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031110
Official dogma: Iraq War a success - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The New York Times' Tom Friedman, who did as much as any single individual to persuade large numbers of Democrats and "moderates" to support the invasion of Iraq
7.2-Magnitude Quake Hits Chile During Inauguration
Magnitude 6.9 - Libertador O Higgins, Chile
Use Cash And Enjoy Privacy? You’re A Terrorist Government ad running on British radio station tells public to report people who close their curtains as potential suicide bombers

Carville/Greenberg strategists and national security - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com we now have Obama trying to explain why civilian trials and closing GITMO are so necessary and just at exactly the same time he sets up military commissions and systems of indefinite detention ... It's not nuanced, smart or "pragmatic"; it's craven, unprincipled, cynical and weak (no moral center)
How to Win the War of Ideas | Foreign Policy What the Obama administration needs to understand about Muslims, extremism, and America's image.
John Yoo's Email Fail | Mother Jones
Liz Cheney: Taking flak from the right as well as the left / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
Editorial - A Political Attack on Guantánamo Lawyers - NYTimes.com It did not take long for the lawyers to become a conservative target, branded the “Gitmo 9” by a group called Keep America Safe, run by Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, and William Kristol
Thiessen brings "shameful" attacks on DOJ lawyers to Fox | Media Matters for America ("Mob lawyers")
Like Mother like Daughter: Lynne and Liz | Crooks and Liars (psychotic evil disorder runs in the family)
Liz Cheney allies: Critics are 'prissy' - Andy Barr - politico.com (prissy people don't torture and murder +attracting attention is the highest value)
msnbc.com: Conservatives against Liz Cheney?
Law.com - Big Law Defends Guantanamo Lawyers - of the 50 largest firms in the United States, at least 34 have either represented detainees or filed amicus briefs in support of detainees (the Al-Qaeda 34)

The Public Option's Last Stand: A Matter Of Will, Not Votes (and there never was a will)
How Expensive Will The Obama Health Care Plan Really Be? - Newsweek.com The bogus Republican claim that Obamacare is a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy (they lie, people die)
Ezra Klein - The day bipartisanship died - Nancy Pelosi kept pressing the White House to stop dealing with the Republicans. “It’s never going to happen,” a Democratic official quoted her as saying. “Grassley’s just going to wait you out and then pull the rug out from under you.” (Obama: naive, inexperienced or just dumb?)
House bans earmarks to for-profit companies - washingtonpost.com Facing an election-year backlash over runaway spending and ethics scandals
E-Mail Messages Are Disclosed in Ensign’s Ethics Case - NYTimes.com Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign’s efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles.
The Washington Monthly - Where's Our Ensign Frenzy?.... Matt Yglesias highlights an important double standard: "sex scandals aren't interesting when they involve Republicans." - It's quite a racket, which the media encourages by playing along.
Jon Stewart On Beck's Massa Interview: Why The Night 'Wasn't A Total Loss' (video)
Think Progress » TurboTax drops Glenn Beck, whose show has gone without ads for more than a month in the UK.

Fifty-One Herbert Hoovers - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com (David Broder: "an old retired guys whose written a few columns" +stupid)
The World's Billionaires - Forbes.com
Commercial Real Estate Owners Beginning To Walk Away From Properties - WSJ.com (but ... the morality of it all!)
Jobless Claims Drop But Employment Picture Still Murky - CNBC
Dodd Financial Regulation Bill: Bipartisan Talks Failed, Senator Plans To Introduce His Own Bill (designed to do nothing)
U.S. Foreclosure Filings Increase at Slowest Pace in Four Years - BusinessWeek
Op-Ed Contributors - A Last Chance for the World Trade Center to Rise Again - NYTimes.com he historic heart of our city? ("historic" = since 1971, "heart" = somewhere around your leg)
Simon Johnson: The Speech For Which We Have Been Waiting On Thursday, Senator Ted Kaufman (D., DE) is due to deliver a strong blow to the overly powerful and unproductively mighty within our financial sector.
Dodd Financial Regulation Bill: Bipartisan Talks Failed, Senator Plans To Introduce His Own Bill (bipartisan talks failed? who could have predicted?)
Lehman Bankruptcy Report: Top Officials Manipulated Balance Sheets, JPMorgan And Citi Contributed To Collapse

How the Chile Earthquake Went Nuclear : Discovery News
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: New Charging Method Could Slash Battery Recharge Times
Brain Scans Depict Gulf War Syndrome Damage | Wired Science | Wired.com (you know, the syndrome that didn't exist)
Einstein's Gravity Confirmed on a Cosmic Scale - Proof of dark matter and dark energy, study says
Physicists build basic quantum computing circuit
CJO - Abstract - Oral sensitivity to fatty acids, food consumption and BMI in human subjects
So Fat, You Can Taste It - Slashfood

Under fire, judge clarifies ruling criticizing death penalty | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle Despite criticism, Fine maintains innocent people have been executed (in Texas? Bush justice? no, never)
Gay rights enter debate over Northrop Grumman's HQ pick | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
Church Abuse Scandals 'Creeping Ever Closer' To The Pope (world's largest pedophile ring)
Mississippi Prom Canceled After Lesbian Date Request
Kansas becomes first state to ban K2 - Kansas City News - Plog
French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment - Telegraph A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations
In a Tampa Bay area hospice, the mystery of a man with no identity - St. Petersburg Times
Norrie first registered transgender
Comic Book Legends Revealed #242 - Ira Glass, worst boyfriend evar)
Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead - Magazine - The Atlantic
Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead - NYTimes.com

27% of Twitter users are active - is it becoming news feed? - Mar. 10, 2010 a whopping 73% of Twitter accounts have tweeted fewer than 10 times
Intel's Core i7-980X Extreme Edition 'Gulftown' review roundup -- Engadget
Hardmac.com : Le "Macbidouille" in English - RSA 1024-bits Key Encryption Cracked!
How to install Windows XP over Windows 7 in a dual boot ?
AppleInsider | Apple's iPhone 4.0 software to deliver multitasking support - One of the most requested features for the iPhone, multitasking has been falsely rumored to arrive on Apple's handset numerous times (1, 2, 3) over the last year, but never came to be. (you don't need no steenking multitasking)

031010
India's upper house passes pro-women bill - CNN.com India's upper house of parliament has passed a historic bill aimed at reserving one-third of seats for women in federal and state legislatures.
Sex allegations against rabbi roil Israel's Orthodox community - Los Angeles Times - accused by a nongovernmental religious organization of sexually exploiting male students
Jerusalem Journal - Palestinian Family’s Eviction Stirs Old Ghosts in a Contested City - NYTimes.com Having been removed in favor of Israeli nationalist Jews (sound familiar?)
Settlers destroy natural spring used by Palestinians for farming near Salfit | International Solidarity Movement
Holland proposes giving over-70s who 'consider their lives complete' the right to die | Mail Online
Op-Ed Columnist - It’s Up to Iraqis Now. Good Luck. - NYTimes.com (from Mr Suck.On.This.)
Yemen | Radical Islam | Terrorism
Swedish media reprint cartoon that inspired alleged murder plot - Times Online (that worked out really well)

