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020910

Shelby Releases Hold On Obama Nominees
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Hand me a 40 of Mad Bitch (so telling: WaPo's Dana "dickwhisperer" Milbank always votes Republican)
Murtha's Death Caused By Surgical Mistake

Calculated Risk: NFIB: Small Business Owners Report "shortage of customers" (Fed will pump customers into the economy)





020810
Op-Ed Columnist - The World Capital of Killing - NYTimes.com A peer- reviewed study put the Congo war’s death toll at 5.4 million as of April 2007 and rising at 45,000 a month
Greek Stocks Drop 3.9%; Banks Tumble - WSJ.com we are seeing a wholesale selling off of the country
Australian arrested for anti-Israel activities: lawyer - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Americans Held in Haiti Are Divided Over Leader - NYTimes.com
Super-wealthy investors move billions out of Greece | World news | The Observer (after pillaging the country)
License to Kill? Intelligence Chief Says U.S. Can Take Out American Terrorists - ABC News
Blackwater / Xe May Get $1 Billion Afghanistan Training Contract Despite Failure with Border Police – Rethink Afghanistan War Blog (rewarding criminal behavior)

Obama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care - NYTimes.com (because that worked so well last time)
Exclusive: Sebelius Says Obama Will 'Accelerate' Health Care Reform After Bipartisan Meeting (after a year of stepping on the brakes)
Daily Kos: Where is the White House on HCR? - Obama's involvement has "dried up," (same place they've always been: nowhere)
FDL News Desk » The Future Of Health Care, Described Anthem Blue Cross in California announced that their rates would go up as high as 39% (Anthem: muhahaha Scott Brown muhahaha)
Krugman: 'America Is Not Yet Lost, But The Senate Is Working On It' NYTimes.com - Sure enough, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, accused Mr. Shelby of “silliness.” Yep, that will really resonate with voters. (emulating Poland)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Joke’s On You: The Founding Bloggers (are totally stupid and we're laughing at THEM and Palin)
Whiskey Fire: Pressed, Printed, Stomped, Tripped: Rasmussen attempts comedy (spreading lies: "Now let's poll the actual politicians in actual positions of power willing to do something so obviously insane as to freeze federal spending during a recession.")
Echidne Of The Snakes: The Misogyny Bowl (never, ever, buy a Dodge truck)
Daily Kos: Justice Department Seeks Mentally Retarded - Lawyers Is Alberto Gonzales still looking for a job? (and that would be "intellectually challenged," please)
CNN contributor Erick Erickson: "Ugly feminists return to their kitchens" after Tebow Super Bowl ad | Media Matters for America CNN contributor Erick Erickson: "Ugly feminists return to their kitchens" after Tebow Super Bowl ad (that'll teach 'em ... from the finest name in news, or something)
The Tea Partiers: Fraudulent Fiscal Conservatives - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan This is about Christianism, permanent war against Islam, rounding up illegals (did you hear Tancredo?) and a culture war against the cities and "unreal Americans". Unreal means not Christianist.
Work in Progress » Ben Nelson to Join Filibuster of Craig Becker (Christ, what an asshole)
Washington Post actively sought out "liberals are condescending" piece | Media Matters for America - I wonder when we'll find out that a Washington Post staffer is actively seeking out a similarly disparaging column about conservatives?

Dow Closes Below 10,000 For First Time In 3 Months
Alea | Scariest Chart EVER: Loss Severity, Subprime First-Lien
Senate Jobs Bill Stalled
Fitch Says Prime Jumbo RMBS Near 10% Delinquent « HousingWire (but ... ACORN!)
Bank Securitization Woes Only Beginning « naked capitalism
John Thain Taking Reins at CIT - NYTimes.com (how have the mighty fallen ... into a good job)
The Fight over Prices on the Internet - NYTimes.com (rightwing Supreme Court at work)
U.S. sends a message by stepping up crackdown on foreign business bribes - washingtonpost.com
Toyota Recall: 300,000 Prius Hybrids Recalled
Streetsblog Capitol Hill » A Vow to ‘Bring Republicans to the Table’ for a New Transport Bill (gas tax "off the table")
Burj Khalifa, World's Tallest Tower, Closed A Month After Opening Electrical problems are at least partly to blame
Raymond J. Learsy: The Question Unasked Again and Again of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein and Hank Paulson "What was the nature of the myriad discussions at the height of the crisis between Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Chairman Hank Paulson and Goldman Sachs Chairman Lloyd Blankfein?"
American Airlines Blankets Will Cost 8 DOLLARS (next up: potty fee)

Democracy put to the test
Scientist: Autism Paper Had Catastrophic Effects : NPR
Research making sense of the nose and tongue - SFGate Science and some ancient arts unlock sensory mysteries
The Qanat: Ancient Antidote to Arid Iran’s Thirst
UNESCO Multimedia Archives | Qanats and Historic Hydraulic Structures. Yazd, Iran | Historic sites and cities
The Seminal » Obama’s Food Policy (conservadem strategy)
Body of Sea Urchin is One Big Eye | LiveScience
Toxic coal-tar cleanup to cost New York $3 billion | recordonline.com Utilities deploy to reclaim dangerous residue of manufactured gas
My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test -- Politics Daily (PETN implants next)
Flame Retardants Linked to Fertility, Development Problems : Discovery News
China finds 170 more tons of tainted milk powder increasingly clear many products discovered in the country's 2008 milk scandal were repackaged for sale instead of destroyed.
Are cat owners really top dogs for brains? | Mail Online According to a scientific study, cat owners tend to be cleverer than their dog-loving counterparts.

