Verizon and Comcast" | The Agonist 74 Democrats signed a joint letter to the FCC supporting internet throttling by Verizon, ATT and Comcast. Throttling lets carriers slow or block internet traffic. This is a clear attack on net neutrality
Opt-Out Required to Prevent Your Yahoo! Mail Contacts From Being Used for Social Network | Electronic Frontier Foundation
New iPhone Data Plans: Is 200MB Enough? - Gearlog , we found that 200MB just isn't enough for a tech-savvy iPhoner, but 2GB definitely is (unless you tether, then you're screwed +this is for the 4G highbandwidth future, suckas)
Sexy Videogameland: You Look Nice, Miss
The Proposition: So, Hey Baby Then… | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
hOZXT.png (the timid, shy, misunderstood guy)

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Israel ready to intercept another ship, won't apologize to Turkey | McClatchy (rule #1: never apologize)
Rule of the Gun - With U.S. Aid, Warlord Builds an Afghan Empire - NYTimes.com (of course, this will work out really well)

Obama Briefed in April by Carol Browner On How Bad BP Spill Was - The Daily Beast The president was not only briefed on the real-time events of the spill, but also on just how bad it would be—and how hard it would be to plug the hole (and couldn't bring himself to tell you, preferring to let BP/Republicans control the message, as usual)
What if BP Never Stopped the Oil in the Gulf of Mexico? - ABC News Engineers Say Deepwater Horizon Well Could Leak for Years if Not Stopped (enjoy your oil, drill, baby, drill states)
Gulf Oil Spill: Cap Placed Over Leak Collecting Only Fraction Of The Oil ("fraction" = hardly any)
A Disaster Reaches Beyond the Gulf Coast - NYTimes.com - “Is it going to be what Three Mile Island was to nuclear?”
What the Spill Will Kill - Newsweek.com Giant plumes of crude oil mixed with methane are sweeping the ocean depths with devastating consequences (you know, those giant plumes that BP and Obama's NOAA says don't exist)
Pelicans, Back from Brink of Extinction, Face Threat From Oil Spill - NYTimes.com (good job, oil-states)
BP Amoco: Accidents Not Waiting to Happen | Chemically Green
BP says oil flowing from ruptured well to ship on Gulf surface - CNN.com The plumes are as wide as 6 miles, though their lengths are unclear, researchers said. In the past, BP has denied that such large amounts of oil, which can choke fish and harm their eggs, have formed into underwater plumes.
BP Buys Search Engine Phrases Redirecting Users - ABC News
Firedoglake Apparently the cleanup site of the oil hemorrhaging into the gulf is the perfect place for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials to pick up undocumented workers (but of course)
Op-Ed Columnist - Disaster in the Amazon - NYTimes.com indigenous people from a formerly pristine region of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador have been trying to get relief from an American company, Texaco (which later merged with Chevron), for what has been described as the largest oil-related environmental catastrophe ever.

EU to propose lifting Israeli blockade of Gaza: Spain - Hindustan Times
How to Defend the Indefensible (and get away with it) | Stephen M. Walt
Thousands demonstrate across the world against Israel's Gaza flotilla raid - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Week-long ban is initiated by Swedish Port Workers Union, who says act is reaction to the 'unprecedented criminal attack on the peaceful ship convoy.'
Israeli navy reportedly intercepts Gaza-bound aid ship
Rachel Corrie, Aid Ship, Seized By Israel With No Resistance - intercepted in international waters
Ari Fleischer: Fire Helen Thomas video surfaced on Friday of her declaring that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to Germany and Poland (AIPAC has a fit, but really)
HuffPost cuts ties with BP consultant Rosen - Ben Smith - politico.com
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation : Index

Text of Justice David Souter’s speech | Harvard Gazette Online
Editorial - Justice Souter’s Counsel - NYTimes.com
Souter at Harvard, on the Supreme Court - latimes.com
E.J. Dionne: Souter takes a big swing at Scalia's ‘originalism' | Viewpoints, Outlook | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Justice Souter’s Class - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

Arizona Elementary School Will Whiten The Faces Of Its Own Students On A Mural Because Some Racists Yelled At It
Steve Blair Fired By KYCA - Prescott eNews removed from his radio talk show as of today, due to a controversy over the mural painted on Miller Valley School (Steve Blair: dumb racist fuck)
Corporations Are NOT People! » Politics Plus

Hullabaloo: Global Neo-Hooverism
The Washington Monthly: The Economy Or The Deficit - Every Republican in Congress, still of the Hoover school of economics, wants to take their foot off the gas and slam on the brake (except when it comes to wars they started)
Hullabaloo Brad Delong asked if we are seeing the creation of an underclass of long term unemployed. Here is some more evidence that we are (if you're unemployed, you can't get a job; 19% jobless: please the bond-holders above all else)
stimulus-vs-unemployment-may-corrected.gif (Obama's economic team - and you know who that is - was )

Crizotinib, Lung Cancer Drug, Shows Big Promise In Early Tests
NASA - What is Consuming Hydrogen and Acetylene on Titan? What is Consuming Hydrogen and Acetylene on Titan?
Omega-3 lesson: Not so much brain boost as fishy research | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk One tiny brain-imaging study of fatty acids has been used to endorse fish oil as education's magic pill
Mark Hyman, MD: Nutrition Tips: Folic Acid: Killer or Cure-All?
Stone Age Color, Glue 'Factory' Found : Discovery News The color and glue trade could have been a blossoming industry some 58,000 years ago.
Infant Mortality Study Shows How Our Health Care System Fails Women And Children | ATTACKERMAN

U.S. Consumers Lag Others in Sustainable Choices - NatGeo News Watch
Greendex: Survey of Sustainable Consumption - National Geographic
U.S. Consumers Lag Others in Sustainable Choices - NatGeo News Watch

Op-Ed Columnist - Gay? Whatever, Dude - NYTimes.com For the first time, the percentage of Americans who perceive “gay and lesbian relations” as morally acceptable has crossed the 50 percent mark
Americans' Acceptance of Gay Relations Crosses 50% Threshold
sweet juniper! - Another Selection from our Collection of Terrifying Nixon-era Children's Books: The Way It Is (1969)
Diana Butler Bass: The Real Reason for the Anglican-Episcopal Divide
PCH: Pacific Coast Hellway (Porsche owner angry that there are other cars on the highway and he can't use it for his personal race-track)
Ken Fells revisits the Shawinigan handshake - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca

YouTube - NPR: All Things D
Does the Internet Make You Smarter? - WSJ.com Amid the silly videos and spam are the roots of a new reading and writing culture, says Clay Shirky.
Henry Blodget: Google to Change Gmail, Add "Normal Email" Option Instead Of Just "Conversations"
Don Norman at IIT Design Research Conference 2010 on Vimeo (Steve Jobs head is as big as the galaxy)
What to do if locked out of Gmail, and what to do now if you aren't
Gmail and Google Apps Account Hacked But Restored Soon After

060410
Expert says Burma ‘planning nuclear bomb’ | Democratic Voice of Burma
BBC News - N Korea hails development of new 'super drink' that, it says, can multiply brain cells and stop skin ageing
AFP: Deadly fighting erupts in Sudan's Darfur: rebels
YouTube - for Neda (English)

Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range | World news | The Guardian (executions)
The Gaza Flotilla Raid: What Happened On The Ship? (video) | TPMMuckraker
Israel Signals New Flexibility on Gaza Shipments - NYTimes.com (won't sink ships in home ports)
Gaza Blockade: Israel Vows To Block Rachel Corrie, New Aid Ship (death to the Irish!)
News Desk: Debriefing: Lawrence Wright on Gaza : The New Yorker
Interesting Times: Israel Takes the Bait : The New Yorker by George Packer
The US Is Defending Not Just Its Closest Ally in Israeli Raid, but Also Approach to War | Emptywheel
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: 21 Miles Off The Coast of Palestine
Autopsies reveal 9 men on Gaza aid boat shot, 5 in head - CNN.com Video: Heroes' welcomed home in Turkey - In one case, Ince said, a gunshot victim had been shot at at extremely close range (executions)
Stewart Slams Glenn Beck For Lying About Flotilla Raid Footage (video)
Op-Ed Contributor - Prosecuting Crimes Against the Earth - NYTimes.com

Relief Wells Proceed During Efforts on Sea Bed - NYTimes.com
Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com (this is the result of six weeks; imagine another six months)
Making money on an oil disaster « Climate Progress Will BP take responsibility, or squeeze the tragedy for profits the way Exxon did?
Tar Balls Wash Ashore On Florida Beaches, Scientists Warn Oil May Spread Up Atlantic Coast (video) (enjoy your tarballs, Nantucket)
My BP Mole Spills the Secrets of BP's Cleanup Ops | Mother Jones Elmer says that last Thursday, when the Coast Guard was announcing that the top kill seemed to be working, the cleanup supervisors on Grand Isle had already been informed it was a failure—which, of course, was not publicly announced until several days later (BP still owns the cops)
Defense Secretary Robert Gates Declares Gulf Oil Spill Beyond Military's Expertise (Army of none, only good for killing people)
BP Hit With £47m Bill For Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Gulf Of Mexico Crisis Costs The Company | World News | Sky News (same as downloading 600 illegal songs)
Another Torrent BP Works to Stem - Its C.E.O. - NYTimes.com (worse than Biden)
How Long Can Mississippi's Governor Keep Downplaying The Oil Spill? | TPM LiveWire Haley Barbour (R) has been a man apart in his low-key response to the catastrophic oil leak still gushing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Gas Spews for Hours From Out-Of-Control Pa. Well - NYTimes.com

Wash. Post op-ed flat-out lies about law to suggest White House conversations were illegal | Media Matters for America (Fred Hiatt at work)
White House Talk Lightens Tone of Dispute on Immigration Law - NYTimes.com (the great conciliator at work)
Wonkette : Arizona School Demands Black & Latino Students’ Faces On Mural Be Changed To White (mural featuring the faces of kids who attend the school has been the subject of constant daytime drive-by racist screaming, from adults, as well as a radio talk-show campaign (by an actual city councilman, who has an AM talk-radio show) to remove the black student’s face, and now the school principal has ordered the faces of the Latino and Black students to be changed to Caucasian skin
Jake Knotts' 'Raghead' Remark: Nikki Haley, Obama Called Indian Slur By South Carolina State Senator the remarks about President Barack Obama and state Rep. Nikki Haley were meant as a joke - Republican state Sen. Jake Knotts (joke this, you fucking racist)
U.S. Likely To Miss Deadline On Prison Rape Rules : NPR (not a high priorty)

‘The Time We Have Is Growing Short’ | The New York Review of Books by Paul Volcker
Employment Situation Summary Total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 431,000 in May, reflecting the hiring of 411,000 temporary employees to work on Census 2010 (stimulus!)
CRimages: Percent Job Losses During Recessions, aligned at bottom, May 2010 (who need jobs as long as the bankers are happy?)
The Washington Monthly: Minority Leader John Boehner says you don't need a job
Unemployment: U.S. Economy Added 431k Jobs In May, But Vast Majority Came From Census Hires hiring by private employers, the backbone of the economy, slowed sharply. They added just 41,000 jobs
Deficit Eclipses Jobs In Congress: 'Nickel-And-Diming The Most Fragile People' (Senate walks away from jobless)
US Stock Futures Extend Losses After Jobs Report - CNBC
Robert Reich: Why We're Falling Into a Double-Dip Recession
Summers Predicts Job Growth by Spring - NYTimes.com (December, 2009: another Summers failure)
Six Giant Banks Made $51 Billion Last Year; The Other 980 Lost Money - Forbes.com (too big too fail is very, very, profitable)
Daily Kos: WSR: Senators making the case for credit ratings reform and Volker Rule (Larry Summer's still sabotaging everything)

UC Berkeley offer to test DNA of incoming students sparks debate - Los Angeles Times
News: Unwinding Berkeley's DNA Test - Inside Higher Ed
Berkeley Asks Freshmen for DNA Samples - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Aliens vs Human Intelligence DNA Evolution Science Alien Contact with Lifeforms Galaxy Universe SETI
'Helicopter' Parents Have Neurotic Kids, Study Suggests - Yahoo! News (shocking news)
Book owners have smarter kids - Laura Miller - Salon.com
Another Jupiter impact? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Tale of two versions of 'Life' on Blu-ray | Crave - CNET two versions of the Blu-ray edition out there--one narrated by British naturalist David Attenborough, the other by Oprah Winfrey (the American editon for really dumb people)
Guided by Parasites: Toxoplasma Modified Humans
arXiv vs. snarXiv

Less Wrong: Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
Operation Mincemeat and spycraft in World War Two : The New Yorker It was a dazzling feat of wartime espionage. But does it argue for or against spying? by Malcolm Gladwell
Boston 1775: William York: ten-year-old murderer
Sculptris - Sculptris wants you to make 3D models. Download it and have a go! (free)

Publishing Locations Of Pirate Movies Is The Same As Hosting Them | TorrentFreak a court reasoned that by allowing the publication of the location of pirate movie stored on Usenet, FTD was effectively publishing the movie
How Android, Chrome, and the iPad are shielding us from malware. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine (especially the jPad) w
A Facebook privacy scanner that can adjust settings for you | VentureBeat

060310
Derrick Bird, UK Taxi Driver, Kills 12, Wounds 25 In Shooting Spree (see, open carry would have stopped this)

Gaza flotilla raid: 'We heard gunfire – then our ship turned into lake of blood' | World news | The Guardian Activists aboard Mavi Marmara speak of shock at rapid attacks and deny assaults on Israeli commandos
In raw video, reporters claim Israelis fired on activists before boarding ship | Raw Story
Turkey-Israel ties head for major shift | Reuters
New Israeli Tack Needed on Gaza, U.S. Officials Say - NYTimes.com
Robert Mackey: A Former Military Planner's View: Why Israel Lost
Reporting Israeli Assault Through Israel's Eyes Attack on humanitarian flotilla prompts little media skepticism
Israel Flotilla Disaster: Gaza Embargo, U.S. Supporters to Blame - The Daily Beast
Gaza aid flotilla: Israeli sabotage suspected | World news | The Guardian
I Already Shot You § Unqualified Offerings
What Could They Have Been Thinking?: Initial Thoughts on the Gaza Flotilla | Stephen M. Walt
Amos Oz - Israeli Force, Adrift on the Sea - NYTimes.com
Israel and the world: Israel's siege mentality | The Economist The government’s macho attitude is actually making Israel weaker ... Israel is caught in a vicious circle. The more its hawks think the outside world will always hate it, the more it tends to shoot opponents first and ask questions later, and the more it finds that the world is indeed full of enemies.
BBC News - Activists describe Israeli raid on Gaza aid convoy as well as firing live and plastic rounds, commandos had administered electric shocks and beaten passengers during the assault. Israeli soldiers have said the troops acted in self-defence
American Killed on Gaza Aid Flotilla - ABC News Furkan Dogan Was Shot Five Times, Including Four Times in Head (he was "resisting")
AFP: UN chief urges Israel to lift Gaza blockade (Netanyahu: "fuck you")
Israel REJECTS International Investigation Of Deadly Flotilla Raid (what a surprise)
Gaza Flotilla Raid May Not Change U.S. Policy Towards Israel (nothing Israel could do would "change US policy")
Reports: Young U.S. Citizen Killed By IDF In Gaza Flotilla Raid | TPMMuckraker
The Israeli flotilla attack: victimhood, aggression and tribalism - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Dogan, who held a U.S. passport, had four bullet wounds to the head and one to the chest (self-defense, you anti-semitic or something? +rogue state at work)
Israel's use of 'captured' video draws criticism - Yahoo! News drawing sharp criticism Thursday from foreign correspondents who say some of the footage was shot by journalists
Right-wing media rush to blame Obama for Gaza flotilla incident | Media Matters for America
LiveLeak.com - Israelis celebrating attack on Turkish Aid Ship - infront of Turkish Embassy,Tel Aviv
YouTube - Close-Up Footage of Mavi Marmara Passengers Attacking IDF Soldiers
DEBKAfile: Why was Israeli raider force unprepared for violent resistance?