Wash. Post claims White House is "demoniz[ing]" insurance industry by accurately portraying industry's actions | Media Matters for America (is there any elite white-guy interest WaPo won't leap to lie about? ... no)
Chief justice: Obama criticism 'troubling' - First Read - msnbc.com (SOTU: they are above criticism, because ... well, because)
Harry Reid: Filibuster Rules 'Likely' To Change
Corporate Earmark Ban: House Dems Plan To Cut Earmarks From Spending Bills
All The Most Ridiculous Parts Of The Eric Massa/Glenn Beck Interview In Under One Minute (VIDEO)
That’s not going to help you get into Costa Rica | Firedoglake David Paterson will become the massa…who gets to appoint whoever gets to take Massa’s place. So, for the first time in his life, Paterson’s gonna be a massa. Interesting, interesting. (stay KKKlassy, Rushbo)
Minority births on track to outnumber white births - Yahoo! News (why the Republican racist strategy is doomed)
Jon Stewart Butts Heads with Former Bush Speechwriter - Jon Stewart - Gawker.TV
Paul Ryan's Plan to Tax You More | Mother Jones (Republicans at work)
Matthew Yglesias » The Ryan Tax Plan: Higher Taxes for 90% of Americans, Less Revenue for the Government (profit!)
Fox, Inquirer allow Santorum to attack health care reform without disclosing he works for health care industry | Media Matters for America (they always do)
Meg Whitman Campaign Ejects Reporters For Asking Questions (video) | TPMDC (eMeg meltdown)
Right-wing media eagerly spread absurd claim that Obama plans to "ban sport fishing" | Media Matters for America (you'll pry my fishing rod from my cold, dead hands)
Hullabaloo: Wingnut Mail Call (file under projection and insanity)

Simon Johnson on the Doom Cycle (MMBM) on Vimeo (we're doomed)
Frank wants reform conference televised on C-SPAN -- Corker blocks payday lender oversight -- Banks to pay fee for 'resolution authority' -- BofA dropping overdraft fees
Why Treasury doesn’t like principal write-downs | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters ("tweaks" but no relief: eat it, suckas!)
Inside Man | The New Republic | Paulson: a sophisticated web of misdirection (trying to save a reputation that can't be saved - see Cheney and Rove)
Continental CEO will cancel flights before fines - Yahoo! News

Vitamin D crucial to activating immune defenses
Earthquake Facts and Statistics
Scientists tease DNA from eggshell of extinct birds - iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird
YouTube - Ant Superhighway
Porn: Good for us? - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences Scientific examination of the subject has found that as the use of porn increases, the rate of sex crimes goes down.
BBC News - Nanometre 'fuses' for high-performance batteries

Salt Assault! Lawmaker Wants Salt Banned From Restaurants - Gothamist
[Huffington Post removed article Jesse Ventura] Title: For Some, the Search for What Really Happened on 9/11 Isn't Over | 911Blogger.com
Joe. My. God.: Utah's Final Solution: Patriot Group Announces Bill To Force All Homosexuals Out Of The State, Arrest Fugitives
Phony Utah anti-gay resolution causes stir - ABC 4.com - Salt Lake City, Utah News (Yes Men)
Ombudsman Blog - Readers react to photo of two men kissing - There was a time, after court-ordered integration, when readers complained about front-page photos of blacks mixing with whites. Today, photo images of same-sex couples capture the same reality of societal change.
Daily Kos: Today begins the end of Sheriff Arpaio in Arizona Update 3 (goin' down)
Who Cheats? Docs and Stay at Home Moms! - Love + Sex on Shine (and docs)
Home Fires: Cut the War Film Some Slack - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Jeffersonville middle school student suspended for touching pill - WAVE 3 TV Louisville, KY | Martin Bell, COO of Greater Clark County Schools (famous on the internets for all eternity for being an idiot and an unthinking jerk)
Why Academic Tony Judt’s Dazzling, Cantankerous Brain Is One of This City’s Great Treasures -- New York Magazine
The Price Is Creepy: Bob Barker's Sexual Harassment Greatest Hits (video)

Hal Varian Is Right: Newspapers Need to Engage – GigaOM
HTML5 – New Old Semantics | Template Monster Blog
Woot! Bike There Feature Added to Google Maps! (Video) : TreeHugger
Consumers found vulnerable to e-mail threats - SFGate
Google launches app store | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Google Apps Marketplace: Instantly Connect Your App To 25 Million Users, Profit.
Free wireless broadband plan is déjà vu all over again

030910
Biden Condemns Israel's Approval Of Plan To Build New Settlements In East Jerusalem (that was a no-no)
Village Massacres Shake Uneasy Nigeria - WSJ.com
BBC News - Lost Jewish tribe 'found in Zimbabwe'

Waterboarding for dummies - Torture - Salon.com Internal CIA documents reveal a meticulous protocol that was far more brutal than Dick Cheney's "dunk in the water"
In newest column, Wash. Post 's Thiessen defends witch hunt against DOJ lawyers | Media Matters for America (Dept. of Jihad: Fred Hiatt is a terrible person and WaPo deserves to die)
High standards at The Washington Post - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Marc Thiessen catapulted himself from obscure, low-level Bush speechwriter into regular Washington Post columnist, joining fellow torture defenders Charles Krauthammer and Bill Kristol - "Attorney General Eric Holder hired former al-Qaeda lawyers to serve in the Justice Department"
Ken Starr: Liz Cheney Wrong For Attacking Department Of Justice Attorneys (video) (he might want to have a word with Fred Hiatt, too)
Obama sabotages himself with fake "pragmatism" - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com the Obama White House is hamstrung by its own embrace of the Bush/Cheney Terrorism template in advocating for its own policies (+Stanley Fish: "Bush’s policies came to seem less obviously reprehensible as the Obama administration drifted into embracing watered-down versions of many of them.")
Senate Democrats Unwilling To Fight Widely-Opposed GOP Nominee To Legal Services Corporation (more bi-partisanship idiocy)
Bart Stupak, Dem Threatening To Kill Health Care Bill Over Abortion, Says Deal Looks Likely (Obama to cave yet again)
Insurance Industry's Final Ad Blitz: Don't Blame Us For Your High Costs
Glenn Beck Urges Listeners to Leave Churches That Preach Social Justice -- Politics Daily "social justice," the term many Christian churches use to describe their efforts to address poverty and human rights, is a "code word" for communism and Nazism (lies for stupid people)
Rage on the Right | Southern Poverty Law Center The Year in Hate and Extremism (see Glenn Beck)
Terror From the Right | Southern Poverty Law Center ("tax protestors")
Inside the world of Obama's secret-service bodyguards | World news | The Guardian - nine murders by individuals who have white supremacist, xenophobic or antisemitic leanings since the inauguration of Obama.
Once Upon a Time...: Our Saint of Buckley: Derided, Defiled and Condemned - "is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes -- the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race" (William F Buckley, white supremecist and rightwing terrorist)
Karl Rove Memoir: The 13 Must-Read Passages From 'Courage And Consequence'

Simon Johnson: Way Too Big to Save
Op-Ed Columnist - The Source of Obama’s Trouble - NYTimes.com (no jobs, no focus, no leadership)
Number Of U.S. Millionaires Soared In 2009: Spectrem Group The number of U.S. households making $1 million or more grew 16 percent last yea