How the Letterman-Oprah-Leno Super Bowl Ad Came Together - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com
A Conversation with Paul Ford, Web Editor of Harper's Magazine | The Awl
How Harper’s was doomed by its paywall | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
"Slacker": 15 years later - Salon.com Richard Linklater, the pap-smear girl, the JFK guy and others remember the little indie creation that could, and all that came after.

Blogger Profile: Ai Weiwei / China Digital Times
21st-Century Shooters Are No Country for Old Men | GameLife | Wired.com
Shocker: Consumers Hate Waiting For Slow Web Sites - HotHardware
PayPal reversing India payments; here's why... - Computerworld Blogs
QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession

020710
BBC News - G7 nations pledge debt relief for quake-hit Haiti The world's leading industrialised nations have pledged to write off the debts that Haiti owes them
Emptywheel » “The president himself does not have to sign off on kill orders.” - the process by which US citizens are placed on a list to be assassinated - the President gets to retain plausible deniability for the killing of a US citizen (just target someone "near" the American)
Matthew Yglesias » Our Strange Constitution - the Obama administration has some kind of process in place to assassinate American citizens
Attackerman » The Depth Of Official Pakistani Anger At Us
Chevron hires twelve public relations firms to discredit indigenous Indians in Ecuador
Optics shriek 'hypocrisy' Danny Williams, with his bounce, bombast and obstreperous charm. So it is easy to wish the premier of Newfoundland and Labrador well as he begins his road to recovery following heart surgery in the United States.
Witch-hunt victim recounts torture ordeal - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) A woman has been tortured by her neighbours for two days and forced to eat human waste before she finally gave (Nepal)
They're Here, They're Queer, It's No Big Deal | Foreign Policy Gay Israelis have been serving openly in the military for 17 years, and their country is safer for it (US and Turkey only NATO countries not allowing gays to serve openly ... that's right, Turkey)

Steve Clemons: Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency
FT.com / Comment / Analysis - America: A fearsome foursome (Arrogant Gang of Four fucked America)
Anthem Blue Cross raises premiums 39% (because they can, and the teapartiers hate health care reform)
Frank Rich - Smoke the Bigots Out of the Closet - NYTimes.com But the press focus on McCain, the crazy man in Washington’s attic, was misleading. His yapping was an exception, not the rule.
Daily Kos: Even more great news for John McCain
FOXNews.com - Palin 'Would Be Willing' to Take On Obama in 2012 (you betcha)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Palin and the tea-party "movement": nothing new - "On her lapel, Palin wore a small pin with two flags -- for Israel and the United States."
Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand? (talk to the hand)
Stefan Sirucek: Palin's Tea Party Crib Notes
Palin Considering 2012 Run, Defends Limbaugh's Use Of 'Retard' On Fox News Sunday (Limbaugh controls her brand)
National Abigail Adams Project Volunteers - Putting the power of information in the hands of the people. Putting the power of information in the hands of the people (as long as it isn't too much information: teapartiers: keep it simple and dumb, like Scott Brown)
Daily Kos :: Research 2000, MoE 2%, Jan 20, 2010 - Jan 31, 2010 crosstabs

EconomPic: Employment by Education Attainment This clearly shows the growing differentiation within the U.S. of the "haves" and "have nots" (no American left un-jobbed)
Hank Paulson: John McCain Gave Me Anxious Days And Hours

Record-breaking collisions Initial results from high-energy proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider offer first glimpse of physics at new energy frontier.
The worlds most precise clock | R&D Mag quantum logic clock
World's Biggest Snake Ate New Prehistoric Croc Species The 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) crocodile relative—called Cerrejonisuchus improcerus—wouldn't have stood a fighting chance against the 45-foot-long (13.7-meter-long) Titanoboa cerrejonesi
Biggest Snake Photos: Prehistoric Giant Discovered the snake was "longer than a city bus ... and heavier than a car,"
Which Organs Can I Live Without, and How Much Cash Can I Get for Them? | Popular Science
YouTube - White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria
The Miracle of Vitamin D: Sound Science, or Hype? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

Texas Nurse to Stand Trial for Reporting Doctor - NYTimes.com indicted and threatened with 10 years in prison for doing what she knew a nurse must: inform state regulators that a doctor at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine (Texas justice)
12-year-old Queens student handcuffed and arrested for doodling on desk with a ERASABLE marker - principal Marilyn Grant - Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills - is the worst pricipal in the world and is now famous on the internets for all eternity
Christians claim hate crimes law an effort to ‘eradicate’ their beliefs | Raw Story (which, of course, are based on hate)
Review - Sex on the Brain - Sexuality 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life by Daniel G. Ame
Daily Kos: With Friends Like These... (anti-feminist women)
Elderly couple went on alleged swindling spree - The Boston Globe