Gulf Oil Spill (photos): Animals In Peril
Coast Guard Admiral Says Gulf Oil Pipe Is Cut - NYTimes.com
Gulf Oil Spill: Latest Federal Government Estimate Still Understates Oil Flow (more stupidty)
Oil Companies Weigh Strategies to Fend Off Tougher Regulations - NYTimes.com (oh sure)
BP Oil: Coming to a Beach Near You in Summer 2010 | Mother Jones the spill "might soon extend along thousands of miles of the Atlantic coast and open ocean as early as this summer." (hey, Nantucket, you listening?)
Gulf Oil Spill: Relief Wells Are Risky, Could Actually Make Spill Worse (oh, now you tell us)
New Oil Well Approved 50 Miles Off Louisiana Coast, South Of Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge
Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill? No Way, U.S. Says - NYTimes.com (turn the Gulf into a stinking mass of radioactive oil, great idea)
BP 'Cut-And-Cap' Plug Attempt Suffers Setback: Saw Is Stuck, Shears Next (next up: tweazers)
The Washington Monthly: Penn's Vision Of 'Immediate Action' Jon Chait to conclude, "I've said it before and I'll say it again: this man is a total fraud. He has absolutely no idea what he was talking about." (insane stupid Republicans at work)
Oil Spill Tar Patties Wash Ashore In Alabama, As Angry Governor Blasts Coast Guard Decisions sticky "tar patties," as big as a flattened palm.
The Downward Spiral: Oil Giants Involved In Spill Are Worth Way Less Than They Once Were | TPM LiveWire
Bob Cesca: How Soon Until the Free Market Stops the Oil Spill?
Sarah Palin Blames Environmentalists For Gulf Oil Disaster
Gulf Coast oil spill could wreck region's tourism and fishing industries (elite press slowly waking up)
Daily Kos: Rep. Taylor: Volcano of oil looks like...chocolate milk! (a month ago ... will he apologize and punch himself in the dick?)
BP’s Hayward Faces Downgrades, Investors as Spill May Cost Job - Bloomberg.com BP’s Hayward Faces Downgrades, Investors as Spill May Cost Job
BP CEO Tony Hayward Admits Company Was Unprepared For Deepwater Oil Leak (send him up the oil-stained river)
Gulf Oil Spill Criminal Case Difficult Against Execs
Bobby Jindal Asks Obama To End Moratorium On Deepwater Drilling (Lousiana Repubicans: drill, baby, drill insanity at work +Jindal is a real idiot)
Dying, dead marine wildlife paint dark, morbid picture of Gulf Coast following oil spill - Here's what President Obama didn't see when he visited the Gulf Coast: a dead dolphin rotting in the shore weeds
BP Media Clampdown: No Photos Of Dead Animals, Please (BP owns everything)
Gulf Oil Spill: Feds Halt New Drilling In Gulf

U.N. Report Criticizes American Drone Attacks - NYTimes.com the growing use of armed drones by the United States to kill terrorism suspects was undermining global constraints on the use of military force. He warned that the American example would lead to a chaotic world as the new weapons technology inevitably spread.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Drone Wars Basically, the United States has decided that it has an absolute right to impose the death sentence on anyone they suspect of being a terrorist, and anyone who happens to be near the alleged suspect. Or anyone who is mistaken for someone we suspect to be a terrorist (or anyone near them)
George W. Bush Defends Waterboarding: Would Waterboard Khalid Sheik Mohammed Again
U.S.-Mexico Border Safety: Area Is One Of Safest Parts Of America (but there are all those brown people!)
Rolling The Dice: How Artur Davis Ended His Own Political Career | TPMDC

ETA Press Release: Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report The 4-week moving average was 459,000, an increase of 1,750 from the previous week's revised average of 457,250.
Hullabaloo Lucky Duckies On A Bad Trip (the new welfare queens: long-term unemployed +let's increase retirement age to 107)
Things Everyone In Chicago Knows - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com - Which happen not to be true (zombie lies about the housing crash)
Buffett’s PR disaster | Analysis & Opinion | He was dragged against his will — with a subpoena, no less — in front of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which grilled him on whether, as Moody’s largest shareholder, he took any responsibility at all for the disaster that happened there. His answer — no — was met with unanimous derision (Warren "Pants on Fire" Buffett, the Liar of Omaha)
Buffett denies that Moody's executives flagged bad bonds | McClatchy
Fed should raise rates to 1 percent: Hoenig | Reuters

3quarksdaily: The Nominees for the 2010 3QD Prize in Science Are:
Laminar Flow Reversibility: Why does the Blob Rewind? | Unruled Notebook
Magic quantum wand does not vanish hard math , a new paper has shown that adiabatic computers are actually quite bad at hard math problems.
New blood test speeds up cancer detection | Health Tech - CNET News
Rebel scientists force Royal Society to accept climate change scepticism - Times Online - Sir Alan, 72, an electrical engineer, is a member of the advisory council of the climate sceptic think-tank (all you need to know about "Sir Alan" and the British press)
Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked Jupiter eaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean
ConwayLife.com • View topic - Universal Constructor Based Spaceship

An Orangutan Bonds with a Hound Dog Video - Animals & Nature - Unlikely Friends - National Geographic Channel Videos
New York Expected to Give Protections to Nannies - NYTimes.com (domestic workers unprotected)
Raising Children Costs Between $286,000 and $476,000 - CBS MoneyWatch.com
Joran Van Der Sloot ARRESTED In Peru Murder Case five years to the day after Natalee Holloway disappeared.
Free heroin gives good results - Politiken.dk
Are Cameras the New Guns? . In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer (war on what really happened)

Michael Geist - The Canadian Copyright Bill: Flawed But Fixable
Microsoft: No Matter What Google Says, Windows Is Secure - PCWorld
10 Things Android Does Better Than iPhone OS | Maximum PC
Candid answers from AT&T on the new iPhone data plans
Dell Streak: $500 unlocked in US, available next month -- Engadget
What Settings Should I Change on My Wi-Fi Router?
AT&T warns customer that emailing the CEO will result in a cease and desist letter -- Engadget (you know what to do)

060210
Al Qaeda's Number 3: What his death means - The Week
Japan’s Premier Will Quit as Approval Plummets - NYTimes.com
Task Force Conclusion: “Many” Detainees Were Legally Detained | Emptywheel No word about the others who have been detained for up to 8 years for whom the Task Force found no legal basis to hold (so many of them were "illegally" detained for no reason for years and years)
Air hostess 'kidnapped and raped in Dubai desert' | Mail Online

Glenn Greenwald and Eliot Spitzer on the Gaza Flotilla | FDL Action - You don’t often get a piece of cable TV this good
Editorial - Israel and the Gaza Blockade - NYTimes.com At this point, it should be clear that the blockade is unjust and against Israel’s long-term security.
After Israel Raids Flotilla, U.S. Is Torn Between Allies - NYTimes.com (torn? this proves there is nothing Israel can do that won't get a US veto in the UN Security Council)
Mossad chief: Israel gradually becoming burden on U.S. - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Israel has turned from an asset to a burden; Senior IDF officer says the IDF didn't sabotage a Gaza aid ship in bid to avoid humanitarian crisis.
Gaza flotilla activists deported to Jordan claim Israeli mistreatment | World news | guardian.co.uk amid increasing calls for independent inquiry into deadly assault (keyword: "independent")
BBC News - UN statement on Israel's Gaza aid ships raid - "takes note of the statement of the UN Secretary-General on the need to have a full investigation" (do you see the word "independent?")
Gaza Blockade Defended By Netanyahu "Israel is facing an attack of international hypocrisy," Netanyahu said (in your face)
Israeli Arab MK who joined Gaza flotilla: IDF raid was a 'pirate' operation - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Likud tells Hanin Zoabi: 'Go to Gaza, you traitor
Israeli Knesset member rejects navy account of attack
Activists: We have funding for another larger Gaza flotilla - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News 'Freedom 2' expected to set sail in coming week (maybe this time you can install some direct-upload webcams?)
Israel Deports Activists Detained During Flotilla Raid
Barney Frank: 'As A Jew' I'm 'Ashamed' Over Treatment Of Palestinians (must be self-hating Jew)
u9Kul.jpg IsraelMFA's photostream: Weapons found aboard the Mavi Marmara (pathetic lies)
nBeMx.png (more "weapons" found on the boat full of terrorist insurgents)
Cyprus bans activists from joining flotilla | Reuters
Israel Turns to YouTube, Twitter After Flotilla Fiasco | Danger Room | Wired.com (cranks up the propaganda machine)
YouTube: Noam Chomsky pwns hostil Israeli reporter

Oil could hit Florida Panhandle by Wednesday - Oil balls bobbing toward Pensacola by the thousands (denial crumbling)
BP Gulf Oil Spill: The Cut, Clean-Up and Criminal Investigation - ABC News
Does Howard Kurtz read the Washington Post? | Media Matters for America Howard Kurtz’s complaints about Barack Obama’s handling of the BP oil spill are pure theater criticism
BP Oil Leak May Last Until Christmas in Worst Case Scenario - Bloomberg.com (funny how that "worst case scenario" keeps getting worse; how about seven years?)
Storm clouds gathering for a brutal hurricane season | FP Passport
Spill response leader: 'Touch and go' through hurricane season - CNN.com
Hurricanes Versus the Oil Spill - weather.com
BP Media Clampdown: No Photos Of Dead Animals, Please
NOAA Director Toes BP Line; Won't Confirm Sub-Surface Oil Despite Evidence
Underwater Oil Plumes In Gulf Exposed By ABC News (Video) (they finally got a reporter through the blockade; you know, the plumes that don't exist)
Oil 'Everywhere' On Alabama Beach (video) (what BP and the oil-cops don't want you to see)
Oil spill nears Florida beaches as BP tries risky cap move | NOLA.com
Ian Bremmer: Does 'The End Of The Free Market' Mean The End Of Big Oil And The Multi-National Corporation?
Senate Democrats to BP: Suspend dividend payment | NOLA.com
Attention: CNN looking for “The Good Side of the Oil Spill” | Media Matters for America - So, if you can think of a "good side" to one of the worst environmental disasters on record, make sure you let CNN know (pre-oiled shrimp! pretty tar-balls on the beach! insane Republican congressman!)
Think Progress » Rep. Tom Cole on oil spill: ‘Acts of God are acts of God.’ Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), an ardent supporter of the oil industry and adherent of the “drill here, drill now” chant (asshole)
Think Progress » As Oil Arrives On MS Beaches, Will Barbour Continue To Praise BP And Mock News Coverage Of The Spill? (no one will remember anyway)

SCOTUSblog » Analysis: Tilting Miranda toward the police Berghuis v. Thompkins, Opinion recap (five fascist supremes)
Supreme Court Says Suspects Must Disclose Intent to Remain Silent - WSJ.com
Parker Griffith, Alabama Party Switcher, Goes Down In Primary Congressional Fight (a Rahm-bo blue-dog traitor goes down)
Anti-Washington Anger Triggers Highest Number Of Candidates To Run For Congress In 35 Years
Jim Greer Arrested: Former Florida GOP Chairman Charged With Attempting To Defraud State Party
Sarah Palin Snubs Lisa Murkowski, Endorses Tea Party Challenger For Alaska Senate Seat

SEC May Let Goldman Sachs Off The Hook With $621 Million Fine | news junkie post (slap on the wrist)
FT Alphaville » Greek fire (sale)
Is This Woman Too Hot To Be a Banker? - Page 2 - News - New York - Village Voice
Chronic Joblessness Bites Deep - WSJ.com seven million Americans have been looking for work for 27 weeks or more, and most of them—4.7 million—have been out of work for a year or more.

CERN Press Release: Particle Chameleon Caught in the act of Changing (neutrinos have mass)
The Mysterious Neutrinos Strike Again! : NPR
symmetry - April 2010 - Explain it in 60 Seconds: Neutrino
What's a Neutrino? The neutrino and its friends
PowellsBooks.Blog - Original Essays - In Making Our Own Weather, Have We Remade Ourselves? - Powell's Books - "those who live exclusively in an air-conditioned environment endanger their ability to cope with severe heat load."
Teenagers cannot concentrate because their brains are undeveloped findings suggest the brain is not fully developed until people reach their late twenties or even early thirties, which is much later than previously thought.
Darpa Wants to Predict Deadly Pathogens with ‘Prophecy’ | Danger Room | Wired.com
SPACE.com -- Computer Program Learns to Sort Galaxies Like a Human
Fruitfly larvae smell the light : Nature News Genetic tweak fools flies into mistaking light for unpleasant odours.
Is Betelgeuse about to blow? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine (probably not, but yu never know)

How Much The Average American Spends on Entertainment (5.6%)
Welcome to blogland, Paris Review | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times
The Paris Review Blog
My Father's Library - Forbes.com
Natalee Holloway Suspect Joran Van Der Sloot Sought for Peru Murder - ABC News (well, well)
Good50×70 2010 » Healthcare Deprivation
Hospital uses armed man in unannounced drill - Saturday, May 29, 2010 | 2:01 a.m. - Las Vegas Sun Test of security procedures results in frightening moments (now if the nurses had been packing heat ...)