Monbiot.com » The Unpersuadables In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts - The attack on climate scientists is now widening to an all-out war on science (certainly not Republicans)
The trouble with trusting complex science | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian There is no simple way to battle public hostility to climate research. As the psychologists show, facts barely sway us anyway
Fixing the communications failure : Article : Nature (home-team rooting, facts be damned)
FORA.tv - W. Davis: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
floatingsheep: The Beer Belly of America (where bars outnumber grocery stores - the stupid parts of America)
Gendercide: The worldwide war on baby girls | The Economist
The war on baby girls: Gendercide | The Economist Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising

Liberty University: Students Flock To School To Study Creationism (VIDEO) 40 percent of the United States believe in creationism, which holds that the Earth was created by God only several thousand years ago (hmmm, a lot of white Republicans there)
YouTube - Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups Who Benefit From Drug Prohibition
The Wizard - The New York Review of Books
Avatar - The Metacontextual Edition

Energizer Duo battery charger hides a Trojan (since 2007)
Back Door Found in Energizer DUO USB Battery Charger Software | Symantec Connect
Verizon Bills Dead Man Bill Young, Says 'Death Certificate' Not Enough To Cancel Service
All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple: The iPhone Developer Program License Agreement | Electronic Frontier Foundation (you have nothing to lose but your iChains)

030810
Study: False statements preceded war - Conflict in Iraq- msnbc.com Study: Bush led U.S. to war on 'false pretenses' - 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both (Bush lied, people died)
Explosions Hit Baghdad as Iraqis Vote in Pivotal Election - NYTimes.com
Turkey Earthquake: 6.0 Quake Kills Dozens (Earth is angry)

Graham to Obama: scrap New York terror trial, I'll stand with you / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com (as we both subvert the Constitution - more Republicans running the government)
Matthew Yglesias » GOP Says No to KSM/Gitmo Deal (well, well, well: they moved the football again - after Obama compromised yet again)
Daily Kos: GOP Caught Plotting Joe McCarthy-Style Fear Campaign Against Obama, Democrats (Obama still non-partisan)
End the Filibuster and Restore Majority Rule - Ezra Klein - Newsweek.com Government by Loophole How a bill shouldn't become a law (we don't need no steenking majority rule)
WSJ fails to disclose conflict of interest in health care op-ed | Media Matters for America (unethical behavior by the WSJ? muhahah)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Jon Chait is Shrill - "Jesus Christ, Mike Allen, Reconciliation Is NOT THAT COMPLICATED" ("Mike Allen, dishonest right-wing hack, or complete moron?" - he reports, you decide)
Chris Dodd: Public Option Supporter
Westboro Church Protests Head To Supreme Court (hate speech protected, like guns)
Sarah Palin: God Wrote Notes On His Hand, Too (teh stupid)
NBC’s Chuck Todd Blasts “Drudge Driven Journalism” | Mediaite “There’s no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something’s a story because Drudge links to it.” (but he can't help himself)
To Hell in a Handbasket | CommonDreams.org
Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care "We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada"
Palin tells Canada to get rid of public health care | Raw Story (11/09 -- what a lying hypocite)
Pam's House Blend:: Denver Archdiocese bars child from school: lesbian moms 'not living in accord w/Catholic teaching' (Christian tolerance and love)
Roy Ashburn: 'I'm Gay' the fierce opponent of gay rights who was arrested last week for drunk driving after leaving a gay nightclub, confirmed in a radio interview Monday that he is gay (of course)

Tim Geithner Saved The Economy, According To Two New Magazine Profiles
They Saved the Big Banks But Kind Of Lost The Economy Doing It « The Baseline Scenario
Fed To Keep Bank Oversight (more reform that stays the same)
Calculated Risk: Bloomberg: Banks Face Writedowns after FDIC Auctions "This problem" is many small and regional banks are carrying loans above market value. The FDIC auction will establish market value, and that will probably lead to significant losses for many banks - and more bank failures.
The Washington Monthly: The GOP Still Just Doesn't Like The Unemployed (shirkers should have been born rich)
DeLay: People are unemployed because they want to be | Raw Story
‘On the Edge’ Banks Facing Writedowns After FDIC Loan Auctions - Bloomberg.com Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. plan to auction more than $1 billion in assets seized from failed banks next month, including a loan to build a W Hotel in Atlanta, may trigger writedowns that weaken lenders nationwide (CRE hell)
At least 16 states try to ban credit checks on job seekers | National | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle Financial history can pose another hurdle for many desperately seeking work
Job creation datapoints of the day | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters Lending to small businesses is often a spectacularly good way of creating jobs

Scott and Scurvy - Now, I had been taught in school that scurvy had been conquered in 1747 - omehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times - the actual cause of scurvy would be rediscovered, and vitamin C finally isolated, in 1932 - At no point did physicians express doubt about their theories, however ineffective
Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy on Vimeo
YouTube - Lava Lamp in a Centrifuge - Would a Lava Lamp work on Jupiter with its higher gravity?
Usable Knowledge: From quantities to quality: How mathematical knowledge leads to better math teaching
Uncommon Schools : The Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices

Catholic Scandal Spreads: Former Regensburg Choirboys Talk of 'Naked Beatings' - Spiegel Online (world's largest pedophile ring)
BusinessWeek: Lessons from a $618,616 death - Your retirement- msnbc.com Widow recounts wrenching decisions of final months
Lessons of a $618,616 Death - BusinessWeek - "No other nation would allow a health system to be run the way we do it. It's completely insane"
Swiss Voters Reject Lawyers for Animals - CBS News Referendum to Appoint Special Attorneys for Abused Animals Is Voted Down
YouTube - Raw Video: Officer Punches Hand Cuffed Man - sentenced to 18 months in prison
Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore - tim rogers - Kotaku
What is your most traumatizing childhood memory? : AskReddit

Apple’s New Stance On ‘Cookie Cutter’ Apps: Add More Features Or Perish
Microsoft set to destroy Apple in every games market - Apple, with its locked-down, isolated sandbox is in trouble
What Cable Subscribers Pay for Channels They Don't Watch | Peter Kafka | Hate Paying for Cable? Here’s Why (you're getting screwed)

030710
As Iraq votes, U.S. content to keep its distance - washingtonpost.com
Iraq Election: Major Turnout At Polls Despite Insurgent Violence
Afghan Drug Trade Complicates U.S. Task in Marjah - TIME
Get up earlier, Germans tell Greeks | Business | guardian.co.uk
Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Thousands march in Jerusalem rally to protest the eviction of Palestinians from their homes there in favor of Jewish settlers.
Italy's cabinet passes decree over election chaos | Reuters - aimed at reinstating candidates from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's party stripped from ballots in two key regions due to irregularities in presenting their candidacies.
U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran - NYTimes.com - The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they were doing business in Iran (no consequences for criminal corps)
Qaeda Operative, Believed to be American, Arrested in Pakistan - NYTimes.com
BBC News - Internet access is 'a fundamental right' Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.