Is ChatRoulette the Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past? -- New York Magazine

020610
Uganda’s Kill-the-Straight-Friends-of-Gays Bill « wakingupnow.com - Uganda’s Kill-the-Gays bill
Irish eyes aren't smiling over ambassador's lavish Rockcliffe digs a re-construction tab exceeding $7 million, the 24,000-square-foot, four-storey house is now the accommodation envy of the diplomatic corps in Ottawa (while Ireland goes down the drain)

'Snowmageddon' blankets Mid-Atlantic in white

t r u t h o u t | Bush, Cheney and the Great Escape - Obama's DOJ went out of the way to make sure Bybee and Yoo escaped free and clear from any censure for their despicable activities
The winter of America's discontent - latimes.com
Daily Kos: How a poll is conducted (like the dKos Republicans are incredibly stupid and insane poll)
The Tea Party is still taking shape - washingtonpost.com
The New York Times' Tea Party convention coverage continues to be dreadful | Media Matters for America (Fact: Nancy Pelosi never called Tea Party supporters "Nazis." Period. But the Times quotes a conservative making that slanderous claim. The Times treats the outlandish allegation as fact)
Bill O'Reilly's House - Virtual Globetrotting - an "ordinary house" that "ordinary people" like Bill-O live in
Daily Kos: Duncan Hunter and the Hermaphrodite Apocalypse -"It's not just gays and lesbians. It's the whole gay lesbian transgender bisexual community. If you're going to let anybody in no matter what sexual preference that they have, that means the military's going to let everybody in." (words speak for themselves)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Compares Job Losses Under Presidents Obama and Bush | TPM Document Collection (optomistic forcast, but you get the idea)
The Intelligent Investor: Will We Trust Wall Street Again? - WSJ.com (no, and not you either, WSJ)
Is Tim Geithner Paying Attention To the Global Economy? « The Baseline Scenario (no)
The Big Picture » Blog Archive » How Can Securitization != Lending Be Made Safer ? - the abdication of lending standards by the “lend-to-sell-to securitizers” business model that caused so much of the trouble
Investors treading water on $13-million property - Mortgage Insider : The Orange County Register (CRE opton-ARMs)

Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist : "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."
Lonely whale's song remains a mystery - 10 December 2004 - New Scientist
Electric Charge Can Change Freezing Point of Water | Wired Science | Wired.com
Fossils show earliest animal trails - 565 million year


Security flaw puts iPhone users at risk of phishing attacks (Updated)
greenarraycips: GA144 Brief: with 144 g18 computers and capable of up to 100 billion operations per second

020510
Blasts kill 40 at height of Iraq Shiite pilgrimage
Dubai Police May Seek Israeli PM’s Arrest Over Assassination -- News from Antiwar.com Police Chief Dismisses Israeli Claims Hamas Leader Was Meeting 'Iranian Officials' (Mossad at work)
Report: Israel Stole $2B from Palestinian Workers by Jonathan Cook -- Antiwar.com
Turkish Girl Buried Alive For Talking To Boys (Muslim "honor killing")
Obama Statue In Indonesia To Be Removed From Park

White House Prepares for Possibility of Two Supreme Court Vacancies - ABC News SCOTUS Watchers Believe Justices Stevens and Ginsburg Could Decide to Step Aside (but Scott Brown will block them)
Matthew Yglesias » The Ontology of Miranda Rights conservatives think that any constraint on the state security apparatus is too much. They believe, contrary to all of the evidence, that the rule-bound criminal justice system can’t or doesn’t function and that things would be better if we scrapped all the rules
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - On the claimed "war exception" to the Constitution (assassination of American citizens)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The fact that the Government labels Person X a "Terrorist" is not proof that Person X is, in fact, a Terrorist.
Daily Kos: Shelby holds Senate hostage to win military contract for European firm (someone call Alito)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect| Extortion Day in the Senate. Sen. Richard Shelby has placed a "hold" on every single pending Obama nominee (well, look what they gave Ben Nelson)
Shelby's Blanket Hold Puts Spotlight On Defense Contractor Ties (American Democracy is over)
The (Missed) Second Chance | Talking Points Memo (but Rahm doesn't want to "offend" Republican Shelby who's holding the whole government hostage)
PFAW's Keegan Complains About Shelby's Hold: 'Obstruction' Reaches A 'New Low' Keegan went on to say that Shelby "better watch out" because "Carly Fiorina's sheep may want to have a few words with him."
Instaputz: This is Fucking Retarded - The New Yorker - “Rahm felt very, very strongly that it was a mistake to prosecute the 9/11 people in the federal courts, and that it was picking an unnecessary fight with the military-commission people,” - story says Emanuel’s opposition was driven in part by concerns that the decision would alienate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect - What the White House Didn't Learn from the Obama Campaign - the role of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel - victory begets victory (and defeat begets defeat) (this guy is really stupid)
2010 Top Ten "Dubious Polling" Awards (Strategic Vision +Nate Silver included)
Republican governor reverses course on stimulus cash; requests education funds - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room (Sanford)
John McCain, no more the iconoclast - washingtonpost.com (Dana Milbank, WaPo wanker, cries for McCain)
Disemboweler Jon Stewart Eviscerates Blogosphere (video)
The entire UNEDITED Bill O'Reilly-Jon Stewart interview was much different than the 10 minute heavily-edited segments you saw on tv. Seriously, if you're a fan of Jon Stewart you will like it and if you hate O'Reilly you'll hate him more after watching it. (link inside)
Daily Kos: Tom Tancredo Kicks Off Teabagger Convention With Some Old Time Racism ... asserting that Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”
Why Question Time Is Right for Obama, House GOPers and Washington -- Politics Daily
Peggy Noonan: Question Time Isn't the Answer - WSJ.com In the age of terror, America needs sober, bipartisan leadership (the crazy dolphin Jesus lady weighs in, because Repubs are SO bipartisan)
Paterson Sex Scandal In The Works? Media Abuzz About Possible 'Bombshell' Story
Daily Kos: Harold Ford Confused on New York Geography AGAIN (Harold Ford is a born liar)
Palin e-mails reveal a powerful ‘first dude’ - Politics- msnbc.com In Sarah Palin administration, her spouse was active in state business
EDITORIAL: Guns decrease murder rates - Washington Times In Washington, the best defense is self-defense (we need a gun-stimulus)