Digg is Deadd - Website Magazine - Website Magazine ("social fatigue")
AT&T makes sweeping changes to data plans, iPhone tethering coming at OS 4 launch -- Engadget ($20/month tethering charge all by itself)
AT&T Kills Unlimited Data Plan or iPhones, iPads (raises the Apple tax)
Keep tabs on what Google knows about you | Workers' Edge - CNET News
Sonic Solutions To Acquire DivX In $323 Million Deal
What is data science? - O'Reilly Radar ("productizing" data)
The RIAA? Amateurs. Here's how you sue 14,000+ P2P users (lawyers discover new revenue stream)
4 Actually Useful Health Apps For Your Android Phone
Teaching with Google Wave - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
AT&T Just Killed Unlimited Wireless Data (and Screwed Everybody in the Process)
AP Stylebook Adds 42 New Guidelines for Social Media
Steve Jobs says Flash has had its day, says Apple focuses on emerging technologies | NetworkWorld.com Community (no flash for you, silly)

0601110
U.S. Officials: Al Qaeda No. 3 Killed his wife, three of his daughters, his granddaughter, and other men women and children were killed (just a little collateral damage)
Costofwar.Com - The Cost of War (all of them)
Tropical storm leaves at least 115 dead in Central America - CNN.com
The Gates of Hell Just Opened In Guatemala

Flotilla Response Won't Hurt Obama's Standing In Muslim World, Says Gibbs (dodges and weaves and says ridiculous things)
Israel Holds Hundreds Seized During Raid on Flotilla - NYTimes.com (won't let anyone who would contradict their lies talk to press)
Israel should lead investigation into attack on Gaza flotilla, says US | World news | The Guardian Turkey's demands for international inquiry blocked at meeting of United Nations security council (there you go)
Judges Quit BP Gulf Oil-Spill Lawsuits Over Conflicts (Update1) - BusinessWeek Hughes has lectured for an oilfield industry professional group that pays his travel expenses, according to filings obtained from the Judicial Watch website.
Israel to release activists detained after flotilla raids - The Irish Times - Tue, Jun 01, 2010 - Taoiseach Brian Cowen warned there would be “most serious consequences” should any harm come to Irish citizens involved with an aid flotilla destined for Gaza.
Turkish PM: Israeli Raid A 'Bloody Massacre'
'The ship turned into a lake of blood,' says activist on Gaza flotilla - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Six Greeks and several others, including a Turkish woman and her 1-year-old baby, were released on Tuesday.
'Next time we'll use more force' (the fuck you state)
NATO Wants Probe Of Israeli Raid
Flotillas and the Wars of Public Opinion | STRATFOR
'Rachel Corrie' Aid Ship Headed Toward Gaza (US waters down UN resolution: both sides at fault for "acts" - there is nothing that Israel could do that would cause condemnation; who's the client state?)
MuzzleWatch: only right-wing Jews can speak for Jews and decide what a "valid" charity is)
Museum of Tolerance premieres documentary about 'Arab Schindlers' who saved Jews | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times
What does Israel fear from media coverage? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (the truth?)

Eunomia » The Gaza Blockade The blockade is a policy aimed at the steady immiseration and deeper impoverishment of Gazans (this policy is supposed to make Hamas unpopular with Gazans and is totally insane unless it is the end itself: to propagate and replicate oppresson and misery
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Larison’s Right
Eunomia » Self-Destructive “Self-Defense” (reflexive Israel-defender Leslie "no atrocity too far" Gelb attacks knee-jerk "legion of poseurs" which is either anti-semetic hippies or the UN Security Council

The Plum Line - Anthony Weiner strongly defends Israeli attack on flotilla - Weiner, one of Israel's leading allies in Congress (where are the allies of America?)
Egypt Lifts Its Side Of Gaza Blockade
GIYUS.ORG - Give Israel Your United Support (Israeli propaganda tool now available for download)

BP Oil Spill Close To Florida: Oil Sheen Spotted Nine Miles From Pensacola Beach
Efforts to End Oil Flow From BP Well Are Over, Coast Guard Says - Bloomberg.com (all the happy-talk is over, now what, Obama?)
BP Criminal Investigation Launched, Attorney General Holder Says
BP Criminal Investigation Launched By Feds "We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him 'What's that all over your face?'" said Nungesser.
Magazine Preview - Spillonomics - Underestimating Risk - NYTimes.com Years before the Deepwater Horizon rig blew, BP was developing a reputation as an oil company that took safety risks to save money
Gulf Oil Spill: Massive Underwater Plumes Spell Disaster, Scientists Say
Underwater Oil Plumes Disputed By BP CEO Tony Hayward ("what fucking plumes")
Ed Markey Demands BP Produce Oil Plume Research, Data (those fucking plumes)
In 1979, Less Complicated Oil Leak Took 10 Months To Stop
BP Adopts the Public Face of Dick Cheney | Emptywheel
Browner won't guess prospects of plugging oil leak - Gulf Oil Spill 2010 | Gulf Oil Spill Pictures, Gulf Oil Spill News - Salon.com Top Obama advisor won't pick odds on whether BP will manage to fix the spill this time around (last week it was 60-70%)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Good news for Bobby Jindal Even the liberal New Republic is impressed (and can't bring themselves to mention his rabid support of off-shore drill baby drilling)
YouTube - Cop Kicks BP Protester Off Bike Then Arrest Cameraman Who Flimed It!

Supreme Court Miranda Ruling: Suspects Must Explicitly Tell Police They Want To Remain Silent: turns defendants' rights "upside down." (5-4 with the usual assholes: no "rights" for you)
Bob Herbert - Our Epic Foolishness - NYTimes.com - If a bank is too big to fail, it’s way too big to exist. If an oil well is too far beneath the sea to be plugged when something goes wrong, it’s too deep to be drilled in the first place (No we can't +tragic missed opportunity costs)
Shadow Congress: More Than 170 Former Lawmakers Ply The Corridors Of Power As Lobbyists | TPMMuckraker (Texas and New York win)
Health Care Repeal Losing Steam - "To date, the opposition has been more successful in defining (the law) than we have been," said Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. (the party of no has been more successful defining just about everything)
Daily Kos: GOP epic fail on health reform repeal
Memo to media: Do not trust Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe | Media Matters for America (the next CNN hires)
Richard Cohen - Did liberals get it wrong on crime? (they made the mistake of thinking it was linked to poverty, or something +Cohen hates black people)
Don't ask GOP pollster about Brown poll - Ben Smith - politico.com (Scotty "Cosmo" Brown voted against DADT repeal, against 77% of his constituents +now he's "a contender for the Republican nomination for the presidency")
Al Gore, Tipper Gore Separating After 40 Years Of Marriage

For Some Homeowners in Foreclosure, a Rent-Free Approach - NYTimes.com
Jingle mail and the mortgage crisis | Analysis & Opinion | about 24% of all mortgaged properties are underwater. And if you’re being foreclosed upon now, you probably defaulted 438 days ago. In New York, that figure is 561 days.
Is Digital Revolution Driving Decline in U.S. Car Culture? - Advertising Age - Digital (no, you idiots, they don't have fucking jobs)

Interesting times in the sky (Betelgeuse may go type-II supernova soon)
Physicists solve missing neutrino mystery › News in Science (ABC Science) Under the prevailing Standard Model, neutrinos cannot have mass. But the new experiments prove that they do.

WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency (wikileaks and the battle to control what you're allowed to know)
Sean Haldane: 'I now think poetry has more capacity to change people than psychotherapy' | Agenda Q&A | From the Observer | The Observer Sean Haldane, a nominee for the post of professor of poetry at Oxford, talks about his dual life as a poet and neuroscientist
Sean Haldane
BBC News - Work starts in £15m plan to get Concorde flying
Free Speech FAQ

The Atlantic :: Magazine :: How to Save the News Its business rationale is as an advertising-delivery vehicle, with 80 percent of the typical paper’s total revenue coming from ads. That’s what’s going away
Why the Digital Economy Act simply won't work | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Google Dumps Microsoft Windows Company-Wide -- Blames Windows For China Hacking Attack (employees can use Apple or Linux)
Leaked Intel roadmap reveals six new notebook CPUs for 2010, better battery life in 2011 -- Engadget
Android’s Froyo vs. iPhone OS4.0. Fight!
Apple is the new AOL and new Microsoft, and whoa that can't be a good thing | Betanews

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Québec is on fire Video
CBC News - Montreal - Quebec fire situation remains critical
German President Horst Koehler Quits Over Military Remarks
The English Defence League uncovered | UK news | guardian.co.uk
AP: Pope's coverup before he was Pope
Top Canadian Commander In Afghanistan Ousted Over Allegations Of 'Inappropriate Personal Relationship'

Smoke From Canada Fires Wafts Into NH - New Hampshire News Story - WMUR Manchester
Quebec Forest Fire Smoke Drifts Into Region - News Story - WPTZ Plattsburgh
Update: Smog alert issued because of forest fire smoke in Ottawa
Canadian fires bring smoke to northern New England - Boston.com

This Is The Article I Am Sick Of Reading » Ten Percent
CBC News - World - Israelis on ship acted in self-defence: Netanyahu
NATO to meet Tuesday on Gaza flotilla raid by Israel-Politics/Nation-News-The Economic Times
BBC News - Where next for under-pressure Israel? The high number of deaths in the Israeli interception of the Gaza flotilla has led to an inevitable diplomatic fallout for Israel.
Daily Kos: Israel's attack tests NATO Doctrine. [Update] NATO agrees
Daily Kos: Israel massacres unarmed peace activists (time to suspend all aid to Israel)
YouTube - IDF Boarding Gaza Aid Flotilla
Mavi Marmara video: Footage From Israeli Raid On Gaza Flotilla
DEBKAfile - Why was Israeli raider force unprepared for violent resistance?
Israeli Raid: 'Bloody, Bungled Takeover' Deepens Israel's Isolation - Israel also appears close to destroying its relationship with key strategic ally Turkey.
Israel Boat Raid Sparks International Outcry (Turkey: "This was murder")
A Special Place in Hell / The Second Gaza War: Israel lost at sea - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News We are no longer defending Israel. We are now defending the siege, which is itself becoming Israel's Vietnam.
'The images we saw this morning were devastating for the country I love so much' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News Bernard-Henri Levy rebukes Israel for action over Gaza flotilla.
Israeli prime minister cancels White House meeting - Yahoo! News Israel's prime minister has called off a planned visit to the White House to deal with a crisis over a botched naval raid that killed 10 pro-Palestinian activists (failed terrorist state)
Israel attacks Gaza aid fleet - Middle East - Al Jazeera English At least 19 people were killed and dozens injured when troops intercepted the convoy of ships dubbed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday, Israeli radio reported.
Israel attacks Gaza flotilla - live coverage | World news | guardian.co.uk
Gaza Flotilla ATTACKED: Israel Storms Aid Ship, At Least 10 Dead
MJ Rosenberg: Israel's Kent State: After Flotilla Massacre, Netanyahu Cannot Come
Israel attacks aid ship, kills at least 10 civilians - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - The one silver lining from these incidents is that the real face of Israel becomes increasingly revealed and undeniable. Not even the most intense propaganda systems can prettify a lethal military attack on ships carrying civilians and humanitarian aid to people living in some of the most wretched and tragic conditions anywhere in the world ... will the US be the only country not to condemn Israel's actions? (yes +deselected fact: " Israel is the official Owner of international waters (which is where the flotilla was when it was attacked). +sorta like BP)
Videos Of The Raid - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan They attacked a civilian flotilla in international waters breaking no law. When they met fierce if asymmetric resistance, they opened fire. And we are now being asked to regard the Israelis as the victims ... The Israelis seem to be making decisions as if they can get away with anything
Why the Gaza boat deaths are a huge deal | FP Passport
Israel's Memorial Day Attack on Gaza Aid Flotilla | The Middle East Channel
Update: Initial reports – 10-16 people killed, 30-60 injured in Israeli attack on freedom flotilla
Gaza aid flotilla could hit Turkey tourism - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
YouTube - Protesters storms Israeli consulate in Turkey
YouTube - Israel attacks aid flotilla Turkish ship
Free Gaza Movement (freegazaorg) on Twitter
Did Twitter censor the #flotilla hashtag following the Israel attack? | Technology | guardian.co.uk (no, just thought it was spam)
The Audacity of the Free Gaza Flotilla | CommonDreams.org Breaking the Israeli Siege of Gaza May Lead to an Attack at Sea, Detention Camps and Deportation
IsraelFactSheet.pdf - Ensure a Strong U.S.-Israel Partnership: Barack Obama and Joe Biden strongly support the U.S.-Israel relationship, a bond that is mutually beneficial to each country as we share common values, histories, and a dedication to democracy (I don't think that word "partnership" means what you think it does)
World in shock over fatal convoy raids - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) with many accusing the nation of using excessive force.
Bush administration pledges Israel more than requested in loan guarantees « Partners for Peace (what Junior did)
Israeli Commandos Kill as Many as 10-16 Aid Activists, wound over 50 as they Board, Capture Gaza Aid Flotilla | Informed Comment here is no reason to think that denying Palestinians enough food or medical supplies or concrete will actually deter the small number directly involved in violence ... It is worth noting on Memorial Day that the Israeli attack deeply complicates the task of the US military in the region.
Anitboycott Compliance: the United States adopted two laws that seek to counteract the participation of U.S. citizens in other nation's economic boycotts or embargoes (the AIPAC law: you can't boycott Israel)
Lift the Gaza blockade | Nick Clegg | Comment is free | The Guardian The suffering is shocking. And nobody will benefit from the radicalism that confinement engenders (December 2009: ideas your government is not allowed to think)
American Radical: the trials of Norman Finkelstein
Irish Boat the MV Rachel Corrie proceeding to Gaza #flotilla - Ali Abunimah

Robert Reich: Why Obama Should Put BP Under Temporary Receivership
BP Prepared for Spill 10 Times Gulf Disaster, Permit Plans Say - BusinessWeek BP Plc said in permit applications for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that it was prepared to handle an oil spill more than ten times larger than the one now spewing crude into the waters off the southern United States (rubber-stamped by Bush's corrupt MMS)
BP chief to Gulf residents: 'I'm sorry' - CNN.com "We're sorry for the massive disruption it's caused their lives. There's no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back." (poor baby: you know, the one with the $4.5 million salary)
Ed Markey: BP 'Lying Or Incompetent' About Scope Of Gulf Oil Spill
BP CEO: Sickened Cleanup Workers Probably Have Food Poisoning | Work in Progress
First-aid tent set up for oil spill workers on Louisiana's Grand Isle | al.com
Gulf Fisherman On Oil Spill: 'Our Way Of Life Is Over. It's The End, The Apocalypse' ("BP + Obama put us out of business" -- not voting for fucking retarded drill, baby drill, Republicans)
YouTube - Interview: Naomi Klein on oil spill

Hullabaloo: Smell Test: the best example I've seen of how the noise machine is framing this Sestak non-scandal (Liz "the media loves me" Cheney doesn't like the way it "smells" and that's enough)
Liz Cheney's deliberately obtuse attack on Bill Clinton and the White House | Media Matters for America
Daily Kos: Mark Kirk's history of lying about his military records (the real scandal you won't hear on Fox from Liz Cheney)
AZ Gov Disses AG And Turns Immigration Laws Defense Over To Outside Counsel | TPM LiveWire Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is outsourcing (sort of) the legal defense of her state's new immigration laws.
Rand Paul Remarks Lead Kentucky Legislature To Pass Civil Rights Legislation has adopted a resolution declaring any form of discrimination to be inconsistent with American values.