Torture memos resemble Clarence Thomas' way of thinking - latimes.com The Supreme Court justice has a history of dismissing prisoner brutality. And it's his former law clerk who was investigated for authorizing harsh interrogation tactics as a Justice Department lawyer (looking forward, not backwards)

Op-Ed Columnist - The Up-or-Down Vote on Obama’s Presidency - NYTimes.com (no experience, no leadership, no moral center, terrified of Republicans)
White House Seizes On Goldman Sachs Report Of Health Premiums Rising "profits will continue to soar under the status quo."
E.J. Dionne Jr. - The Republicans' big lie about reconciliation - washingtonpost.com (WaPo publishes Orrin Hatch's lies, EJ responds)
Why do journalists expect to have credibility? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (-the 11-dimensional chess)
The Washington Monthly - Updating Our Political Dictionaries ("Jamming it through": to vote on a bill.")
Texas Gov. Perry Must Win in Nov. Before 2012 Talk - NYTimes.com (all Republican males are "stong candidates" for Pres)
Doesn’t It Seem Like Every Week Some Republican Asshole Gets Caught Sending a Racist Email? | Firedoglake

Sadly, No! » What the banksters think of us - “To be honest with you, I really hope it blows up. I think the U.S. taxpayer deserves to lose a trillion dollars over this thing for the way they have behaved.”
New York Isn’t Silicon Valley, and That’s Why They Like It - NYTimes.com
Commercial real estate's challenges are apparent in downtown Cleveland corridor | cleveland.com (CRE hell)
‘Clean City’: São Paulo Scrubbed of Outdoor Ads | Design + Ideas on WU (4th largest city)

IBM Scientists Create Ultra-Fast Device Which Uses Light for Communication between Computer Chips
MIT researchers discover new way of producing electricity a previously unknown phenomenon that can cause powerful waves of energy to shoot through minuscule wires known as carbon nanotubes
Op-Ed Columnist - The Spread of Superbugs - NYTimes.com - “You could have very lethal pandemics,” he said. “We’re brewing some perfect storms.”
U.S. Annual Energy Outlook predicts alternative vehicles" won't top 50% market share in 2035 — Autoblog Green
Miniature Paper Laboratory Diagnoses Diseases With Comic-Book Colors - Whitesides - Gizmodo
First contact: The man who'll welcome aliens | Jon Ronson | Science | The Guardian Jon Ronson meets Paul Davies, the scientist with an awesome responsibility
The idea of anthropogenic global climate change in the 20th century. Spencer R. Weart. 2009; Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change - Wiley InterScience (denialists at work for over a century)

Confrontation between student and professor at Portland State University raises questions about school security, guns on campus | OregonLive.com
Daily Kos: Marijuana propaganda: Stupid as ever, never to improve.
Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution - Yahoo! News Christian-based materials dominate a growing home-school education market that encompasses more than 1.5 million students in the U.S. (educated stupid)
Christianity Crucifying the Constitution (atheists="hate filled groups" according to Christians)
Melinda Dennehy's Naked Pictures Popular with High School Students, Not With Police - Crimesider - CBS News Perhaps New Hampshire high school teacher Melinda Dennehy missed the orientation session when they explained that sending your naked photos to a student is sort of a bad idea.
Charter school in tough neighborhood gets all its seniors into college - chicagotribune.com
Definition of 'Having Sex' Varies - Science News - redOrbit - “There's a vagueness of what sex is in our culture and media,”
Kanawha woman alleges rape by state trooper  - News - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports the troopers' internal affairs unit told her not to tell anyone about it.
SWAT Team Serves Drug Warrant : Dispatches from the Culture Wars So smoking pot = "child endangerment." Storming a home with guns, then firing bullets into the family pets as a child looks on = necessary police procedures to ensure everyone's safety. Just so we're clear (cop-state America)
“act up new york” - artforum.com / in print
A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever - Funny Videos | Cracked.com
YouTube - Da Vinci's Notebook - Title of the Song
YouTube - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Episode 1 - Part 1

Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love (or maybe not so much anymore because of all the ads)
DOIs and their discontents
The Social Media Cheat Sheet
Newegg accidentally ships counterfeit Core i7 920 processors « Icrontic Tech
Reported fake Intel CPU sold at Newegg (first build ever - i7 920) - Overclockers Forums
Fighting a Flood of Counterfeit Tech Products - BusinessWeek As distributors hunt for fakes, an "epidemic" of bogus chips, routers, and computers costs the electronics industry up to $100 billion annually

030610
Where Are This War's Heroes, Military and Journalistic? | AfterDowningStreet.org (Americans shooting handcuffed children in Afganistan)
The Frame: Riots in Greece over debt crisis
Ahmad Chalabi: America and the Future of Iraq - WSJ.com (expert advice)
Reuters - Icelanders reject deal to repay British and Dutch
Capital Anglos mobilize against practice of spitting at Christians - Haaretz - Israel News - growing reports about Ultra-Orthodox Jews spitting at Christians (nice people)
Halt this pointless war (on drugz)

Obama and Social Security: NewDealDemocrat Tees Off | Angry Bear “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.” (our leader wants to bargain away Social Security, among other things)
Rahm’s Masterstroke—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) Meet Barack Obama’s new attorney general: Rahm Emanuel
Obama looking to give new life to immigration reform - latimes.com - a path toward citizenship for the 10.8 million people living in the U.S. illegally
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Romney: Palin is qualified to be President « - Blogs from CNN.com (takes one to know one)
Hullabaloo Conservatives vs Humans by digby - Yes, there were actually 8 Democratic non-humans and 145 Republican non-humans who voted in favor of torturing children
The Washington Monthly 'Stupak Happens To Be Wrong'.
Rachel Maddow Channels Glenn Beck, Savages Liz Cheney For Her 'Al Qaeda 7' Attack Ad | Crooks and Liars
The right kind of bigotry - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Marty Peretz: I couldn’t quite imagine any venture requiring trust with Arabs turning out especially well (substitute "Jew" for "Arab" and wonder what would have happened)
President Obama: Replace Rahm with Me ...an open letter from Michael Moore | MichaelMoore.com

Jobs: Short-term hope, long-term despair - Mar. 6, 2010 (the new Republican post-jobs economy)
Calculated Risk: Bank Failure #26: Centennial Bank, Ogden, Utah Centennial Bank is the 26th FDIC-insured institution to fail this year

Is it okay to ignore results from people you don’t trust? – Bad Science
Dark, dangerous asteroids found lurking near Earth - space - 05 March 2010 - New Scientist
Matthew Yglesias » The Siberian Methane Feedback Loop - But since it’s still cold in Siberia during the winter, this must all be made up, right? After all, Al Gore is fat!
95 per cent chance that Man is to blame for global warming, say scientists - Times Online (but socialism and fat Al Gore!)
Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says
Infographic: Top 20 countries with most endangered species | MNN - Mother Nature Network (+progressives in the US)
Snowball Earth: New evidence hints at global glaciation 716.5 million years ago
Knowing the mind of God: Seven theories of everything - physics-math - 04 March 2010 - New Scientist
Water practically flies off 'near perfect' hydrophobic surface that refuses to get wet
BBC News - Reports of Scottish UFOs released Reports of "flying Toblerones" and objects travelling at 1,100 mph across the Scottish sky have been released by the Ministry of Defense
Defendants more likely to be sentenced to death if victims are of high status - Science News & Press Releases
Low levels of vitamin D linked to muscle fat, decreased strength in young people

Text of e-mail sent by Detroit school board president Otis Mathis | detnews.com | The Detroit News (Is our childrens learning? No)
DNA’s Dirty Little Secret - Michael Bobelian A forensic tool renowned for exonerating the innocent may actually be putting them in prison
Op-Ed Columnist - Cops vs. Kids in New York City Schools - NYTimes.com (zero-tolerance for kids)
Former Book Designer Says Good Riddance to Print - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