Krugman - Fiscal Scare Tactics - NYTimes.com (after running up $10 trillion in deficits, Republicans have a new evil)
The Gavel » Blog Archive » A Welcome Step In The Right Direction
Unemployment Rate Drop Is Good News But It's Likely To Rise Again
Firedoglake » Late Night: Remind Me Who The “Barbarians” at the Gate Are Again? - . “Our goal is to grow annual compensation expense at a slower rate than revenues.” - And someone needs to point out to the sanctimonious D.C. remoras like John Boehner, once he’s done fellating the Wall Street fat cat donors for campaign cash, that gluttony is a sin. (America at a tipping point?)
Is Toyota too arrogant?- MSN Money - From blaming Americans to being slow to apologize, Toyota is bungling its response in every way
Name change: ‘Dynamite Prize in Economics’ « Real-World Economics Review Blog
Born Poor? | Santa Fe Reporter Santa Fe economist Samuel Bowles says you better get used to it (educated stupid)

Medical groups assail patenting of human genes - USATODAY.com ACLU attorney Sandra Park. "We're arguing that isolating it does not make it patentable. It's a natural phenomenon, and the Supreme Court has always said natural phenomena are not patentable."
A Don's Life by Mary Beard - Times Online - WBLG: University cuts, redundancies - and bye-bye palaeography at King's College London University cuts, redundancies - and bye-bye palaeography at King's College London

Books - ‘The Trauma Myth,’ by Susan A. Clancy - Review - NYTimes.com - The Trauma Myth (sexual abuse found not traumatic)
Sexual abuse - Salon.com Susan Clancy discusses her controversial theory, and how an industry designed to help children may hurt them - Clancy's previous book, "Abducted," was a much-debated attack on repressed memory ... Repression is a psychiatric myth ... sexual abuse victims need to hear loud and clear that what happened to you is what happens to most people
Rind et al. controversy - Wikipedia
Mentally disabled 'self-advocates' oppose use of word 'retarded' - washingtonpost.com
David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D.: 20 New Anticancer Rules
My Life With Death

BBC News - Microsoft to patch 17-year-old computer bug

020410
AFP: US doing 'scientific research' to boost interrogations (leading the world in "research" on effective torture while forbidding "abusive interrogation techniques" - just "enhanced" ones)
Islamic Justice: 16-Year-Old Girl Lashed 101 Times For Conceiving After Rape - Her rapist was pardoned by the elders
U.S. missionaries charged with kidnapping in Haiti - CNN.com
Haiti’s Children and the Adoption Question - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
Dominican official: I warned U.S. church leader about Haitian kids - CNN.com
Whatever Things Are True: the Good, the Bad and the Beautiful in the World of International Adoption: A Look at the Changing International Adoption Landscape
UPDATE 1-Greek taxmen kick off wave of strikes against austerity | Reuters * Tax officials strike over pay squeeze (always freeze the pay of workers to get yourself out of a banker-caused debt-crisis)(in America, they wouldn't even have jobs)