Robert Samuelson's Cellphone Standard of Living (let them eat cell-phones, and while we're at it, they can't be poor if they have a TV)
Calculated Risk: Chicago: Shadow Condo Inventory

Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience: A breakthrough cure for Ebola
Chinese Edge Toward Supercomputing Record - NYTimes.com
BBC News - In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers

Support Is Growing For Openly Carrying Permitted Weapons - Hartford Courant (Connecticut is the latest gun-state)

When Companies Respond to Online Criticism With Lawsuits - NYTimes.com (T&J Towing, Kalzmazoo MI, worst towing company in the galaxy, hits the NYT)

Facebook Censors 'Everybody Draw Mohammad Day' Page, Pakistan Lifts Ban
Skype 2.0 Is Here But With Lack Of Full iPad Support | Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers

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UN says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change' | Environment | The Guardian (just when you thought it couldn't get worse)
Robert Greenwald: Falling Off the $1 Trillion Cliff all of those little cost of war counters that have been furiously spinning away on countless websites crossed the $1 trillion mark.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky: What Have we Bought for $1 Trillion? (a whole lot of dead brown people, and not much else, except for giving Iran what it wanted)
Taliban Push Afghan Police Out of Valley - NYTimes.com
Will the World Bank undermine the people of El Salvador in mining dispute? | Grist

Carol Browner: Administration 'Prepared For The Worst,' Oil May Leak Until August (always with the optomistic projections
BP Says 'Top Kill' Failed to Stop Gulf Leak - NYTimes.com
BP Disaster Plan Lacked Realistic Solutions - Newsweek Before flooding the gulf with oil, BP’s plan to handle a disaster was alarmingly short on solutions.
Documents Show Early Worries About Safety of Rig - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist - Obama’s Katrina? Maybe Worse - NYTimes.com (defining moment in Obama's business-friendly presidency: he dithered while opportunity burned)
BP 'top kill' falters: Macondo well keeps spewing oil into the Gulf - CSMonitor.com It will take 7 years for the oil deposit below the Deepwater Horizon well to empty if left alone (seven years of oil into the Gulf)
Gulf Oil Spill: Media Access 'Slowly Being Strangled Off' (there goes your Fourth Amendment)
Oil spill: Fishermen seeking compensation for losses fear the tax man - latimes.com BP's request for tax records poses a problem for some residents of fishing communities in southeastern Louisiana — the nonconformists who haven't kept records or reported their cash income.
But When the Articles Go Away About BP, So will our Memory and Our Rage, Just Like the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. | BuzzFlash.org The oil tyrants and their slaves are just going to re-shuffle the pack. They aren't going to quit. And we'll all be indignant about the oil spill as long as we keep reading articles about it.
Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill - NYTimes.com Americans have long had an unswerving belief that technology will save us — it is the cavalry coming over the hill, just as we are about to lose the battle.
Fishermen Fear Disruption of Their Way of Life - NYTimes.com (fishing for oil; might to re-think that whole D,B,D thing)
Gulf oil spill: BP's 'top kill' effort fails - latimes.com 'This scares everybody — the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing,' an official says. Some hope lies with a new maneuver to cap the leak.
The Oil Drum | The BP Deepwater Oil Spill - LMRP Attempt Continued and Sunday's Open Thread
The Oil Drum | The BP Deepwater Oil Spill - LMRP Attempt Continued (comments: "We put drunk drivers in jail for killing people. Why should these jokers not get the same treatment?")w
How air imperils the sea - CSMonitor.com Rising levels of carbon dioxide make oceans more acidic, putting shellfish, corals, and more at risk (world coral reefs dead in 10 years and we're worrying about some shrimp in Lousiana)
Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it | World news | The Observer The Deepwater Horizon disaster caused headlines around the world, yet the people who live in the Niger delta have had to live with environmental catastrophes for decades
Peter Maass | Articles | Inside the Soul of an Oilman | The Big Money Are petro-execs intrinsically more corrupt than other businessmen?
Six Questions for Peter Maass on the Violent Twilight of Oil—By Ken Silverstein (Harper's Magazine)
A constructive suggestion for retribution against BP : Pharyngula (+why the Gulf States have Republican Governors)
Undersea forces from hurricanes may threaten Gulf pipelines
World's Liquid Fuels Supply (JPG) (the problem)

Mike Mullen On DADT Repeal: Joint Chief Chairman Critical Of Gay Ban Vote The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday he would have preferred that Congress had waited before voting to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law that bans gays from serving openly in the military (at least another 100 years; your evangelical military at work, underminding their commander)
Planned Muslim Cultural Center Near Ground Zero Prompts Massive Right-Wing Freakout | TPMMuckraker
Whiskey Fire: A Special Strategy According to the always sagacious (trans: douchebag) Jacob Weisberg, there exists "a struggle for the soul of the Republican Party." (which is "racist and stupid")
Liz Cheney Wants Investigation Of Joe Sestak White House Job Offer (and who the fuck is Liz Cheney?)
WATCH: Separation of Corporation and State: The Birth of the 28th Amendment Movement : Chelsea Green
Is Palin tarnishing her brand? - The Week As the candidates she's endorsing flame out, even some Republican strategists are wondering whether Sarah Palin is damaging her political credibility (that's ok, Rahm Emmanuel is having the same problem)
For unhappy GOP voters, California's a tea-party free zone | McClatchy Despite their claims to the contrary, the candidates seeking to become governor or senator are all political or corporate insiders.
Maine Business Is Shut Without a Renewed Visa - NYTimes.com (Obama wants to see everyone's birth certificate)

Will Wall Street Go Free? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com - This is simply incomprehensible (AIG walks: nobody responsible)
On Financial Reform, White House Frustrates Wall Street And Progressives | TPMDC (but you can guess which one more)
Fundamentally - How Far Will Europe’s Economic Tremors Reach? - NYTimes.com
Fair Game - 3,000 Pages of Financial Reform, but Still Not Enough - NYTimes.com (Glass-Steagall was a 34-page document)
The Consensus On Big Banks Shifts, But Not At Treasury « The Baseline Scenario Our top policymakers are simply convinced that what is good for the biggest and most dangerous element on Wall Street is good for the American economy (rest of the world getting control of their predatory banks, but not US; "Don't look back" Barry is a captive of Wall Street)
Politics -- Wall Street's War -- RollingStone.com - Congress looked serious about finance reform – until America's biggest banks unleashed an army of 2,000 paid lobbyists
States Passing Budget Cuts Onto Local Governments
Nearly 900,000 Californians are long-term unemployed | McClatchy

elaine ecklund | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
Ecklund vs Larson & Witham on Religion Among Elite Scientists | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
Are Top Scientists Really So Atheistic? Look at the Data | The Intersection | Discover Magazine (* for comments)
Should God Attend Chemistry Class? - Percolator - The Chronicle of Higher Education (scientists should "discuss" religion in science class)
SSRC Guide: Religious Engagement Among American Undergraduates
Scientists and Religion : EvolutionBlog (Ecklund's methodology/selection issues)
Elaine Howard Ecklund - How Religious Are Scientists? | Point of Inquiry
"Science vs. Religion" discovers what scientists really think about religion - detailed survey of almost 1,700 scientists at elite American research universities
Science vs. Religion: What do scientists say? - Rod Dreher (one of Rod Dreher's "colleagues" - the Templeton Foundation)
The Curious Case of the Templeton Crusaders « You're not helping (+Jerry Coyne is "alchohol fueled")
Scientists as “spiritual atheists” | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine (mainline Protestants over-represented among scientists +"Jewish" is a religion)
Does Reason Know What It Is Missing? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Polypterus / CornellEvolutionProject.org
Are the {New,Affirmative} Atheists "extreme"? : Thoughts from Kansas
Salty Current: Questions for accomodationists
Nature, "Leading scientists still reject God"  July 23, 1998 Nature, Vol. 394, No. 6691, p. 313 (1998)

A 'cascade' of brain activity as people die could explain near death experiences - Telegraph
Full List - The 50 Worst Inventions - TIME
Mobile phone number suspended after three users die in 10 years - Telegraph

Police: Girl raped, then relocated | Concord Monitor 13 years later, suspect arrested - After being raped and impregnated by a fellow churchgoer more than twice her age, a 15-year-old Concord girl was forced by Trinity Baptist Church leaders to stand before the congregation to apologize before they helped whisk her out of state, according to the police (homeschooled in proper Christian behavior)
Op-Ed Contributor - One More for the Path - NYTimes.com
Why preserve Van Gogh's palette? – Telegraph Blogs
Tate Modern in display of voyeurism for photography curator's debut | Art and design | The Guardian
Follow My Logic? A Connective Word Takes the Lead - NYTimes.com (so, um, like so, is the new oh)

Choosing to Wear the Muslim Headscarf - Oprah.com
When Freedom Means Choosing A Headscarf : NPR
New Statesman - The veil: a modesty slip for misogyny It is patriarchy rather than religion that oppresses women across the world.
hijab: Women, Islam, and Hijab

Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope | Monday Note
Digital Domain - YouTube Wants You to Sit and Stay Awhile - NYTimes.com

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BBC News - Thousands flee volcanos in Ecuador and Guatemala
U.S. Army Developing Pakistan Attack Plan As Possible Response To Terror Attack (invade)
Operators of Drones Are Faulted in Afghan Deaths - NYTimes.com (o rly: winning the hearts and blown-up bodies in the video-game war)
English Defence League: Inside the violent world of Britain's new far right | UK news | The Guardian to hit racially sensitive areas in attempt to provoke disorder over summer (they have their own teabaggers)
Merkel Goes From Glories To Disgrace the German chancellor's handling of the continent's economic crisis has turned her into someone widely disliked at home and increasingly isolated and even reviled abroad.
Vatican Sex Abuse Prosecutor Calls For Death Penalty, Hell For Guilty Priests

Tropical Storm Agatha, First Of Season, Forms Off Guatemala
‘Top Kill’ Fails to Plug Leak - BP Readies Next Approach - NYTimes.com
BP says top kill has not stopped Gulf oil leak and now considering other options | NOLA.com it will move on to its next option, known as LMRP (Lower Marine Riser Package) (on to the next FAIL)
Robert L. Cavnar: Top Kill Likely a Failure
Limits on access to oiled waters, coast frustrates journalists | NOLA.com (BP owns everything, screw your "free press")
BP 'systemic failure' endangers Gulf cleanup workers - Yahoo! News
A nation mesmerized: Can BP plug the Gulf gusher? - Boston.com (that 70% chance of success is turning into 100% chance of filling the Gulf with oil)
BP and US Government 'Command Center' Guarded by Company From Afghan Embassy Hazing Scandal | The Nation (the pieces come together)
Oil Spill Response: 'Army Of Temp Workers' Bused To Grand Isle For Obama Appearance Leave Soon Afterward (it's always been about the visuals)
The Oil Drum | Deepwater Oil Spill - Why Top Kill Starts and Stops, Watching the Flows, and a Live Comment Thread
Scientists Build Case for Undersea Plumes - NYTimes.com (but if you can't see it, it doesn't matter)
Oil spill is taking a toll on BP's and government's credibility | McClatchy (they're joined at the hip)
Obama White House Defends Itself Against James Carville's Oil Spill Criticism Carville described the findings as "One of the most devastating things ever. Why this place wasn't fumigated, cleaned out? I don't know."
Chamber President Says His Group Will Find Way to Get Government to Share Cost of Gulf Coast Clean-Up - The Note (you know, that free-market, capitalist CoC)
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Don't over regulate BP - Dianna Heitz - politico.com (and don't raise the liability cap, either)
Congress Shouldn't Raise Liability Limits on BP, Says Chamber's Donohue - The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (see's no inconsistency in his radical-right organization)
Toxic Oil Spill Rains Warned Could Destroy North America | EUTimes.net
Will BPA's Impact on the Male Sex Drive Finally Spur a National Ban? | Business | GreenBiz.com (patented "secret" dispersant makes your penis fall off)
Oceans and human history - Boston.com (God gave us the oceans to drill, baby, drill)

George Lakoff: Obama's Missing Moral Narrative (couldn't bring himself to say anything for 5 weeks) (might be related to his missing moral center) (spectacular message FAIL)
Administration opposes Arizona law that penalizes hiring of illegal immigrants
Obama Administration Signals Lawsuit Over Arizona Immigration Law
Immigration law protesters march on Ariz. Capitol
Why So Few Medals of Honor? - NYTimes.com

Mindless NYT Story on Weakened Jobs Bill Stirs More Deficit Hysteria | The Seminal
Hullabaloo I am honestly gobsmacked that this government has decided that pretending to care about the deficit on the backs of the unemployed is good politics or good policy at a time of 10% unemployment. It's mind boggling. I guess they figure the other 90% are employed so to hell with those losers (Rahm's Blue Dogs vote against extending un-employment benefits +Obama pouring 1/2 billion into useless border security)
Your Money - Another Debt Crisis Is Brewing, This One in Student Loans - NYTimes.com

Special report: Living in denial - New Scientist
Opinion: Lyme Disease Is a Terrifying Health Epidemic That's Going Largely Unnoticed - AOL News Lyme disease -- a disease carried by ticks - as many as 420,000 because of underreporting (doctors hate to diagnose this disease)
Daily Kos: Is elite education worth it? (not unless you're already in the elite)
The Future of Surveillance — When Automated Brains Keep Watch 24/7 - Popularmechanics.com
Watching the Watchers: Why Surveillance Is a Two-Way Street - Popularmechanics.com If governments and businesses can keep an eye on us in public spaces, we ought to be able to look back (that's why there are laws against recording criminal cops)
FQXi Community Is our universe housed in a black hole? Or did it exist before the Big Bang? If so, we could solve the mystery of dark energy—surprisingly, it’s all down to the humble neutrino (that would explain a lot of things)
YouTube - Jonathan's Cochlear Implant Activation 8 mo., Rt Ear cont'd
Team readies for 520-day simulated Mars trip - Space- msnbc.com Six men from Russia, Europe and China are preparing to spend 520 days together in a sealed-off warren to take a simulated trip to Mars to test how long isolation would affect humans.
Cambodian 'jungle woman' flees back to wild - Telegraph

The Deconstruction Zone: Things That Make Us Go Hmmm...Part 4
The Deconstruction Zone: Many Tongues, One Voice...Hmmm
brody.pdf Invoking the Ancestors: Edward Sapir, Bugs Bunny, and the Popol Vuh - Michal Brody
Maya Hero Twins - Wikipedia
YouTube - The Official Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden Trailer

Cognitive Behavior Therapy On The iPhone - Personality Disorders - Cognitive Behavior Therapy On The iPhone (logical end-point)
Woman Follows Google Maps “Walking” Directions, Gets Hit, Sues (responsible for stupidity)

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North Korea: We're Heading To 'The Brink Of War'
BBC News - China 'will not protect' Korea ship attackers whoever sank a South Korean warship in March, Premier Wen Jiabao has said ("we're not mentioning anybody by name; it could have been a giant whale armed with torpedos")
Sectarian Attacks on Lahore Mosques Kill More Than 80 - TIME
Australia Sues Japan Over Whaling ("scientific" whaling)
Guatemala Volcano: Pacaya Eruption Kills TV Reporter, 3 Missing
Ireland | Human Trafficking | Sex Slaves | Prostitution Human trafficking is a growing problem in Ireland.
Tight Pants Ban Takes Effect In Indonesia
Peru to free Lori Berenson - Los Angeles Times

'Top Kill' Hype Collides With Reality
There Was 'Nobody in Charge' - WSJ.com After the Blast, Horizon Was Hobbled by a Complex Chain of Command; A 23-Year-Old Steps In to Radio a Mayday (and was reprimanded by BP! +no safety rules, natch)
22-Mile Oil Plume Under Gulf Nears Rich Waters ... nearing an underwater canyon, where it could poison the foodchain for sealife in the waters off Florida
Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup: Boom Hasn't Been As Effective As Hoped (laughable)
Mitchell Bard: GOP Hypocrisy Has Been Exposed by the BP Oil Disaster Many of the same conservatives who chanted "Drill baby, drill" are now using the BP oil spill to score political points, accusing the president of Katrina-like incompetence.