Will The Past Last In The Digital Age? | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. | Miller-McCune Online Magazine
How Two Experts Build Strong Web Communities - Associations Now Magazine - Publications and Resources - ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership
6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed
30 Powerful Wordpress Plugins For Blog Administrators | Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials
Top 20 Nginx WebServer Best Security Practices

030510
Iraq Opens Up to Foreign Oil Majors - BusinessWeek Western producers like BP, Exxon Mobil, and Shell are enjoying their best access to Iraq's southern oil fields since 1972 (mission accomplished_
Eyes turn to "value for money" London 2012  - Yahoo! News UK Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters
Greece Bonds Sell Off The Charts As Nation Raises Badly-Needed Cash (Germany: sell your fucking islands)

Matthew Yglesias » Obama Prepping KSM Cave-In President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal (Obama caves to the Cheney's - the first family of torture: more leadership that sucks)
Feingold: Don’t Try KSM In A Military Commission | FDL News Desk
The full-scale collapse: From Murrow to Blitzer - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - "Al Qaeda 7?" -- also taken directly from the Cheney/Kristol ad, as Blitzer explained that numerous Justice Department lawyers have been -- as he put it -- "accused of disloyalty" by a national security organization headed by Liz Cheney.
Advisers To Recommend Trying KSM In Military Commissions | FDL News Desk ("advisors" - that would be the plural Rahm)
Keep'n It Foxy | Talking Points | Memo the Obama Department of Justice (CNN: Dept of Jihad!! - your liberal media at work)
Is It Time for Mass Resignations in Protest? | The Seminal a "sad day for the rule of law" if Obama decides not to proceed with a federal trial. "I thought the decision where to put people on trial — whether federal court or military commissions — was based on what was right, not what is politically advantageous," Colwell said (yeah, that's what we all thought)
Conservatives Turn Against Liz Cheney - As Bad As McCarthy

Hannah Giles Legal Defense Fund Is Looking for Donors « The Washington Independent a result of a lawsuit filed against her by ACORN and some of its former employees (good luck with that, it seem like a good idea at the time: "Obama's ally ACORN is trying to destroy me")
Insurers Set To Raise Prices, Walk Away From Consumers: Goldman Report (who could have predicted? HCR you can shoot yourself over)
Lynn Woolsey Should Resign As Head of the Progressive Caucus | FDL Action Lynn Woolsey says she’s a definite “yes” vote on the Senate health care bill. Even if it lacks a public option
Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow on Bart Stupak’s Hijacking of Health Care Bill | Firedoglake
Pentagon Shooter Worshipped Private Property Rights, Denounced Government 'Schemes' Like Public Education (AUDIO) | TPMMuckraker (police: "no terrorism connection" because he was a whitewing nut)
Colbert Treats Hannity Like A Prostitute (oh snap)
'John King, USA' to launch March 22 on CNN in Lou Dobbs' former time slot | Show Tracker | Los Angeles Times (Captain Amercia!)
Eric Massa Resigning: New York Congressman Quitting After Sexual Harassment Allegations

McClatchy blog: Planet Washington (not realizing, of course, that they have no shame)
Unemployment Rate Holds Steady At 9.7 Percent In February (worst recession since WWII)
Calculated Risk: The Very Expensive Home Buyer Tax Credit the extension and expansion of the home buyer tax credit will probably cost taxpayers over $100,000 for each additional home sold (another banker subsidy)
Unemployment Rate Holds at 9.7% as Job Losses Ease - CNBC (only)
Arizonans Rise Up to Protest Closing of Highway Rest Stops - NYTimes.com (they don't want to pay taxes, but it's all a conspiracy when shit closes down)
Wall Street Vet Involved In 1998 Long-Term Capital Management Bailout Says Nothing Has Changed James G. Rickards (LTC) (more change you can forget)
US may be headed for long decline. You don't have to follow. / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com Americans can avoid income decline by spending less and earning more. Here's how.

Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements | Information Is Beautiful
Dr. Douglas Fields: New Suspect In Gulf War Syndrome
Dr. Joseph Mercola: Avoid This If You Want To Keep Your Thyroid Healthy Bromines are common endocrine disruptors (Mountain Dew)
Scott Mendelson, M.D.: Alzheimer's Drug: Dimebon Is Down The Drain
Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History - Newsweek.com Göbekli Tepe - the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape.
BBC News - Probe may have found cosmic dust

Kristian Digby DEAD: BBC Presenter Died In Apartment From 'Solo Sex Game' Gone Wrong, Police Believe Auto-erotic asphyxiation
Vatican Hit By Gay Sex Scandal (do tell)
Skinvestigation claim: Detective gets 130 lap dances, makes no arrests Prosecutors claim prostitution is back at the Colacurcio-owned clubs in a big way (they should know)
Kindergarten student suspended for making gun with fingers | Guyism (zero-tolerance)
best of craigslist: I hate what America has become

The Death of the US Postal Service? | GDS Publishing
The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations : NPR

Jon Stewart Tries Chatroulette, Runs Into Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Keith Olbermann (video)
Epic Newsroom Fight Behind Anchor Caught On Camera (VIDEO)
'Sexting': the new infidelity? - Telegraph

iPad Release Date delayed To April 3 "unspecified production problem."
Microsoft's Courier 'digital journal': exclusive pictures and details (update: video!) -- Engadget (iSuck killer)

030410
6.4-magnitude quake hits southern Taiwan - CNN.com
More than 60 killed in India temple stampede - CNN.com
BBC News - 'Son of Hamas' who spied for Israel

Who are the actual "crazy" people in American politics? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (dumbass "journalists" like Mark Benjamin, for one, with his crazy fair 'n balanced stick - Bachman=Grayson)