Call a Convention (Constitutional Convention: Our Congress is broken. Even at a moment of extraordinary crisis, Members spend an endless amount of time simply raising campaign cash. We need Congress to focus; to address the problems that burden America; to do its job.)
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: McGOP: The Virtues and Vices of Sameness (the dKos Republicans are idiots poll)
O’Reilly, Rove go nuts attacking DK/R2000 poll on crazy beliefs of Republican voters - Daily Kos TV (beta)
ISS - ANALYSIS: Southerners a stronghold of far-right views in Republican Party
Harold Meyerson - A jobs lesson from the New Dealers - washingtonpost.com
PostPartisan - John McCain's errors in judgment (when will they realize he's just a bitter nacissistic asshole?)
Hullabaloo: digby: It's All They Know - The majority (57%) are worried that there will be too much government regulation of business (and Fox is the most trusted name in "news")
Public Health-Care Spending to Hit Milestone - WSJ.com (public=private spending)
Did You Watch Jon Stewart on the O'Reilly Factor? | Comedy Central Insider Blog
Ron Suskind: Articles: January 1, 2003: Why Are These Men Laughing? (Rove flashback: . "We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!") ("fucking retarded")

Toyota Recall: Did Toyota Hide Life-Saving Information? - ABC News
State Farm cancels thousands of Fla. policies - Personal finance- msnbc.com 125,000 customers to be cut during hurricane season
Calculated Risk: Option ARM Recast Update (the coming wave of loan meltdowns, as big as subprime, next year: another crash?)
Jobless Claims Still Gaining; Productivity Up 6 Percent - CNBC - The economy grew at a 5.7 percent pace in the fourth quarter, its fastest clip in six years.
CBS News Lays Off Dozens in New Round of Cuts - NYTimes.com (that would be "News")
DEMON SHEEP Ad (VIDEO): Carly Fiorina Campaign Attacks Primary Opponent With Epic, Terrifying Video
imgur: The Bosses of the Senate: how is was, and will be again
A Progressive Tax: It's Not Socialism, It's Correctionism | CommonDreams.org The result is a system in which one man (hedge fund manager John Paulson in 2007) can make more money than the total of the salaries of every police officer, firefighter, and public school teacher in Chicago, while another man stands hungry in the cold. And any attempt to fix the system is called socialism.
Perry v. Schwarzenegger Trial Re-enactment

Editorial - The Defense Budget - NYTimes.com
Senate Report: 'Dirty Money' Still Entering U.S.
Kevin Warsh: “No Firm Should Be Too Big To Fail” « The Baseline Scenario

New York Officials Bar Shackling of Youths in State Custody - NYTimes.com (prison-state America)
The Whale Whisperer: Astonishing bond between diver and Scar the giant sperm whale | Mail Online
The Union Official Site | World’s Premier Artiforg Technology (artificial organs for you!)
Obama Administration Knew Foreclosure Program Wasn't Working Right, Did Nothing (HAMP: the program designed to fail, failed, just like they knew it would)
Summers’s role questioned as US economic policy shifts - The Boston Globe Obama adviser fights talk of waning power (Larry "FAIL" Summers, failed)
Ex-BofA chief Lewis charged with fraud - Feb. 4, 2010

The Cygnus Bubble - Natural or Artificial? - Dyson sphere
Basics - Abstract Thoughts Prompt Literal Physical Responses - NYTimes.com - participants’ bodies subliminally acted out the metaphors embedded in how we commonly conceptualized the flow of time ... “How we process information is related not just to our brains but to our entire body,”
Giving the 'unconscious' a voice - health - 03 February 2010 - New Scientist
Millennium's Longest Solar Eclipse As Seen From Space (VIDEO)
Young leopard gets a prickly reception as it tries to eat a porcupine | Mail Online
Chris Weller, British Man, Turns House Into Reptile Aquarium (video)
Panel Suggests 100 Ways New York’s Buildings Can Be Greener - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Embrace Life - always wear your seat belt

Document: Victim impact statement of girl in Misty Series | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
Victim of Child Pornography Wants Collectors to Pay - NYTimes.com
The Racial Politics of Riverdale: Why an Interracial Kiss Is Still a Big Deal - ComicsAlliance

BBC News - 'Internet addiction' linked to depression, says study
Grantbridge Street & other misadventures: Roy Thomas and Alex Nino. Harlan Ellison's Repent, Harlequin! said the Tick Tock Man.
Op-Ed Contributor - Microsoft’s Creative Destruction - NYTimes.com
Become a Gmail Master Redux - Gmail - Lifehacker
Google Map Buddy Generates High Resolution, Full Size Area Maps - Google Maps - Lifehacker
Augmented Reality Software
IE Flaw Makes local Files Public (going from worst to worstest)
Cisco backdoor still open | NetworkWorld.com Community IBM researcher at Black Hat says opening for Feds exposes us (NSA backdoor would never be compromised by hackers, would it?)