Palin smears famous author as possible pedophile; Time calls the attack shrewd | Media Matters for America Beltway reporters are so enamored with (or scared to death of) right-wing hardball that they're incapable of even defending their own brethren when condemned by the GOP Noise Machine (+Time's new hire, Michael Crowley, hearts Caribou Barbie)
White House Asked Bill Clinton To Talk To Joe Sestak About Senate Run (offered job for no money)
The American Conservative -- McCain and the POW Cover-Up The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam (but the press loves McCain)
Democrats try to nix 'America Speaking Out' funds through 'YouCut' - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
Think Progress » Former Argentine president says Bush told him ‘the best way to revitalize the economy is war.’ (we'll never know just how insane Bush was during his reign of Gog and Magog)
Glenn Beck smears Obama's 11-year-old daughter | Media Matters for America

Calculated Risk: "Housing Production Credit Crisis"? The last thing we need is more production - and then sticking the U.S. taxpayers with more bad loans
Is there any reason to subsidize construction loans? | Analysis & Opinion (no, but Obama wants to restart the bubble)
Simon Johnson: Is The SEC Still Working For Wall Street?
Exclusive: US Probes Goldman's Timberwolf Deal, Alleged Victim Says 'Whole Thing Was Fraudulent Concoction'
Tier 5: The Despair Of The 99ers (no help for long-term unemployed - "try Mexico")
Light-rail extension delayed until 2026 in Arizona (that would be "never")

friends of the pleistocene
How To Crowdsource Grading | HASTAC

Soldier in Iraq Loses Home Over $800 Debt | Mother Jones (Texas HOA sold $300K house out from under him for spare change)
How The U.S. Government Killed The Safest Car Ever Built

Tell Slate about your political memories. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
How Slate Edited History
Slate conducted a mass experiment in altering political memories. Were you fooled? - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
Contaminated memories and criminal injustice. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine Contaminated memories and criminal injustice.
A cookbook for memories of sexual abuse. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
Exploiting psychology in law and advertising. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine

friends of the pleistocene
New Ebola Drug 100 Percent Effective In Monkeys : NPR
The 4 Stages of Fear, Attacked-by-a-Mountain-Lion Edition | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions | DISCOVER Magazine

Daring Fireball: Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks
Why can programs empty the clipboard when they start up? - The Old New Thing - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
What is an HTML 5 WebSocket - KAAZING.ORG - Home - Kaazing Gateway
xkcd: Snopes
One tablet per kiddo | Loaded - CNET
The next Apple TV revealed: cloud storage and iPhone OS on tap... and a $99 price tag -- Engadget

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Jamaica: 73 killed in hunt for alleged drug lord (consequences of the American-funded war on drugs/price-support system)

Deepwater Horizon fire and oil spill news | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
APNewsBreak: New, giant sea oil plume seen in Gulf | Top AP Stories | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
New, giant sea oil plume seen in Gulf - Gulf oil spill- msnbc.com Plume stretches 22 miles from leaking wellhead toward Alabama
Setback Delays ‘Top Kill’ Effort to Seal Leaking Oil Well in Gulf - NYTimes.com
Gulf Oil Spill Now Far Worse Than Exxon Valdez, Worst In U.S. History, Scientists Say
Report: 'Top Kill' Effort Succeeds In Blocking Gulf Coast Oil Leak | TPM LiveWire (well, for the length of Obama's speech, anyway)
BP worker takes 5th, making prosecution a possibility | McClatchy
Nation & World | Rig worker: BP official rejected safety concerns | Seattle Times Newspaper
Gulf oil spill: 'Top kill' procedure begins | Greenspace | Los Angeles Times
Obama Oil Spill Press Conference: Government In Charge Of Oil Disaster Response
Deepwater Horizon Response
Daily Kos: Gulf gusher "top kill" attempt
Daily Kos: Fishgrease: Booming the Top Kill
Critical Perspective | Talking Points Memo
Oil Spill Kabuki | Mother Jones
Elizabeth Birnbaum QUITS Under Pressure: MMS Director Is Pushed Out After Gulf Spill (Obama appointee: she de-regulated sex and drugs at the MMS)
Crisis Places Focus on Beleaguered Agency’s Chief - NYTimes.com Ms. Birnbaum, a Harvard-educated lawyer who has moved among staff jobs on Capitol Hill for 23 years ...
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog
2010 oil spill update: BP may be trying to stop the wrong leak (video)
Gulf well 'shouted' warnings for hours before BP rig explosion | McClatchy
Worker: Transocean, BP argued before blast - Gulf oil spill- msnbc.com Rig's top mechanic corroborates other statement of BP 'taking shortcuts'
Curious To Hear Your Thoughts | Talking Points Memo But it's a national crisis and seems like it requires a national response, not even some attenuated subcontracting out of it to a private company that has numerous interests quite different from the public good.
Count Crimes Committed in Oily Gulf of Mexico: Ann Woolner - Bloomberg.com
BP wants Houston judge with oil ties to hear spill cases | McClatchy (their own judge, their own Coast Guard, their own local police depts)
UPDATE 3-BP-owned Alaska oil pipeline shut after spill | Reuters * 800-mile pipeline from Alaska's oilfields closed
Moratorium On Deepwater Drilling Expected To Be Announced At Obama Press Conference
Obama's Options: What He Can And Should Say About The Oil Spill Today
Gulf Oil Spill Illness: Four Hospitalized After Getting Sick, 125 Cleanup Boats Recalled
James Carville To Obama: Tell BP 'I'm Your Daddy' And Take The Lead In Response
WH pulling out all the stops to defend oil spill handling to media - Yahoo! News (six weeks late and a billion short)
A Drilling Moratorium That Isn't -- Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
PROTEST! 1 pm, Sunday May 30, by Jackson Square! « Murdered Gulf: Stop the BP Oil Flood now!
Live Feed Oil Gusher GOM
- Cause of Blowout/Fire on Horizon
The Oil Drum | Deepwater Oil Spill - Top Kill "Stage 2," Junk Shots, and Live Comment Thread
Photographers Say BP Restricts Access to Oil Spill - Newsweek Photographers say BP and government officials are preventing them from documenting the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster - “We strongly feel that the reason for this massive [temporary flight restriction] is that BP wants to control their exposure to the press.” (BP owns the Gulf and surrounding states)
Grassroots Mapping
BP oil spill: 9 strange facts - The Week
YouTube - Oil Spill in Alaska Rachel Maddow (in 1979: same players, same corruption, nothing learned)
Rachel Maddow Covers Gulf Oil Spill... From 1979 - mediabistro.com: TVNewser (same techniques: "top hat" "junk shot" "top kill" - all failed)
Hullabaloo The Bush style macho "decider" pose was laughable and Obama's dry technocratic style which relies on "experts" isn't getting us anywhere. So, maybe individuals just have to figure this out for themselves.
Think Progress » Rove Finally Admits That Bush Really Blew It During Katrina: By filling the Minerals Management Service — the government agency responsible for regulating off shore oil drilling — with industry shills who took drugs and had sex with the officials they were supposed to be policing, the Bush administration dangerously eroded the regulatory regime, and missed warnings that could have helped prevent the BP disaster.

Senate Panel Votes To End Don't Ask, Don't Tell | TPMDC Maine Republican Susan Collins joined 15 Democrats in adopting the repeal plan as an amendment to the 2011 Defense Authorization Act (minus Dem Jim Webb)
Obama’s Immigration Policy: "Bush on Steroids"? | Mother Jones The White House’s border-security push draws heavy fire from the left.
Ezra Klein - Here comes impeachment if Obama sits in the White House for six years with a GOP majority in the House of Representatives that the odds are very good -- better than 50 percent -- that he'll be impeached (it's what Republicans do)
Of Course They Are! : Lawyers, Guns & Money filibustering the repeal of DADT would be entirely consistent with the history of this indefensible device ... one of these days politics will end, and What’s In McCain’s Heart will finally emerge! (the real McCain at work +Jacob Weisberg at work)
John Stossel's continued advocacy for a right to discriminate | Media Matters for America Fox's John Stossel has repeatedly called for the repeal of part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, saying that "private businesses ought to get to discriminate" and that free-market forces will resolve racial discrimination (the mustache of evil)
Beck renews witch hunt: Sunstein has "more power than the Fed," "will control your every move" | Media Matters for America
Is Rand Paul Crazier Than Anyone Else in D.C.? - Newsweek The media mock libertarians and other candidates outside the mainstream. But are their ideas really any less valid than those of the ‘centrists’?
Federal Eye - Census takers targeted 113 times this month this year's figures are already much higher than ten years ago (teabaggers at work)

Why Wall Street's Political Poison Is Still Catnip For Many Incumbents | TPMCafe
Looniness in the Cause of Deficit Reduction at the NYT Looniness in the Cause of Deficit Reduction at the NYT - using the pre-1980 method, the Consumer Price Index would be over 9 percent, compared with about 2 percent in the official statistics today." (the elite never cared about your job)

Solar Scientists Agree That the Sun's Recent Behavior Is Odd, but the Explanation Remains Elusive: Scientific American The most recent solar minimum was both long and pronounced. But why?
German physicists develop a quantum interface between light and atoms
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify as Jesus are forced to live together? - By Vaughan Bell - Slate Magazine
WNYC - Radiolab: Animal Minds (April 02, 2010)

tallguywrites: The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield A fifteen page story about the MMR vaccination controversy
Jenny McCarthy Body Count
YouTube - Charlie Brooker's Newswipe S1E4P2
The Contribution of Diagnostic Substitution to the Growing Administrative Prevalence of Autism in US Special Education -- Shattuck 117 (4): 1028 -- Pediatrics
Wakefield gets a wake up call Matt Lauer really come through and take Wakefield to task
WHO | Measles In 2008, there were 164 000 measles deaths globally – nearly 450 deaths every day or 18 deaths every hour.
FRONTLINE: the vaccine war: watch the full program online | PBS
The Immunisation Maze Part 1 (transcript available) - Life Matters - 10 July 2007

:::Philebrity…media, culture, music and more::: » Blog Archive » New Inky CEO Spouts Deluded Pay Wall Jive Mirage All Over Helpless Marty Moss-Coane
Larry King Is Losing the Ratings War to Fox and MSNBC - NYTimes.com (NYT false equivalency: Maddow just the same as Hannity: "bombastic opinion shows" +76 yr-olds really popular among the 18-35 demo)
On the Media: Why no Pulitzer for the National Enquirer? - Los Angeles Times
M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop - NYTimes.com
Pitchfork: M.I.A. Takes Revenge on New York Times Writer Lynn Hirschberg
Lynn Hirschberg's Response to M.I.A. Tweet: 'Fairly Unethical' and 'Infuriating' | The New York Observer
English Russia » Russian Lord of the Rings (illustrations)
The Third Policeman - Wikipedia - Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien

Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5? - Did anyone at Conde Naste look at this and wonder why someone would choose to use this over their very own website?
A GOP Suggestion Site Gets Hijacked by Commenters - Newsweek
Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine
Matias Corporation :: One-Handed Typing Demo

052610
U.S. Is a Top Villain in Pakistan’s Conspiracy Talk - NYTimes.com ("think tanks" causing all the trouble ... and they're right!)
NYC community board OKs ground zero mosque plans - Yahoo! News
Mikey Weinstein's Crusade - By Stephen Glain | Foreign Policy Meet the man who's trying to purge evangelical Christianity from the Pentagon (good luck with that)
Rothschilds Engineer Fire Sale Of UK Infrastructure To Offshore Corporations (at least they sell it in the UK)
Conspiracy For Good
The Associated Press: Bishop: 100 cases in 10 yrs for Italy priest abuse (WLPR)

BP Official Outlines Best, Worst Case Scenarios for Stopping Oil | PBS NewsHour | May 25, 2010 | PBS (they lied about the flow-rate because they didn't want to hurt tourism ... when they knew beaches would be covered with oil in three weeks ... no consequences)
Gulf Coast chefs, fishermen fight tide of misinformation - CNN.com ("misinformation" = "information")
BP Is 'Big And Important': BP Chairman Strikes Out At Critics, CEO Scolds Photographer At Oil Spill Site (video) (get off my fucking oil!)
Dylan Ratigan: Mr. President Defend America our current President, who often appears to think that government works best when it is subservient to Corporations under even the most dubious circumstances.
Oil on the Beach at Grand Isle State Park | The Seminal
Gulf of Mexico oil spill means mini job boom for the short term | NOLA.com (for all those who were, you know, employed before BP destroyed their jobs +death from chemicals)
BP Fixed a Negative Pressure Test before the Well Blew | Emptywheel
Daily Kos: The problem is oil, the solution is to break our addiction (+Jindal is a dumb-ass)
Bill Nelson: Obama Should Send In Military If BP Can't Stop Leak Today (yeah, Florida is screwed, how's that Bush V Gore thing working out for you?)
BP Oil Spill Becoming Political Headache for Obama? Some Democrats Slam White House Response - ABC News - The "political stupidity is unbelievable," (the gang that couldn't message straight)
James Carville To Obama On Oil Spill: 'Get Down Here And Take Control... We're About To Die' , "Man, you got to get down here and take control of this! Put somebody in charge of this thing and get this moving! We're about to die down here!"
Gina Solomon: Oil Spill Clean-Up Workers Getting Sick (which is why, you know, they had to sign those death-waivers if they wanted the job)
SkyTruth: BP / Gulf Oil Spill - 39 Million Gallons And Growing