Rove Protects the Rear | Mother Jones In a new book, the ex-Bush aide contends W. didn't knowingly mislead the nation into the Iraq war. Here's the history he leaves out.
Does Anybody Still Like Karl Rove? by Lloyd Grove - As the "Turd Blossom" peddles his new book, even name-brand conservatives are taking shots at him. Plus, Rove's secret stint as Harold Ford's guru.
Infographic | A Brief History of Senate Reconciliation - SunlightFoundation.com (nuclear option! never been used before!)
Stark Runs Into Stiff Resistance - Roll Call But the 78-year-old Stark has a reputation among his colleagues as a loose cannon with a history of off-color remarks including calling then-Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) a “little wimp” and a “fruit cake” and accused then-Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) of being a “whore” for the insurance industry.
RNC donors to gather at Blackwater compound - Ben Smith - politico.com (it all comes together)
Palin At Oscar Gift Suite: Sarah Palin And Entourage 'Like Locusts' - Or, in common-sense language, Palin and her handlers, "practically cleaned out the suite." (Wasilabillies)
Think Progress » Palin: ‘I joined Fox’ because there’s too much ‘opinion interjected in hard news’ in the mainstream media.
Jon Stewart Exposes Fox News 'Balance,' Goes After Sarah Palin And Megyn Kelly (VIDEO)
Daily Kos: Anthony Weiner Takes it to the FOX Liar Brigade
Open Left:: EMILY's List dumps Blanche Lincoln (serial liar and sleazeball)
Grayson, Bachmann Debate Health Care Reform On 'Larry King Live' (crazy Michelle lies about reconcilation)
DC: Congress Gradually Loosens Grip On District That lifted bans preventing the city from using tax money to help poor women pay for abortions and implementing a decade-old measure legalizing medical marijuana.
Liz Cheney's Attack On 'Al Qaeda Seven' Undermined By Bush-Cheney Lawyer A furious effort by Liz Cheney to label seven Justice Department lawyers who previously defended Guantanamo detainees as terrorist sympathizers
Funny Or Die Presidential Reunion Unites SNL Stars for Web Hit [video]
Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell, Chevy Chase, Ron Howard, Jim Carrey, Fred Armisen, Darrell Hammond, Dan Aykroyd, Maya Rudolph, Dana Carvey, FOD Team, Jake, and Antonio Scarlata - Video
Sheriff's Office Cites Islamic Terror 'Cells' In Bossier Parish | TPMMuckraker (training all the seniors in karate, setting up private militia)
Sources: Anti-Gay California State Sen. Roy Ashburn At Gay Club Before DUI Arrest - cbs4.com State Sen. Roy Ashburn, R-Calif., Nabbed For DUI, Issues Statement
RNC Handbook Plays On 'Fear,' Mocks Donors
Holly Graf: Navy Relieves Harsh Commander of USS Cowpens - time - The Rise and Fall of a Female Captain Bligh - even greater anger seems directed at the Navy brass for promoting such an officer to positions of ever-increasing responsibility ("no favoritsim" says Navy)
Here's a bargain: five dollars to overthrow the US government | Richard Adams | World news | guardian.co.uk Want to seize control of the US government? Just fill out this 'subversive agent' form and pay a $5 fee, thank you
US facing surge in rightwing extremist and militia groups | World news | guardian.co.uk • Civil rights report shows 250% rise in 'patriot' groups • Economy and media conspiracy theories fuel growth

Morgan Stanley: Americans Aren't Working Because They Can't Move Anywhere
White House Sends Volcker Rule To Congress (where it will die, like everything else)
GOP Tensions Simmer Over CFPA (making sure you have no consumer protection)
Credit-Score Urban Legends – Busted! | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
Drivers complain that Toyota's fixes didn't work - Yahoo! News
US Economy — Jobless Claims Fall in Sign That Employment May Thaw - CNBC initial claims for unemployment insurance fell by 29,000 to a seasonally adjusted 469,000
Herb Allison, Treasury Official: Government Barely Involved With Citi Despite $45 Billion Bailout
Simon Johnson: Questions For Mr. Pandit if you want to expose the hubris, mismanagement, and executive incompetence -- let's face it -- Citi is the low hanging fruit.

Depression’s Upside - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Dave Chapelle - The Secret Dave talks about depression at The Laugh Factory in Hollywood, CA.
Magazine Preview - Building a Better Teacher - NYTimes.com
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Forget it Jake -- it's Star Wars (generation gap gapping faster)
Time Travel in Lost: The Metaphorics of Predestination | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine
Lost Producers Consult Time-Specializing Physicist - Page 3 - Lostpedia Forums
The New Commandments | Culture | Vanity Fair
2010 Session - Bill History (dumbass South Dakota says CO2 natural, good for planet)

FDA warns 17 food companies of misleading claims on labels - washingtonpost.com (reverses Bush policy of letting foodco's put anything they wanted on their labels)
How Locavores Could Save the World | Foreign Policy
A Guide to When Fruits and Vegetables Are in Season - What We Eat - GOOD
Dan Barber's foie gras parable | Video on TED.com
In Obesity Epidemic, What’s One Cookie? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - Numerous scientific studies show that small caloric changes have almost no long-term effect on weight.

Everyone Is A Photographer | RVA Magazine | Richmond, VA
PDN's 30 2010 (no they aren't)

Tom Watson: A Death in the Blogging Family (Jon Swift/Al Weisel)
Tim Burgess Approves Crackdown on Aggressive, Adorable Girl Scouts - Seattle News - The Daily Weekly ("aggressive pan-handling")
Vagina segment on ABC TV show Hungry Beast causes a stir | Herald Sun
Repent Amarillo | Repent Amarillo: map of sinner to throw stones at (4. Breast cancer events such as “Race for the Cure” to illuminate the link between abortion and breast cancer)
He Who Casts the First Stone (Christian harrassment)
Amarillo Citizens Against Repent Amarillo
RepentAmarillo.org
Strategic-Level Spiritual Warfare « Spirit of Error
YouTube - God warrior!
“Sex Really” Ad is Misandry. Stop The Man Hate « The Sexademic
To Avoid Funding Gay Marrieds, Catholic Charities Denies Benefits to All Spouses - The Sexist - Washington City Paper

Nicholas W Skyles | Blog » New Work: Tommy Westphall’s Mind: A Multiverse Explored
Glasstire: Texas visual art online - Good Theory Can't Save Bad Art
YouTube - Teeth Mountain VS. Shams and Narwhalz
Publishing: The Revolutionary Future - The New York Review of Books By Jason Epstein
Streams of Content, Limited Attention | UX Magazine
SiliconRepublic.com: In three years desktops will be irrelevant - Google sales chief - Business
How Nokia helped Iran "persecute and arrest" dissidents
Geosense for Windows

030310
Chile Quake Shows Limits of Tsunami Forecasting - NYTimes.com
NSA threatened Qwest CEO with repercussions if he didn’t cut a surveillance deal
Michael Bennet Will Introduce Reform Bill To Prohibit Members Of Congress From Becoming Lobbyists (Satan speaks)
Interference Seen in Blackwater Inquiry - NYTimes.com An official at the United States Embassy in Iraq has told federal prosecutors that he believes that State Department officials sought to block any serious investigation of the 2007 shooting episode in which Blackwater Worldwide security guards were accused of murdering 17 Iraqi civilians (remember when making campaign calls from the wrong phone was a Federal crime?)
Petition against Anti-Gay Bill Delivered to Ugandan Parliament | Africa | English
Tracking Monzer al-Kassar, an international arms dealer : The New Yorker The decades-long battle to catch an international arms broker.
A Jewish settler throws wine at a Palestinian woman in Hebron in the West Bank.

Roberts Versus Roberts | The New Republic Just how radical is the chief justice? (radical Republican activist judges)
Rahm Emanuel: Obama's Chief Of Sabotage - The latest toxic meme to spread across the pages of my once-beloved Washington Post is that President Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, is the one reasonable man in the White House.
Senate Ends Impasse Over Extending Jobless Benefits - NYTimes.com “This is one senator,” said Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a chief political strategist for Senate Republicans. “This does not represent the position of the caucus.” (except for Demented Demint and Bonehead Boehner)
Maddow Slams Orrin Hatch For Lying, Washington Post For Printing It (video) - Maddow noted that Sen. Hatch used reconciliation no less than 10 times over the past 21 years. (but that's what WaPo does!)
Wash Post's Parker equates Palin's "death panels" falsehood with Slaughter's dentures story | Media Matters for America (Washington Post? we're sooo surprised)
Republicans Worry About Objectivity Of Parliamentarian They Appointed
Health Care Deadline In Two Weeks: Dems Want Bill Finished By March 18 (and it really matters what "Dems want")
Jack Conway: Kentucky Needs a New Voice in Washington
Ford: 'America First'?! - Ben Smith - politico.com (listen to Woody Guthrie!)
Mort Zuckerman Out: Mortimer Zuckerman Not Running For NY Senate (one good thing Harold accomplished)
The Democratic Party | Highway Hypocrisy They voted against the Recovery Act, attacked it... then took credit for projects in their districts. They're Highway Hypocrites.
Rush Limbaugh's Penthouse For Sale (PHOTOS)
Proposal would put Ronald Reagan's face on the $50 bill - latimes.com Ronald Reagan is honored by, among other things, an airport, a freeway, an aircraft carrier and -- ironically for a critic of big government -- one of the biggest federal buildings in Washington
The Truth About 'Teabagging': Is the Term Offensive? - The Gaggle Blog - Newsweek.com the use of the word “teabagging” earned the second most indecency complaints on cable TV
A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things -- Daily Intel