020310
Iran Says It Sent Animals Into Space - NYTimes.com (rat, turtles and worms in space)
The Harvard Law Record - Harvard Law student detained, deported by Israel Clinical student was entering country to perform human rights research
Man Denied French Citizenship Because Wife Wears Veil (well, actually, he forced her to do that)
Marijuana Laws | Cannabis | Amsterdam | Dutch Pot
Karl Eikenberry Papers: US Afghan Ambassador's Report Warned Against Troop Escalation
Shift seen on role of military 'mentors' - Usatoday.com (Obama loves his corrupt Republican daddy-figures)
Jon Stewart Takes Aim At Hamas's Anti-Semitic Cartoons (well, let's see the other side)

Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com ("for the best democracy money can buy")

More Question Time, Please | Mother Jones (should have tried this a year ago)
Evan Bayh's Budget Hypocrisy | The American Prospect What Evan Bayh says he wants out of the budget is less important than how he actually votes.
The Washington Monthly: Gender Gap.... One of the more persistent trends in recent elections is the gender gap -- more women have been voting Democratic than men (Republicans: "Women sometimes need a little more handholding, or they need their friends to help them make a decision.")
McCain appears to shift on 'don't ask, don't tell' (what a terrible old man)
The grisly truth about the Super Bowl abortion ad. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine - The grisly truth about the Super Bowl abortion ad (Christians+big media at work)
Media figures argue that $250,000 in income is "not wealthy" | Media Matters for America (not for them, at least, but screw the other 98% of the country)
Facts and Data Be Damned | Talking Points Memo - "Despite his roots, Obama struggles to show he's connected to middle class" (crap from WaPo)
Evan Bayh's Budget Hypocrisy | The American Prospect What Evan Bayh says he wants out of the budget is less important than how he actually votes (the Senator from Wellpoint and lobbyist for billionaires)

U.S. May Lose 824,000 Jobs as Employment Data Revised: Analysis - Bloomberg.com (optomistic estimates!)
Looking back, ahead at federal taxing, spending - usatoday.com
Podcast: To Stay Or Walk Away - Planet Money Blog : NPR
As Values Slide, More Weigh Walking Away From Mortgages - NYTimes.com (what would business do?)
When Will It Be "Morning in America"? (unemployment: after the long, long night)
Daily Kos: 'Volcker Rule' Seems Headed for Senate Fizzle (what financial regulation)
AIG Bonuses In 2010 Total $100 Million (rewarding abject failure)
AIG Bonuses: Pay Czar Calls AIG Bonuses 'Outrageous' But Legal (because, you know, Larry "Fail" Summers didn't want any conditions on the bailout)
Ambac hires Blackstone for restructuring - sources | Reuters (won't get the AIG treatment, should have failed sooner)
Justice Braun Orders Auction of Riverton Houses in Harlem - NYTimes.com Riverton, like a number of complexes during the real estate boom, was bought for top dollar in 2005 by a company led by the developer Laurence Gluck, who had a plan to increase profits by replacing tenants in rent-stabilized apartments with market-rate tenants (another Tishman-Speyer-type project with a business plan based on bullying: $12.5 million mortgaged to $240 million: captialism at work)
For 2011, FTA Shifts Focus Away from Project Cost-Effectiveness Index and Towards Local Financing Commitment « The Transport Politic

Open letter to Senior Editors of peer-review journals publishing in the field of stem cell biology | EuroStemCell
BBC News - Journal stem cell work 'blocked' Stem cell experts say they believe a small group of scientists is effectively vetoing high quality science from publication in journals - "unreasonable or obstructive" reviews (high school cliques in science) OB
Industrial-Strength Fungus - time
NASA Spots Mysterious Space Debris (giant x-wing fighter)
Do not adjust your sets: solar storms could cause blackouts at Olympics - Science, News - The Independent
'Henrietta Lacks': A Donor's Immortal Legacy : NPR
Bias towards negativity predicts vulnerability to stress (solution: therapy to make people notice negative things less!)

Disoriented on the North Sea: Saved from the Ice by a Web Cam - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
NYCityMap • DoITT • City-Wide GIS

Brooklyn Cop: Crime Statistics Are Lies - Gothamist After the confrontation, he was deemed unstable and committed to a psychiatric unit at Jamaica Center for more than six days—a move he told the Post was payback for coming forward.
Wis. women avoid jail in glue-related revenge plot - washingtonpost.com (and if they had been guys, what do you think would have happened?)
YouTube - Goose Attacks Pro Kayak Angler Drew Gregory
Recession has people switching to cheaper liquor | cleveland.com
The 6 Weirdest Things Women Do to Their Vaginas | News & Politics | AlterNet
Amelia's Magazine | art, fashion, music, earth
The Millions: The Magisterial Goal
Cotton Patch Gospel
YouTube - Pink Floyd breathe
My friend's cousin is a vet and yesterday she encountered the biggest cat ever! : pics (+comments +extra pics in comments)
play3393 comments on My friend's cousin is a vet and yesterday she encountered the biggest cat ever!

Eugene Hsu: the future of the web
Facebook Is a Cybercrime Danger Zone - Yahoo! News
Facebook 'doppelganger' craze is illegal (violates copyright, supposedly)
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Defends Flash, Warns HTML5 Will Throw The Web “Back To The Dark Ages Of Video” (yeah, sure)
Did Google Just Multi-Punch Apple In The Face?
Amazon Is Said to Buy Touch-Screen Company - NYTimes.com
Open talk about racial and cultural differences (stormfront on reddit)