Poll Finds Americans Pessimistic, Dissatisfied with Washington - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Would Defeat of Sham DADT Repeal Boost ENDA’s Chances? | The Seminal
Zev Chafets's 'Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One,' reviewed by David Frum (multi-millionaire, house looks like Versailles, rails against "elites")
Deportation Nightmare: Eduardo Caraballo, US Citizen Born In Puerto Rico, Detained As Illegal Immigrant Despite presenting identifying documents and even his birth certificate, Caraballo was held by federal immigration authorities over the weekend and threatened with deportation ... "Because of the way I look, I have Mexican features, they pretty much assumed that my papers were fake." (Arizona: papers? you got papers?)
America’s Voice | Pres. Obama Challenges GOP to Help on Immigration Reform – Then Rewards Those Who Are Blocking It (seems to love doing shit like this)
Police vent to Holder on Arizona immigration law | Reuters Arizona's controversial new immigration law will strain police ties to the community, sap limited law enforcement resources and could lead to an increase in crime, a group of police chiefs told U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday.
AZ Gov To Obama: How About Some Helicopters And Drones For The Border? | TPM LiveWire (crazy lady wants predators on the border, no papers needed)
Mitch McConnell On Rand Paul: 'He's Said Quite Enough' To The National Media (not really)
Top Social Conservative: Hitler Used Gay Soldiers Because They Had 'No Limits' | TPMMuckraker (been watching too much gay s&m porno)
New Gun-Rights Gambit Sweeping Nation: 'Firearms Freedom' | TPMMuckraker (guns, baby, guns!)
O'Keefe Pleads Guilty In Landrieu Phone-Tampering Case, Gets Three Years Probation | TPMMuckraker O'Keefe was sentenced to three years of probation, a fine of $1,500 and 100 hours of community service (that worked out really well: an ACORN too far)

Progressives Demand: No Behind-Closed-Doors Deals On Wall Street Reform | TPMDC (but back-room Obama just can't help himself)
Geithner Urges Europe to Act on Markets - WSJ.com - Reassure Markets (always their first priority)
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time (US Debt Clock: passes $13 Trillion)

BBC News - First human 'infected with computer virus'
Really? - Throat Exercises Can Relieve Sleep Apnea - Question - NYTimes.com (as good as CPAP)

Post Now - Funding restored for D.C. streetcars (idiots on city council)
Movieclips Wants To Drink Other Movie Clips Sites’ Milkshake With Mashups
Top ABC News Producer Leaving Network To Become High School Guidance Counselor | The New York Observer Mimi Gurbst liked to advise her colleagues on various ways to improve their personal and professional lives (read comments (many ABC people) to learn some of the reasons for ABC's long, slow, decline into mediocrity: esp. see "Disclosure Time" +"culture of Heathers")
Who Hates Mimi Gurbst?
When Online Commenters Attack - mediabistro.com: WebNewser
Burkas and Birkins by Lindy West - Film - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper I Watched 146 Minutes of Sex and the City 2 and All I Got Was This Religious Fundamentalism
SATC 2: Painfully Clichéd, "Epic Eyesore" (review roundup)
YouTube - Johanna Blakely: Lessons from fashion's free culture (no copy-protection on clothes)
Hipster Dykes | Model Lesbians
Autostraddle — Why Lesbians Won’t Give Up the Hipster

10 Things You Need To Know About Today’s Facebook Privacy Changes
New King of Technology - Apple Overtakes Microsoft - NYTimes.com
Whisper Systems Mobile Security Suite (Android, you won't see this on the Jobs-Phone)

052510
Hawkeye Poll: Most Americans support preemptive nuclear strikes (most Americans are insane)
Europe Feels Heat Despite Drive to Cut Deficits - NYTimes.com
Children Taunted In Iraq: U.S. Soldier Under Investigation (video) ("Are you going to grow up to be a terrorist?)
Lionel Garcia, Marine From Pasco, Brags on Facebook About Humiliating Afghani - Seattle News - The Daily Weekly
Who says Jews and racism don't go together? - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Haaretz expose: All the corruption charges being leveled against Ehud Olmert - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Israeli Academics Denounce Government's Chomsky Ban
BBC News - Kenya court rules Islamic courts are illegal
CBC News - World - N. Korea to sever ties with S. Korea

BP’s Police Protection Units | FDL News Desk
Bob Herbert - Following BP’s Lead on the Oil Spill - NYTimes.com - after all this time, after more than a month of BP’s demonstrated incompetence, the administration continues to dither ... Incredibly, until The Times blew the whistle in an article on Monday, environmental waivers were still being offered for oil drilling in the gulf ... President Obama has an obligation to make it unmistakably clear that BP’s interests are not the same as America’s interests (he just can't bring himself to do it)
Obama administration conflicted about relying on BP to stop gulf oil spill (could have used disaster to push for energy bill - another missed disaster)
Daily Kos: GOP blocks Dem proposal for unlimited liability caps in oil spills Republican Senator James Inhofe has stepped up to the plate yet again for big oil, pledging a Republican filibuster against legislation offered by New Jersey's Robert Menendez that would completely lift the $75 million liability cap currently protecting big oil companies from claims of economic damage from oil spills.
Ezra Klein - The big offshore lie The Obama administration, in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, has apparently decided that digging in on its misguided decision in March to expand offshore drilling is the way to go (d,b,d)
Inspector General Faults Minerals Management Service - NYTimes.com Federal regulators responsible for oversight of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico allowed industry officials several years ago to fill in their own inspection reports (Bush-era "regulation")
Tidewater CEO says regulations in wake of oil spill could push energy exploration to foreign shores | NOLA.com
AMERICAblog News: BP CEO walks on oil covered beach, barks orders to media - United States of BP - "Get off my oil"
BP Oil Spill: White House Says It Will Be Worst in U.S. History - ABC News Day 36 of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill With No End in Sight (the Gulf of Oil)
Interior Department IG Report: Regulators Accepted Oil-Company Gifts, Lunches, Sports Tickets ... In addition, MMS employees admitted using crystal meth .. and did we mention the prostitutes? (lotta free time doing regulatin')
BP Oil Spill Live Feed: Company To Cut Video During Top Kill Procedure

U.S. Is Said to Expand Secret Actions in Mideast - NYTimes.com (now the military is doing the spying and assassinations; this will surely end well)
Dems Reach Deal To Repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' | TPMDC
Levin: White House Got Serious About DADT 'In The Last Few Days' | TPMDC (he was in no hurry +military: the fourth branch of government)
Fox News Video Omits Applause During Obama's West Point Speech (video) (Fox at work)
Petraeus’ Challenge to Obama | Emptywheel

Any Given Sunday | The Nation - We have witnessed the greatest implosion of American capitalism in nearly a century, and the only grassroots movement the cataclysm seems to have birthed is a right-wing populist backlash
Goldman Sachs: Lincoln's Derivatives Proposal Likely Won't Pass (she never wanted it to)
Investor concerns on Europe, Korea drive markets down
Libor Spike Is Rekindling Fears Of Another Financial Crisis - Yahoo! Finance

SPACE.com -- Comet's Collision with the Sun Captured in 3-D
Planetary Bullies Make Astronomers Rethink the Habitable Zone | Wired Science | Wired.com
Testosterone Makes Women Less Trusting | LiveScience (and more likely to watch football)
BBC News - Whales and dolphins - 'resource' or 'right'? New research is showing that whales and dolphins possess intelligence and culture more complex that we had previously assumed
Sharks Can Become Invisible : Discovery News (invisible land-sharks!)
Not just oil: US hit peak water in 1970 and nobody noticed
Magic numbers: A meeting of mathemagical tricksters - physics-math - 24 May 2010 - New Scientist

Prosecutor: Why charges against Bryant were dropped - thestar.com
Ann Curry dispenses graduation advice to the wrong student body - Yahoo! News co-host of "The Today Show" on NBC (elite reporter gets college wrong, imagine how she mangles the news)
Fight with student may wreck tow firm | freep.com | Detroit Free Press - Suing an angry college student with 11,000 followers is "like dousing dry sticks with kerosene and lighting a match," Kurtz's lawyer, Dani Liblang of Birmingham, said last week (T&J Towing, Kalamazaoo, MI is a very, very, bad company)

AT&T, Verizon dominate wireless... Is it time to regulate?

052410
South Korea condemns North over torpedoing, halts trade | McClatchy ratcheted tensions to their highest level in years on the Korean peninsula, which is home to more than 25,000 U.S. troops
BBC News - Australia expels Israeli diplomat over Dubai killing Israel was behind the forging of Australian passports linked to the murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai.
BBC News - S Korea freezes trade with North over warship sinking
Israel 'tried to sell nuclear weapons' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa in the 1970s (the liar state)
Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons | World news | The Guardian Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons
Israel strongly denies report of South Africa nuclear talks (bombs? what bombs?)
Priest Accused Of Abusing Boy, Turning Home Into 'Erotic Dungeon' Surrenders To Police

McClatchy: Cartoons of the Week - "And BP ... You're doing a heck of a job" (Carville is right)
Oil reaches Louisiana shores - The Big Picture - Boston.com
More oyster beds closed to harvesting | NOLA.com (let them harvest tar-balls)
The EPA’s History of William Reilly | Emptywheel
BP pledges up to $500 million to 10-year oil spill research program | NOLA.com (amortize that)
BP Still Using Dispersant It Was Told to Drop - NYTimes.com (USPB: you can't tell us what to do)
Expert Is Confident of Gulf Oil Well’s Death - NYTimes.com (you might think they would wait 'til he actually did something)
Gulf Oil Disaster: Pelicans Coated In Crude, Marshes Heavily Damaged (Picture) With oil pushing at least 12 miles into Louisiana's marshes and two major pelican rookeries now coated in crude, Jindal said the state has begun work on chain of berms (which will surely work, see Oil Booming 101)
“It’s BP’s Oil” | Mother Jones - cops drive up and down Grand Isle beach explicitly telling tourists it is still open, just stay out of the water. There are pools of oil on the beach ... (reporters banned, Louisiana cops working for BP)
Fishermen Report Illness From BP Chemicals - Health News Story - WDSU New Orleans Toxicologist Says Chemicals Harmful, Can Lead To Death (heckuve job, BP)
BP: We Have to Use Corexit Because No One Tests for Endocrine Disruptors | Emptywheel
Enviros Go Veal Pen 2.0 with BP’s Money | FDL Action (green groups captured by big oil)
Gulf Residents Now Have Daily Oil Slick Forecast | The Seminal

Obama's War Supplemental: Recent Reports Strengthen The Case Against It two recent reports that question many of the administration's key premises and assumptions (it won't cost any money, Karzai will function, McCrystal will win, Taliban will greet them with flowers)
Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan | McClatchy "We have to start showing progress within six months on the political side or military side or that's it," the U.S. defense official said (we've been down the Friedman Unit road before, right?)
The absence of debate over war - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (battlefield Fred Hiatt loves sending other peoples' children off to die for bogus wars)
Daily Kos: A Different Result: Obama: "The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result." (which is why he keeps supporting conserva-dem losers - "Even worse, Blanche Lincoln nearly destroyed any chance Obama had at passing the legislation that he was intending on using to establish the success of his entire presidency" +the two party system)
Nikki Haley Accused Of affair With Conservative Blogger (not just for Republican men anymore)
Health Care Law Loses Support: People Can’t Stay Excited About a Plan Taking Effect in 2014 | FDL Action
Hayworth: 'In My History' U.S. Didn't Formally Declare War On Nazi Germany (video) | TPMDC (not even stupid)
Man Who Killed Arkansas Police Officers Had Anti-Government Views (video) | TPMMuckraker (teaparty terrorist? you decide)
Far-Right Extremists Gather At 'Liberty Convention' | TPMMuckraker (terrorist convention)
Mason-Dixon poll: Idaho top in Tea Party popularity | McClatchy A new poll says 63 percent of likely Republican primary voters in Idaho "generally support the agenda of the tea party movement" (just won the "dumbest state" award)

Financial Reform Bill Full of Loopholes - Newsweek.com The financial-reform bill will do its part to save the economy—by creating jobs for accountants and lawyers (Obama never looks backwards, never learns from the past)
One false move in Europe could set off global chain reaction
Wall Street Expresses Some Relief at Reform Bills - NYTimes.com
Psychoanalyzing the Relationship Between Obama and Wall Street -- New York Magazine Psychoanalyzing one of America’s most dysfunctional relationships.
Long-Term Unemployment: No Help For The 99ers (let them become libertarians)

Daily Kos: Cleaning Up After The Cold War: Hanford's Tank Waste
Study: Many Sunscreens May Be Accelerating Cancer - AOL News because they contain vitamin A or its derivatives,
Britain bans doctor who linked autism to vaccine - Health- msnbc.com

Unethical Business Practices by Associated Content (AC) | CuteWriting
common drinks sorted by their calorie to alcohol ratio
Canada Traffic | Car Accidents | Road Safety 14 died on the Canadian city's streets in a four-week period — the highest one-month total in a decade.
Army 'lost control' of colonel, still paid $400,000 - Washington Times
What next – penalising students for taking caffeine? | Geoffrey Alderman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The 'war on drugs' has been lost – it's time to rise above the moral panic and decriminalise, regulate and tax ("yellow peril" now the "brown peril")
YouTube - Valentina Lisitsa plays Rachmaninoff Etude Op. 39 No. 6 "Little Red Riding Hood"

Adopted children face anguish as birth parents stalk them on Facebook | Technology | The Observer Social networking sites being used to flout rules leading to 'intrusive and unplanned' contact
Inside AdSense: The AdSense revenue share

052310
Insurgents Attack NATO's Kandahar Base
Results of Kandahar offensive may affect future U.S. moves The Obama administration's campaign to drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan's second-largest city is a go-for-broke move that even its authors are unsure will succeed (well, Betrayus and McCrystal were pretty "sure" a few months ago when they were underminding their commander's authority)
Anwar Al Awlaki, Yemeni Cleric, Advocates Killing Americans In Al Qaeda Video (well, American's are advocating killing him)
Israeli nuke whistleblower back in jail Mordechai Vanunu (state of the truth in Israel)
Israel's navy will have its work cut out | Al Jazeera Blogs Ten thousand tons of cargo, 800 passengers, 50 nationalities, nine vessels - one aim - to break the siege on Gaza.
Warsaw Mosque | Europe Immigration | Islamophobia