Consumer Agency Within Fed Seen as Victory for Banking Industry - Bloomberg.com Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, called a Senate plan to house the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency at the Fed “a joke.” (that worked so well last time)
Op-Ed Columnist - A Word From the Wise - NYTimes.com These local incentives matter because smart, skilled labor is everywhere now ('ol flathead has flipped)
Stimulus Money Shouldn't Go Overseas, Say Democratic Senators (creating jobs in ... China!)
Michael Bennet Will Introduce Reform Bill To Prohibit Members Of Congress From Becoming Lobbyists (video) (common sense will fail)

Depression’s Upside - NYTimes.com - For Darwin, depression was a clarifying force, focusing the mind on its most essential problems
We're so good at medical studies that most of them are wrong
Are There Really 'Continents' of Floating Garbage?
Scientists Have Discovered Booze That Won't Give You A Hangover - Alcohol - io9 oxygenated alcohol
Psychologists Win Prescribing Rights | The Lund Report Not surprisingly, closing one of the Oregon legislature’s most longstanding “scope-of-practice” issues still feels unresolved
Whales, Like Trees, Slow Warming : Discovery News Whales are the largest animals on the planet, and when it comes to storing carbon, they act like trees in a forest - whaling released around 105 million tons of carbon over the last 100 years -- as much carbon as burning most of Oregon's forests, or driving 128,000 Hummers for 100 years
The Union A very well built documentary about cannabis and drug prohibition. Does the drug prohibition work? Have a look and think for yourself.

To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case - NYTimes.com delivering the message that abortion is the primary tool in a decades-old conspiracy to kill off blacks (next up: the Emanciplation Proclamation)
Billboard Controversy: Signs in Atlanta Say Black Children are 'Endangered Species' Because of 'Too Many Abortions' - ABC News
Stop Perpetuating Myths About Black Women and Abortion | RHRealityCheck.org
Women of Color and the Anti-Choice Focus on Eugenics | RHRealityCheck.org

New weapon in fight against terror - the nose | News.com.au Every human nose is unique, says scientist
Giga-Biter In Obstruction Charge - March 2, 2010 - a New York City man grabbed a flash drive and swallowed the data storage device while in the custody of Secret Service agents
An Eyewitness News investigation talks to a police officer who reveals the pressure they are under to make quotas - 3/02/10 - New York News and Tri-State News - 7online.com
YouTube - Pedigree Dogs ad shot 1000 FPS using the Phantom camera
OK Go Slap a Tetherball for “This Too Shall Pass”: Behind the Clip : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
The movies of Clint Eastwood : The New Yorker Out of the West Clint Eastwood’s shifting landscape.
YouTube - The Endless Night: A Valentine to Film Noir
Why There Is No Jewish Narnia > Publications > Jewish Review of Books
YouTube - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Review (1/4)
A Whole Lotta Nothing: The Art of Negotiation According to Pawnstars

How Apple and Google's Romance Turned To Hate - Apple - Gizmodo
Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? | Video on TED.com
What Apple vs. HTC Could Mean - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On 20 iPhone Patents: The Complete Documents - Apple htc lawsuit - Gizmodo (patenting "gestures")
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone’s Server Goes Down | The Marmot's Hole An army of Korean netizens apparently attacked the Japanese Internet forum 2ch for their anti-Korean postings, causing the site to shut down on Monday.
YouTube - I Am A Motherfucker [1/2] (Epic Beard Man)

030210

Who really gets hurt when GOP's Bunning blocks this bill? | McClatchy
Bunning Blocks Jobless Benefits AGAIN
Bunning's callous grandstanding - Editorial - Kentucky.com
Consuming Interests: 4,700 Marylanders to Bunning: Thanks a lot, senator - baltimoresun.com
Unemployed To Suffer After Bunning's Filibuster - cbs4.com nearly 50,000 unemployed Floridians will lose benefits starting March 13 if Bunning's filibuster continues.
The cost of Bunning's ploy: 27,400 Texans will lose jobless benefits this week | Texas on the Potomac | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle ("tough shit" Texas)
Right-wing media praise Bunning for blocking worker pay, relief to unemployed | Media Matters for America (all those unemployed Limbaugh-listeners)
Jon Stewart On Bunning: Just Tell Him There Are 'Free Smoothies For Crazy People In The Lobby' To Get Him Out Of The Room (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire
Three More Senators Join Public Option Effort
AMERICAblog News: It's Rahm's White House and everyone else works for him, including Obama Rahm Emanuel is continuing his p.r. offensive in the Washington Post today with a front-page article proclaiming him to be the smartest person in the White House (wtf?)
Hotheaded Emanuel may be White House voice of reason - washingtonpost.com (another WaPo steno-piece)
WaPo gives Hatch platform to mislead, contradict Post reporting | Media Matters for America (Fred Hiatt at work)
Orrin Hatch Rewrites History Of His Own Voting Record On Reconciliation | The Plum Line
Lindsey Grahamanuel, The Military Commissions & The Beginnings Of Administration Pushback | attackerman
Memo To Progressives: If You Disliked Bayh Just Wait Til You See Ellsworth | TPMDC - Abortion, gay rights, and gun control (in other words, he's a Republican)
Ford not running against Sen. Gillibrand - NYPOST.com (bye-bye, says he could have won)
Mickey Kaus Takes Out Papers For U.S. Senate Run - Los Angeles News - LA Daily (the devolution of the wanker run ... even more conservative than Boxer ... blows goats)
AFL-CIO Backs Halter In Arkansas, Commits $3M To Defeat Lincoln | TPMDC
Paterson Is Said to Have Ordered Calls in Abuse Case - NYTimes.com (Governor Disaster)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Yes, of course he’s running… Ralph Reed is getting ready to run for Congress in Georgia (sorry about that little Abramoff thing)
Too much crazy - This Modern World - Salon.com From right-wing teleprompter jokes to the ravings of climate change denialists, the fun never stops

TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect Schumer Pushes Back on Consumer Finance Compromise (Dodd negotiates a bill designed to do nothing with ... Republicans!)
15 Years Ago, the Combined Assets of the 6 Biggest Banks Totaled 17% of GDP... By 2006, 55% ... Now, 63% ~ Washington's Blog (the great screwing of America by the banksters)
Feds: KPMG Sent Sample Auditor Docs To Canopy’s Blackburn - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ
Ripoff Report: Canopy Financial Stole my Health Savings Account Internet
Wasted Stimulus - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com On average, for every extra percentage point of the labor force that is unemployed, a state got $25 less per capita (but Alaska won!)
A parable about how one nation came to financial ruin. - By Charles Munger - Slate Magazine
JapanFocus: Money in Socialist Economies: The Case of North Korea Ruediger Frank
Information Processing: Charlie Munger at Caltech