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New Details Emerge About US Hikers Bauer, Fattal and Shourd in Iranian Prison - AOL News (treated just like the US treats "terrorists")
Jesuit Priest Admits Molesting Youth: Germany Shaken By 'Systematic' Sexual Abuse at Berlin Catholic School - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International Germany Shaken By 'Systematic' Sexual Abuse at Berlin Catholic School (world's largest pedophile ring)
Why must agnostics be obliged to teach faith? - The Irish Times - Tue, Feb 02, 2010 (have to be Catholic to get teaching job, and that worked out so well last time)
South Australian Government gags internet debate | News.com.au (Oz censorship worse than China)

Daily Kos: The 2010 Comprehensive Daily Kos/Research 2000 Poll of Self-Identified Republicans (yes, they are really that crazy: Do you believe ACORN stole the 2008 election? Yes: 21; Do you believe Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President than Barack Obama? Yes: 53; Do you believe the birth control pill is abortion? Yes: 34 No: 48)
Large Portion Of GOP Thinks Obama Is Racist, Socialist, Non-U.S. Citizen: Poll

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Michael O'Hanlon's "testosterone-laden tough guys" (one of the worst people in the world +"alternative lifestyle")
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com What exactly did Bush and Cheney do wrong? - In those few instances where Obama has rejected the Bush/Cheney template, the outrage and hysteria from Democratic and media voices is pervasive, and is growing louder.
Eunomia » All Of This Has Happened Before (stories, not facts)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect The Eternal Adolescence Of Political Identity.
Palin Calls For Rahm Emanuel To Be Fired (takes one to know one)
The Washington Post sinks lower | Media Matters for America (just when you thought it wasn't possible)
Truthdig - The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News

Rising FHA default rate foreshadows a crush of foreclosures - washingtonpost.com About 9.1 percent of FHA borrowers had missed at least three payments as of December, up from 6.5 percent a year ago, the agency's figures show.
Suburbia's Discontents | Mother Jones
Covalence SA » Technology Covalence Ethical Ranking 2009 for the Technology sector (IBM: #1; Apple: #24)
Travel Web sites win rollback of additional taxes | Reuters won the first of several pending legal battles to roll back tax assessments by California cities that claim they owe tens of millions of dollars in occupancy taxes
sNokia - Nokia Q4 2009 net sales EUR 12.0 billion, non-IFRS EPS EUR 0.25: Smartphone market share 40%, and 39% global market share
Nokia, Motorola win smartphone share; outlook weighs - Yahoo! News Analysts said the only clear market share loser among top smartphone vendors was Apple, which sold 8.7 million iPhones in the quarter, missing analysts forecasts. Shares in Apple slipped 3.6 percent.

Abstinence-only programs might work, study says - washingtonpost.com
The Republicans' Reagan Amnesia - The Daily Beast The resurgent GOP wants a Gipper purity test. Does the party faithful know he raised taxes, grew the federal government, and granted amnesty to illegal immigrants?
Vancouver's experiment with helping addicts get high. (1) - By Matthew Power - Slate Magazine
And The Choir Sings On - From small rural churches to center city arenas, voices rise in a joyful noise for the Lord. But AIDS has cast a pall of silence over the black gospel music community - Men, mostly ages 20 to 40, are being infected and dying in a deafening silence perpetuated by their congregations and the industry for whom they have spent the better part of their lives performing.

Mass drug overdose – none dead - health - 01 February 2010 - New Scientist No ill effects were reported by hundreds of volunteers who took part in a mass-overdose stunt around the world to demonstrate that homeopathic remedies are nothing more than sugar pills.
Eagle Cam | WVEC.com | News for Hampton Roads, Virginia

Photos of my models - a set on Flickr
The Golden Girls: How One TV Show Turned A Generation Of American Boys Into Homosexuals | ChristWire
Spudworks - The Abridged Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand: engineer of souls by Anthony Daniels - The New Criterion A critical account of the "Chernyshevsky of individualism."
Rachelle Gardner, Literary Agent: The Top Ten Query Mistakes

The iPad’s Closed System: Sometimes I Hate Being Right | Popular Science
Reddit Clone in 10 minutes and 91 lines of Clojure | Best In Class

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BBC News - Israel reprimands top officers over UN compound strike Israel has revealed it has reprimanded two top army officers for authorising an artillery attack which hit a UN compound in Gaza last year (just in case you had any doubts about how Israel operates, they used white phosphorus on the fucking UN)
Suicide bomber kills 41 in Baghdad - latimes.com Iraqi police say a female bomber detonated an explosives belt among pilgrims
Ciudad Juarez Shooting: 13 Young Students Killed At Party In Mexico Border City (US-sponsored drug-wars at work)
Kim Jong-il's regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine Kim Jong-il's regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought (basically, what America would be if the militaristic, authoritarian Right had its way +which is why they are such little people)
Print: America's Secret Afghan Prisons
Special Operations Chiefs Quietly Sway Afghanistan Policy « The Washington Independent - Two senior military officers from the shadowy world of Special Operations are playing a large and previously unreported role in shaping the Obama administration’s Afghanistan and Pakistan strategy (prisons? what prisons?)