Obama Repudiates Bush Doctrine In West Point Graduation Speech (VIDEO) The U.S. must shape a world order as reliant on the force of diplomacy as on the might of its military to lead (aside from the fact that Bush bankrupted the country and put two wars on Obama's charge card)
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Gates says veto defense spending bill if unwanted projects remain « -

BP oil spill: A holiday beach gets a deadly brown bath | McClatchy f the nation wants to regard Grand Isle as a laboratory to study the effects on tourism from that dark swill vomiting up from the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon, early indications look damn near fatal (yeah, now media still start to notice)
A month after oil spill began, Obama begins taking charge | McClatchy (he tried to mediate the oil first)
Peter Daou: The Great Shame: America's Pathetic Response to the Gulf Catastrophe - This isn't Katrina II, it's worse. (too busy watching Lost and drill, baby, drilling)
U.S. Will "Push" Out BP if Spill Response Falls Short - NYTimes.com (after sending a sternly-worded letter and waiting another month)
BP says oil-siphoning tube not working as well as before | al.com (neither are their lies))
Low estimate of oil spill's size could save BP millions in court | McClatchy
Louisiana coast's battle against drifting oil expected to last months, if not years | NOLA.com (just a little "sheen" what's the problem? +say goodbye to oysters)
Frustration Mounts As Oil Seeps Into Gulf Wetlands "The government should have stepped in and not just taken BP's word" (o rly)
Gulf Oil Spill: Cleaning Wetlands May Be Impossible, Scientists Say - More than 50 miles of Louisiana's delicate shoreline already have been soiled by the massive slick (might want to rethink that whole drill, baby, drill thing)
BP Chief Warns New Attempt Isn't Guaranteed to Stop Gulf Oil Spill - WSJ.com (well, whatever, we're sure it will be "minor")
Robert Gibbs Defends White House On Oil Spill Response - "we were there immediately" (and we immediately did nothing)
Daily Kos: Vampire Blues (blood on their hands goes way back)
ESOP - Oil and Democracy – More than a Cross-Country Correlation? ("if there's oil in the ground, democracy isn't above it")
Florida officials hope oil spill fears won't keep tourists away - CNN.com (no, but the goddamn oil will)
Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Djou wins special election for Congress - Bulletin - Starbulletin.com
Liberated from Libertarianism: Rand Paul Runs and Hides from... Rand Paul | CommonDreams.org
Palin: Maddow Was 'Prejudiced' In Her Rand Paul Interview (against morons like both of them)
Rand Paul skips ‘Meet the Press’ but remains show’s top topic | McClatchy
Taking Tea Partiers Seriously By Chip Berlet
NY Times ' Hoyt misses mark with defense of Blumenthal hit piece | Media Matters for America (yeah, now it really looks like it)

mystical musings and politics - How To Destabilize Countries Legally. Economic Hitman - Amy Goodman interviews John Perkins
The Road To Economic Serfdom « The Baseline Scenario Unregulated finance, the ideology of unfettered free markets, and state capture by corporate interests are what ended up undermining democracy both in North America and in Europe (contra Hayek)
Robert Reich: Closing Tax Loopholes for Billionaires
dshort.com: Federal Debt-to-GDP by President and Party
FBIC Ranks Insurers Payment Of Claims Records And Bad Faith Practices

MIT debuts fuel-saving "double bubble" aircraft | Environment | guardian.co.uk Researchers claim space-age design could cut aviation industry fuel use by up to 70 per cent

Op-Ed Columnist - Moonshine or the Kids? - NYTimes.com if the poorest families spent as much money educating their children as they do on wine, cigarettes and prostitutes, their children’s prospects would be transformed
Polygamy: A luxury too much?
BBC News - Duchess of York 'wanted cash for Prince Andrew access'
Toke of the Town - Hundreds Of 'Pot Plants' Seized By Texas Cops Aren't Marijuana
On Faith Panelists Blog: Pro-life feminism is the future - Colleen Carroll Campbell the feminism that once attracted them with its lofty goal of promoting respect for women's dignity has morphed into something antithetical to that dignity: a movement that equates a woman's liberation with her license to kill her unborn child, marginalizes people of faith (WaPo decides Feminism is icky or un-Christian or something)
After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all - News, Books - The Independent The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now

Blog matters: who is "revere"? : Effect Measure
Daily Kos :: Comments On pseudonyms and blogging Response from "revere"
Huge Infographics Design Resources: Overview, Principles, Tips and Examples | Onextrapixel
50,000 Films Is a Very Good Thing - TheWrap.com more than 3,000 films were submitted to Sundance last year
vbNPq.jpg (JPEG Image, 451x1982 pixels) (Things are Queer)

Top 10 Privacy Tweaks You Should Know About
Being smart about Web mail | Defensive Computing - CNET News
The Medium - The Death of the Open Web - NYTimes.com (just buy an Apple product, and Steve Jobs will make SURE you don't see anything you don't want to +nytimes going gated also)
Updating to Android 2.2 (Froyo) for the Impatient - Gadget News, Analyzed - Gadgetopolis
Android 101: Copy files to your storage card in Windows | Android Central
Garmin 2011 GPS Update | Haklabs.com

052210
India plane with 166 on board crashes; 8 survive - Yahoo! News
Clinton Condemns Attack on South Korean Ship - NYTimes.com (will send sternly-worded letter)
In Kandahar, the Taliban targets and assassinates those who support U.S. efforts
Final Vote Results for Roll Call 284 To authorize assistance to Israel for the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system (vote to give Israel $250M for their Star Wars Program: only Conyers, Kuchinich, Stark and Paul not members of the Knesset)
Plane crashes in India, 160 people feared dead - Yahoo! News
YouTube - Russians Capture, Raid and Destroy Pirate Ship
Video: The death penalty on trial | Law | guardian.co.uk

Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Few issues highlight Barack Obama's extreme hypocrisy the way that Bagram does
Letter from Washington: The Hidden Power : The New Yorker The legal mind behind the White House’s war on terror (Obama adopts the David S Addington approach: “He doesn’t care about the Constitution.”)

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible, scientists say | NOLA.com (nothing to see here, drill, baby, drill +new plan: set Lousiana on fire)
Column One: Engineering a solution to the oil spill - latimes.com
Gulf Oil Spill Size: How Big Is It? Day by day, the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is adding up to mind-boggling numbers. (Obama still sitting on his business-friendly hands) /a>
James Carville Takes On Obama On Oil Spill: He's 'Risking Everything' With 'Go Along With BP Strategy' (workin' hard to make it his very own Katrina) (Chris Matthews argued during a "Tonight Show" appearance that the President was "acting a little like a Vatican Observer.")
Gulf oil spill: Oil washes ashore on Grand Isle, La. - latimes.com Dark ooze washes ashore in the tourist town of Grand Isle, La., the first direct hit on a populated shoreline (but still won't be real to the media)
Month After Oil Spill, Why Is BP Still In Charge? (they own the Gulf? they threatened to arrest Obama?)
Gulf Oil Spill Presidential Commission Named By Obama ("expert" ex-politicians, will meet sometime next year)
Weekly Address: New Oil Commission, More Drilling, and the Definition of Insanity | The Seminal
BP is sticking with its dispersant choice | NOLA.com (the deadly one made by them; tells EPA to fuck off or BP will have them arrested)
Illegal aliens helping with oil spill booms? Panhandle authorities make arrests | al.com ("I would hope there'd be enough people locally to work and do the same thing people from out of state are doing," but there weren't you know, because it's all very toxic)
At worst, oil spewed already could fill 102 gyms - Yahoo! News
Op-Ed Columnist - More Than Just an Oil Spill - NYTimes.com The response of the Obama administration and the general public to this latest outrage at the hands of a giant, politically connected corporation has been embarrassingly tepid (Americans don't give a shit and too stupid to connect the dots)
YouTube - BP Fails Booming School 101 Gulf Oil Spill
Daily Kos: Fishgrease: DKos Booming School
Daily Kos: State of the Nation Fishgrease: DKos Booming School
Mac McClelland on Twitter
"Drill, Baby, Drill" Cake Apology: Oil Regulator Says Pro-Drilling Dessert Was Wrong (captive much?)
BP’s Made-Up Claims Make the Coast Guard and NOAA Look Incompetent | The Seminal (just branches of BP anyway)

Rove claims Bush ‘never’ let aides question Dems’ patriotism or motives | Raw Story (now that's how you lie)
Daily Kos: Russell Pearce vs. the Constitution (Russell Pearce: too exteme for Arizona?)
Author of Arizona immigration law wants to end birthright citizenship - Yahoo! News (Arizona: too extreme for America?)
Matthew Yglesias » What If They Gave a Terrorist Attack And Nobody Noticed? (and the bomb actually exploded)
Man Who Shot Police Had Antigovernment Views - NYTimes.com (sounds like a teabagger, doesn't it?)
Hullabaloo: Should We Let Al Qaeda Pilot Our Jets? (then why would we let Republicans try to run the country?)
'Over the Cliff' warmup: The Top Ten Provably Untrue Things Tea Partiers Believe | Crooks and Liars
t r u t h o u t | Republicans and the Tea Party of No - . And it’s fighting a Democratic White House and Party that stand for nothing, which is why being the “Party of No” will continue to be a winning strategy for Republicans. (*) (+so much lost opportunity by our "centrist" corporatist Pres)
The lesson of Rand Paul: libertarianism is juvenile - Rand Paul | Kentucky Senate Republican, Ron Paul's Son - Salon.com
Explaining the Rand Paul Disaster - Politics - The Atlantic the "diminished local press corps" theory of why Paul was skating by (no press left in KY; Maddow was first real journalist he had ever talked to)
What A Week: Rand Paul Takes The National Stage | TPMDC The week that began with Paul triumphantly bursting out onto the national stage ended with him slinking away from it.
Ron Paul Appeared On Meet The Press In '07 And Spoke Out Against Civil Rights Act (video) | TPMD (the Paul Family: too extreme for America?) C
Bill Maher Describes Rand Paul: It's As If Sarah Palin Made It Through Med School (video) "the shit doesn't fall far from the bat." (ooh, good one)
Daily Kos: Rand Paul's terminal case of foot-in-mouth (Rand Paul: too extreme for Kentucky? Kentucky: too exteme for America?)
Taking the Tea Party seriously - Joan Walsh - Salon.com Stop name-calling, admirers ask, and focus on what the movement wants to do! That's happening, and it isn't pretty (they really don't know what they want to do)
Andy Borowitz: Poll: Rand Paul Surges Ahead of Palin Among Voters Who Describe Themselves as Morons

Analysis: Markets Won't Wait For EU On Debt
Corporate PACs betting on Republicans to regain control of Congress
Prosecutors Said to Drop Probe of Ex-AIG Executive - Bloomberg.com (they always do)
Perks unchecked for some Wall Street CEOs
Will Wall Street Reform Negotiators Publicly Weaken Derivative-Trading Regulations? (video) | TPMDC (yes: SATSQ)

Transition to adulthood takes longer than ever - chicagotribune.com For Millennials, traditional markers of adulthood prove elusive - In 1960, 77 percent of women and 65 percent of men had acquired certain traditional markers of maturity by age 30: leaving home, completing school, full-time employment, marriage and family. In 2005, the figure had plummeted to 27 and 39 percent
Checking in on Saturn - The Big Picture - Boston.com
White-Light Solar Flares Finally Explained | Wired Science | caused by the sun’s acceleration of electrons to speeds greater than half the speed of light.
Methanol versus Ethanol: Technical Merits and Political Favoritism
Mark Hyman, MD: Vitamin D: Why You Are Probably NOT Getting Enough and How That Makes You Sick

The Open Gov Initiative: Enabling Techies to Solve Government Problems
100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media In the Classroom | Online Universities
50 Best Blogs for Genealogy Geeks | Online Universities
dwfiction: A Partial Map of Your TARDIS (Subject to Change)
Space Shuttle: The Time-Lapse Movie | Space Exploration | Air & Space Magazine
Texas Cooks the Textbooks - Newsweek.com - "Explain how Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict." Now that's not at all a loaded statement, is it? (dumbfucks)
Texas schools to teach kids that ’separation of church and state’ not in Constitution | Raw Story
Texas board approves social studies standards that perceived liberal bias minimize the separation of church and state and say that America is not a democracy but a "constitutional republic." "a Christian land governed by Christian principles." (Republicans hate democracy: not right for America?)
The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand - NYTimes.com
We're Better Than That, Too!!!! w/ Dale Peterson from Almost Twins, Jake, and FOD Team - Video
Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System. - By Sara Mosle - Slate Magazine Diane Ravitch shares a timely lesson: We don't (yet) know how to save schools.

how metafilter saved two russian women from potential human trafficking the woman behind the rescue speaks out - The Human Condition Blog - Newsweek.com
MetaFilter Saved My Pals From Sex Traffickers—Exclusive Interview | Mother Jones
The Internet Rescues Two Russians From Sex Slavery
how metafilter saved two russian women from potential human trafficking the woman behind the rescue speaks out - The Human Condition Blog - Newsweek.com

YouTube - Man faces jail for recording out of control cop
Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard | Mother Jones
YouTube - We are Better than That!!!!!
We're Better Than That, Too!!!! w/ Dale Peterson from Almost Twins, Jake, and FOD Team - Video
YouTube - Dan Fanelli Ad

Penn AG Withdraws Twitter Subpoena | TPMMuckraker (asshole Republican AG slinks away)
IsoHunt Forced to Shut Down in the US | TorrentFreak
How To Create An Options Page For Your Wordpress Theme | Graphic and Web Design Blog
How To: Try Android Froyo On Your Computer
Find The Content That Matters To You On Twitter [Part 1]

052110
Twitter’s role in Bangkok conflict unprecedented - The Globe and Mail

BP concedes more oil than estimated flowing into the Gulf | al.com (lying liars, we've known this for a month, BP's Coast Guard won't let Gov scientists measure spill)
Marsh Island oil report confirmed | NOLA.com (media won't think it's real until Miami is under two feet of oil)
Think Progress » Paul Calls White House Pressure On BP ‘Un-American,’ Says That ‘Sometimes Accidents Happen’ (Rand Paul: Not Right For America)
In Spill’s Aftermath, Conflict of Interest Worries - NYTimes.com But the laboratory that officials have chosen to process virtually all of the samples is part of an oil and gas services company in Texas that counts oil firms, including BP, among its biggest clients (huge conflict of interest, but BP's Coast Guard won't let real scientists test oil)
Grand Isle closes beaches, station reports | NOLA.com
A month in, outrage over Gulf oil spill grows | al.com (despite best efforts of media and welfare-queen states_
Gulf Oil Spill: Obama Orders BP To Give Daily Updates On Cleanup (a month late and 10 billion short)
Gulf Oil Spill: Vast Majority Of Pollution Could Lurk Below Surface For Months Or Years
Grand Isle Louisiana Beach Closed After Thick Oil Washes Ashore (globs resembling "melted chocolate")
Congress’ 30-Day Deadline for Rubber-Stamping Exploration Plans | Emptywheel
Debacle of BP’s Live Feed of Pipe a Microcosm for this Whole Clusterf@#k | The Seminal (they can't even put video on the web)