World warming unhindered by cold spells: scientists | Reuters "January, according to satellite (data), was the hottest January we've ever seen," (will they retract their Al Gore smears?)
NASA - Chilean Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days shortened the length of an Earth day by about 1.26 microseconds
Graham says GOP should stop demonizing climate change: You’re risking “your party’s future with younger people” by calling it a “hoax.” « Climate Progress "Are we the party of carbon pollution forever in unlimited amounts?" (why, yes)
Snake Vs. Dinosaur Deathmatch Preserved In Fossil Find : NPR
Polar Bears Survived Previous Warming : Discovery News
Book Review: Supernormal Stimuli - WSJ.com
Death of the Dawkins forum – The world’s busiest atheist forum closes « Reality Is My Religion
rationalskepticism.org • View topic - An Apology by Richard Dawkins
Just Let Them Eat the Marshmallow - The Daily Beast Images Judging a kid's ability to delay gratification by whether they eat a marshmallow or not is a ridiculous way of predicting their future achievement
Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation | Magazine
Return of the Fungi | Mother Jones

BC professor Lisa Dodson tracks ‘economic’ disobedience - The Boston Globe “The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy,’’
Ryszard Kapuscinski: He was hailed as the greatest reporter of his time. But how much did he make up? - Press, Media - The Independent according to a new biography, his books were more fiction than fact.
Next American City » Columns » Why is Joel Kotkin Extolling the Virtues of Suburbia? The elites are fighting to ensure the dominance of their preferred built form and the Obama administration, he claims, is in an all-out “war on the suburbs”—but low-density sprawl will eventually win out ("war on the suburbs" oh sure)

Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet | Threat Level | Wired.com The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence (wants replace the internet with a new spy machine)
Google Secures Broad Patent for Location-Based Advertising
10 Things Symbian Does Better Than Android | Symbian-Guru.com
Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement (Jobs: "we'll sue the shit out of everybody")
Core i3 takes on Athlon II - The Tech Report - Page 1

030110
News: 8.8 Earthquake in Chile – Plog Photo Blog
Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Asia Times Online :: Pyongyang Journal: Happy birthday, Comrade Kim By Pepe Escobar
The Raw Story | NATO sinks Somali pirate monthership

Excessive bipartisanship and other matters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - A mountain of evidence has emerged over the last several years documenting pervasive, systematic abuse of the Patriot Act powers - "some Republican senators objected" and might have called Democrats "soft on terror," so that was the end of that. (who could have predicted?)

B'klyn ACORN cleared over giving illegal advice on how to hide money from prostitution "They edited the tape to meet their agenda," said the source (whoops, our bad, no consquences, move on, sorry about that de-funding ... not)

What do we need health insurers for anyway? - Los Angeles Times (the unaskable question)
WaPo 's Fred Hiatt falsely claims health care subsidies aren't popular | Media Matters for America (WaPo lies again)
Week in Review > image: What Might Have Been (how the Republicans screwed America)
How the Public Option Would Likely Get a Vote During Reconciliation | FDL Action
Adam Green: Public Option Garners Avalanche of Support in Senate
Your Congress at Work « On Politicking Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ~ Mark Twain
Arianna Huffington: Reform Déjà Vu: Democrats Follow Failed Health Care Strategy and Preemptively Surrender on Consumer Financial Protection Agency

Republicans Setting Filibuster Record "The numbers are astonishing in this Congress," (Repubicans take obstructionism to a new level)
Bunning Objects To Extending Unemployment Insurance AGAIN (video)
Jim Bunning Impasse Puts Federal Employees Out Of Work
Bunning Blockade Leads To 21 Percent Fee Cut For Doctors | TPMDC
Democrats On Unemployment Blockage: Thank You, Jim Bunning | TPMDC (for drawning attention to filibuster abuses)
The Washington Monthly - When The Gop Gives Dems Advice
Glenn Beck's eliminationist attacks on progressives: How long before someone acts on this violent rhetoric? | Crooks and Liars
A question for Glenn Beck: If progressives are the root of all evil, what about the civil rights they championed? | Crooks and Liars
In like a Lyin’ | Firedoglake (Beck: kill the progressives, squash them like the cochroaches they are (whoops, that was Begin talking about Palestinians))
DownWithTyranny!: Gay Money so many conservatives-- from Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and South Carolina "loner," Lindsay Graham to a dozen right-wing House members like Patrick McHenry, David Dreier, Aaron Schock, Trent Franks, etc-- are closeted, self-loathing gays themselves.
Quinn calls Obama a "little wuss from Kenya," adds, "Somebody should slap him silly" | Media Matters for America
Bill Halter Running For Arkansas Senate: Progressive Democrat To Challenge Blanche Lincoln (the second-worst Dem Senator after Ben Nelson)
ActBlue — Dump Lincoln -- Chip In To Bill Halter's Senate Campaign
GOP Rep Defends Terrorism-In-Convenience-Stores Comment | TPMMuckraker (all those brown-skinned people)
Robert Reich: The Enthusiasm Gap | TPMCafe The Republican base is fired up. The Dem base is packing up. - The Dem base is lethargic because congressional Democrats continue to compromise on everything the Dem base cares about (mission accomplished, Pres Cool)

Op-Ed Columnist - Financial Reform Endgame - NYTimes.com (reform designed to fail will fail)
Editorial - As Foreclosures Continue ... - NYTimes.com (program designed to fail was useless)
British Company to Buy A.I.G.’s Asian Unit for $35 Billion - NYTimes.com

Furious backlash from Simon Singh libel case puts chiropractors on ropes | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.uk
Index on Censorship » Blog Archive » Judge ‘baffled’ by Simon Singh chiropractic case Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge said he was “troubled” by the “artificiality” of the case (Justice Judge)
Massive head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt - Yahoo! News Amenhotep III
Darkness Begets Dishonesty, Study Finds - Yahoo! News Dim lights can make it seem as if no one is watching, triggering moral transgressions in many people, a new study suggests.
Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples | Magazine - Compressed sensing
Caltech Researchers Create Highly Absorbing, Flexible Solar Cells with Silicon Wire Arrays - Caltech
Long-term cannabis use can double risk of psychosis | Reuters
UN's climate link to hurricanes in doubt - Times Online
HIV/AIDS in the United States | Factsheets | CDC HIV/AIDS
Really? - The Claim - Fruit Juice Can Prevent Kidney Stones - Question - NYTimes.com
Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory | Video on TED.com

John Huston and Jean-Paul Sartre
M. Sartre Goes To Hollywood - New York Times

Weaponizing Mozart - Reason Magazine “subjecting” (its words) badly behaved children to Mozart and others. In “special detentions,” the children are forced to endure two hours of classical music
Pregnant Iowa Woman Arrested for Falling Down | Women's Rights | Change.org

html5media - Project Hosting on Google Code
Overview | Pew Internet & American Life Project Some 46% of Americans say they get news from four to six media platforms on a typical day. Just 7% get their news from a single media platform on a typical day.
With Microsoft and Antitrust, Shoe Now on Other Foot - Law Blog - WSJ
FT.com / Technology - Google faces Brussels antitrust scrutiny
RSA 2010: Can Adobe Stop the Hate? - CSO Online - Security and Risk Security pros are unhappy with Adobe Systems over recent flaws and attacks
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