Federal Appeals Court Bars Bagram Detainees From Civilian Trials
GOP Wants War Funds Paid For But Not With Tax Hikes war-funding bill must be paid for with cuts in spending (after putting two wars on Obama's credit card)

Rep. Alan Grayson: The War Is Making You Poor Act
PostPartisan - On Civil Rights Act, no cheers for Rand Paul (Rand Paul: Republican radicalism setting America back 150 years)
Beck preaches the "good news" that a "blaze is coming" that will "burn everything down" | Media Matters for America
How Rand Paul became the Tea Party's Obama - Rand Paul | Kentucky Senate Republican, Ron Paul's Son - Salon.com His father's libertarian army and Rush Limbaugh's "Dittoheads" aren't natural allies. But Rand Paul has united them (Rand Paul: too extreme for America?)
Matthew Yglesias » Rand Paul Only Likes the Easy Part of Freedom
Is Rand Paul Good or Bad for Republicans? Rand Paul Leads GOP Kentucky Senate Race as Outsider - time (oh, he's very, very good)
Libertarians On Paul's Civil Rights Stance: 'Very Reasonable' | TPMDC
msnbc.com: How are we going to allow people to be treated in America? (+boy is Eric Cantor creepy)

Simon Johnson: Focus on This: Merkley-Levin Did Not Get a Vote (real reform blocked by not real American Republicans)
Thank You, Lloyd Blankfein - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com thanks to a changed climate. Wall Street in general, and Goldman in particular, provided scandals at just the right time. Thank you, Lloyd Blankfein.
Financial Reform Bills Don't Do Enough To Prevent Another Financial Collapse, Says Grayson On 'Ratigan' (video)
Op-Ed Columnist - Lost Decade Looming? - NYTimes.com we may be heading for a Japan-style lost decade, trapped in a prolonged era of high unemployment and slow growth (keeping interest rates low more important than employing people, you know)
Wall Street Power Play: Bankers In Bizarre Showdown With Auto Dealers
I write to you from a disgraced profession « Real-World Economics Review Blog (economics is corrupt)
Euro’s slide may give U.S. more rope to hang itself | Analysis & Opinion |

Living in denial: Unleashing a lie - opinion - 21 May 2010 - New Scientist (how Republicans work)
Newborn Babies Learn While They’re Asleep | 80beats | Discover Magazine
Bering in Mind: Scientists say free will probably doesn't exist, but urge: "Don't stop believing!" - : if a deterministic understanding of human behavior encourages antisocial behavior, how can we scientists justify communicating our deterministic research findings?
New pyramid discovered in Peru linked to ancient copper industry - News, Archaeology - The Independent
Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Institutionalized for Asperger’s | Threat Level | Wired.com

JetBlue Pilot's Gun Taken From Him By Police There are reportedly 10,000 pilots carrying handguns under the program (no one could have predicted that would happen)
Texas Board Of Education Tried To Keep Word 'Slave' Out Of 'Slave Trade' (and other really stupid Republican tricks)
Plotting to Erase Hitler From History - NYTimes.com - The resulting novel is both shockingly tasteless and deeply offensive.
Film - Jean-Luc Godard’s Film, but Not Himself, at Cannes - NYTimes.com
BBC News - Canada 'marijuana seed dealer' extradited to US My husband committed a crime punishable by only a $200 fine in Canada, yet this Conservative government is sending him to serve up to 25 years in US jail,"
Why The Hills’ Opening Credits Are Both Creepy and Cruel -- Vulture
Rape accused to be given anonymity - Telegraph the same anonymity rights as their alleged victims under a major change in the law.
Chief: Officers’ actions appropriate | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri monthslong internal investigation into the raid that resulted in the shooting of two dogs, one fatally, and the discovery of a misdemeanor amount of marijuana. (there's nothing they can do that would be "inappropriate")

Ogle Earth: China officially announces crackdown on maps, annotations
Google Android 2.2: Questions and Answers - PCWorld
Android 2.2 Froyo: everything you ever wanted to know -- Engadget
Google TV: everything you ever wanted to know -- Engadget
Google Is Leapfrogging Apple
louisgray.com: While Apple Slept On Their Hobby, Google Executed
Google Slams Apple At Google I/O (video) a "Draconian future, a future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be our only choice." Then he shows a poster of 1984, with the title, "Not The Future We Want."
US Court: RapidShare Not Guilty of Copyright Infringement | TorrentFreak
AMD: Marketing the Unmarketable
WARNING: Facebook Clickjacking Attack Spreading Through News Feed
Facebook and Others Caught Sending User Data to Advertisers
Deleting your Facebook account (FAQ) | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
My Contrarian Stance on Facebook and Privacy - O'Reilly Radar
MediaPost Publications How Facebook Community Pages Hurt Brands 05/21/2010

052010
BBC News - 'North Korean torpedo' sank South's navy ship - report (obviously, now what?)
NKorea Warns Of War If Punished For Ship Sinking - cbs5.com (yeah, we sank it, nyaa, nyaa)
2Bangkok.com - Almost like being there
Crackdown in Bangkok - The Big Picture - Boston.com
BBC News - Nick Clegg pledges biggest political reforms since 1832 "transform our politics so the state has far less control over you, and you have far more control over the state" (pushback against cop-state UK, finally)
Two Chinese Girls Rescued From Secret Dungeon
The fate of a generation of workers: Foxconn undercover fully translated (update: videos added) -- Engadget

Republicans Put Taxpayers ‘On Hook’ for Oil Damage, Obama Says - BusinessWeek
RSMAS/MPO Coastal and Shelf Modeling
ROFFS™ Deepwater Horizon Rig oil spill monitoring
Atlantic coast now under threat as current spreads Gulf oil slick | Environment | The Guardian Scale of disaster apparent as no-fishing zone doubles and controversial dispersant is used
Fmr. EPA Investigator Scott West: US Has Told BP "It Can Do Whatever It Wants and Won't Be Held Accountable" Fmr. EPA Investigator Scott West: US Has Told BP "It Can Do Whatever It Wants and Won’t Be Held Accountable" (Obama pretty two-faced on this)
While BP’s Oil Gushes, Company Keeps Information to a Trickle - ProPublica (Obama can invade Afganistan, the Gulf is a sovereign state run by BP)
A Drop of Rain » Blog Archive » Rumor Schlumberger Exits Deep Horizon Hours Before Blowout (rumor from last week surfaces, see gcaptain below)
BP and Coast Guard Blocking Media from Public Beaches (Coast Guard an arm of BP now)
Coast Guard Now Enforcing BP's Oil Spill Viewing Rules
Scientists Fault U.S. Response in Assessing Gulf Oil Spill - NYTimes.com prominent oceanographers accusing the government of failing to conduct an adequate scientific analysis of the damage and of allowing BP to obscure the spill’s true scope (cause BP owns the Gulf)
Magnolia Springs prepares for approach of oil slick | al.com one of Mobile Bay's most sensitive and important ecosystems and efforts are under way to prevent such damage (come on down, the beaches are fine)
Gulf Oil Spill: Government Remains Blind To Underwater Oil Hazard "The fact that NOAA has missed the ball catastrophically on the tracking and effects monitoring of this spill is inexcusable,"
Gulf Oil Spill: Oil Has Entered Loop Current, Officials Say
Gulf Oil Spill: Louisiana Wetlands Blanketed With BP Crude (video) - Jindal: "The day that we've been fearing is upon us today" (we feared it so much we drill, baby, drilled)
Senator Demands Info From Transocean On 'I'm Not Injured' Forms Signed By Workers | TPMMuckraker stating that they were not injured and they were not witnesses to what happened (did the Coast Guard force them to sign?)
Obama Ally Accuses GOP Of Doing Big Oil's Bidding After Gulf Spill (video)
Op-Ed Columnist - Obama and the Oil Spill - NYTimes.com “The Obama End to Oil Addiction Act” — or are you going squander your 9/11, too?
Florida State scientist: NOAA ignores spill findings | Deepwater Horizon | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Excerpts from Saro-Wiwa on Shell in Ogoni
Post Carbon: EPA demands less-toxic dispersant - Juliet Eilperin (hear that? "less")
Fishermen Report Illness From BP Chemicals - Health News Story - WDSU New Orleans Toxicologist Says Chemicals Harmful, Can Lead To Death
Versita Publications - Journal Article Health complaints among subjects involved in oil cleanup operations during oil spillage from a Greek tanker "Tasman Spirit"
Acute Health Effects of Hebei Spirit Oil Spill : Epidemiology

Exclusive: President Obama To Replace Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair - Political Punch
Rand Paul On 'Maddow' Defends Criticism Of Civil Rights Act, Says He Would Have Worked To Change Bill (video) (go Kentucky!)
Rachel Maddow demolishes Rand Paul - Joan Walsh - Salon.com
Rand Paul and His 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Friend | Mother Jones (look, this really is good news for Dems: the distillation of the pure radical teabagger fringe: "Rand Paul: not right for Kentucky, or anywhere else")
Matthew Yglesias » Freedom as White Supremacy (Reason Mag and the glibitarians love him)
REVERSAL: Paul Now Backs Ban On Discrimination By Businesses | TPMDC (that was quick)
FLASHBACK: Paul Campaign Spokesman Resigned Over Racism On Myspace Page | TPMMuckraker (this will only get better)
Little Girl Who Challenged First Lady Is Right: Obama Is Deporting More Immigrants Than Ever (more Bush than the old Bush)
Why do voters hate incumbents? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
My Way News - Ex-Obama pastor: 'Obama threw me under the bus' The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press that he is "toxic" to the Obama administration and that the president "threw me under the bus."
General Manager's Statement Regarding LADWP Power Generation Assets in Arizona
Penn. AG Subpoenas Twitter: A Move To Silence Critics? | TPMMuckraker (it's now a crime to criticize Republicans)
updated: Tom Corbett's stunning abuse of power | Philly | 05/20/2010
Corbett subpoenas Twitter for critics' names | Philly | 05/20/2010 (fallout)
Equating sexual orientation with "sex life" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
1A02h.jpg - the Foxification of CNN: "Miss USA: Muslim trailblazer? Or spy? (or drone-worthy terrorist?)
ATMs a mystery to senator - Omaha.com (Ben Nelson, D,Neanderthal, has never used an ATM but knows about "holograms")

Meet the Facts : Meet the Press Needs Fact Checking (Meet the Press: facts are irrelevant)
PolitiFact | The latest statements we've reviewed
About PoliGraph | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ

Stocks dive, Dow off 376 on world economic worries - Yahoo! Finance
Senate Clears Way For Final Passage Of Financial Regulation Bill (Scotty "Cosmo" Brown back on board, with Collins and Queen Olympia)
Ezra Klein - Reid loses cloture vote on financial regulation
New Claims Shoot Higher as Jobless Problem Persists - CNBC
"we're seeing the end of a global free market" says ian bremmer: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance
Obama's HAMP and Goldman's Abacus: Doomed to Fail? | Mother Jones (no, no: "designed to fail")

Craig Venter creates synthetic life form | Science | The Guardian
BBC News - 'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists
Quantum teleportation achieved over ten miles of free space
Healthy types enjoy a daily tipple - Telegraph Drinkers who enjoy two or three glasses of wine a day are healthier than teetotallers, according to a study of 150,000 people.
Abdominal fat at middle age associated with greater risk of dementia: Obesity linked to lower total brain volume
Opinion: Health Risks of Bisphenol A Are Vastly Exaggerated - AOL News
Language Log » Mapping the Demographics of American English with Twitter
Teens Don’t Tweet; Twitter’s Growth Not Fueled By Youth | Nielsen Wire
Is This Your Brain On God? : NPR More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives.

Nun Excommunicated For Allowing Abortion : NPR she had "right heart failure," and her doctors told her that if she continued with the pregnancy, her risk of mortality was "close to 100 percent." (the priorities of the Catholic Church: protect pedophile priests, let women die)
YouTube - Police Brutality: Cop Kills Dog, Tries To Buy Owner's Silence!
Look at Me! : CJR (<-- readme +"The Nothing-Based Economy")
Teacher suspended for President Obama assassination lesson | Richard Adams | World news | guardian.co.uk An Alabama teacher has been suspended after a geometry lesson on the best angles to assassinate President Obama (what they do in Alabama)

Michael Geist - National Post Reports "Heavy Handed" Copyright Law Coming Next Week
Ralph de la Vega 'just laughs' when asked about AT&T iPhone exclusivity expiration date, says most customers will stay -- Engadget
EFF Seeks Attorneys to Help Alleged Movie Downloaders | Electronic Frontier Foundation The U.S. Copyright Group has quietly targeted 50,000 Bit Torrent users for legal action i
8 Websites You Need to Stop Building - The Oatmeal
Fanboy! The Strange True Story of the Tech World's Favorite Put-Down.
Australian Wikileak founder's passport confiscated
Theora Founder: WebM Project is ‘Wonderful’
Three Cool Tools for Restoring Your Facebook Privacy - PCWorld
Firefox to Chrome: We’ll See Your 70 Million Users And Raise You 300 Million
Font Preview - Google Font Directory

051910
Taliban Attacks Key U.S. Base In Afghanistan
Angela Merkel: Protecting The Euro A 'Historic Task'
Bangkok Burns After Thai Army Launches Deadly Assault On Protesters
5 Men With Knives Slash College Students In Latest China School Attack
Clegg makes his bid for a place in history - UK Politics, UK - The Independent
BBC News - Non-crew in cockpit in Polish president's plane crash
BBC News - Pakistan court bans Facebook in row over prophet The order came when a petition was filed after the site held a competition featuring caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (the 20/80 rule)
Why We're Having an Everybody Draw Mohammed Contest on Thursday May 20 - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine (Reason's server overwhelmed with gay porno, shuts down their contest)
Obama's 'Proven' SM-3 Missile Interceptor May Only Succeed 20 Percent of the Time, Say Physicists | Popular Science (listened to his generals)

Bailouts Unlimited: Republicans Demand Corporate Welfare for Oil Companies | FDL Action ($75M "cap" = $10Bn bailout +Inhofe/Murkowski))
BP told feds it could handle oil spill 60 times larger than Deepwater Horizon | al.com (gee, they were lying, right?)
Heavy Sludge Oozes into Marshes of Louisiana - CBS News When CBS News tried to reach the beach, covered in oil, a boat of BP contractors with two Coast Guard officers on board told us to turn around under threat of arrest (arrest reporters? shows who's in charge +why you aren't going to see pictures)
Kevin Grandia: Shocking NASA Image: Never-Seen-Before Southeast Oil Slick Arm (BP told Coast Guard to arrest the satellite)