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Nostalgia for Bush/Cheney radicalism
Reports: DOJ Torture Memo Probe Clears Yoo, Bybee | TPMMuckraker (approving torture just "bad judgment")
Daily Kos: Remember when Petraeus could do no wrong?
Dems Say Sen. Ben Nelson's Deal Was Setback For Health Care | TPMDC - Senate leadership inked a deal in December to win over Nelson (D-NE), allowing him to insert pro-life language in the measure and to secure federal funding for the cost of any Medicaid expansion in what has now been dubbed the "Cornhusker kickback." (blue-dog conservadems killed HRC) s
Gibbs: Dems Will Never Solve Our Problems Without GOP Help | The Plum Line (Atrios: "Dems think "you put us in power but we're powerless" is a winning message.")(Obama's bi-partisan failure +Gibbs is really looking like an idiot)
Senate Aides Identify Key Roadblock To Passing Reform Via Reconciliation | The Plum Line (themselves)
FT.com / Mergermarket - Volcker rule unlikely to move forward in Senate, lawmakers say “Chris is retiring so he wants to end his career with an important regulatory reform bill and he wants to make the bill bipartisan,” (ie, FAIL)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Parties at ground zero For the first time in recent history, the lobbying, grassroots and advertising budget of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has surpassed the spending of BOTH the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee.
Jack Goldsmith - Can we stop the global cyber arms race? - washingtonpost.com (un-full disclosure: Goldsmith's service in the Bush Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (which Obama refuses to replace)
The Seminal » Washington Post’s Disclosure Failure in Jack Goldsmith’s Cyberwarfare Op-Ed
Administration Proposals Seek Broad Changes to ‘No Child Left Behind’ - NYTimes.com (no child left un-screwed)
SCOTUSblog » The new world of campaign finance law Clearly operating on the premise that the Supreme Court last week changed the entire legal landscape for money in politics, the D.C. Circuit Court appeared on Wednesday to be leaning strongly toward giving even more freedom to campaign groups that are set up to operate independently of candidates and parties.
CNN's Kiran Chetry Spars With Orszag Over 'Middle Class' Tax Cut: Chetry: You also talk about letting taxes expire for families that make over $250,000. Some would argue that in some parts of the country that is middle class (In 2006, just 1.5 percent of the U.S. public lived in households where the income was $250,000 or higher: guess who makes more than $250K?)
Tearing down the Reagan myth -- now more than ever | Philly | 01/31/2010
Sarah Palin Used PAC to Buy Her Own Book -- Politics Daily (2.5 million printed)
Round-up: SarahPAC disclosures John P. Coale, reportedly one of Palin's close advisers and the husband of Palin's Fox News Channel colleague, Greta van Susteren. John Coale is also reportedly a part of The Church of Scientology, and we wondered what Scientology would want with Palin until we read this memo obtained by Gawker (getting even creepier)

Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal, Department by Department - NYTimes.com (where the money is going)
Will Obama’s Middle Class Tax Cuts Impact You? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
Matthew Yglesias » Unemployment Forever years worth of “recovery” during which the unemployment rate will be at what would normally be deemed recession levels (jobs are for suckers)
Eschaton When they passed the stimulus a year ago they projected that WITHOUT THE STIMULUS unemployment would drop below 6% by the end of 2012 (trapped in their own bullshit)
Swiss warn UBS bank could collapse - top bank UBS could collapse if sensitive talks with the United States over a high-profile tax fraud investigation fall through.
Obama's $3.8 Trillion Budget Includes Record Deficit (Bush's $12 trillion off the table)
Knives Are Drawn for Proposed Budget Cuts - WSJ.com (yeah, WSJ, you mean Repubican big-spenders hate Obama's ideas)
Frank Luntz Pens Memo To Kill Financial Regulatory Reform (Republicans at work; they've learned nothing from experience)
FT Alphaville » The latest Fed-Web offering Is a training site for bank directors. It looks like this: “Many people who are asked to serve on bank boards have little training or experience to prepare them for their new roles,” (banking 101 for casino operators)
Colorado Springs cuts into services considered basic by many - The Denver Post This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric (no new taxes!) (hey, wait, we thought the streets paid for themselves!)
‘The War Against Suburbia’ - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.com The Obama administration’s city-focused, environmentalist “war against suburbia” helps explain the Democrats’ recent electoral setbacks from Virginia to Massachusetts, a commentator writes. Urban-dense, “smart growth” policies may not be smart politics (yeah, bullshit; that's why he spent 100's of billions on re-inflating the housing bubble; should have spent the stimulus on building new houses)
Five myths about America's credit card debt - washingtonpost.com (deregulation!)
5 Top Industry Sectors Predicted To Show Growth In Employment | Fortune Watch (consulting! taking care of old people!)
Toyota loses $21B in market share in one week, plans media blitz this week — Autoblog

electoral college reform: 50 states with equal population - Ends overrepresentation of small states and underrepresention of large states in presidental voting and in the US Senate.
Religiousity by State, from Mississippi to Vermont, with avg iq, poverty, murder, theft, divorce, health, generosity and conversatism (PNG) (stingy New England is going to Hell)

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch: Copenhagen - striking accord? given the way Copenhagen turned out, what basis does anyone have for believing that there is appetite among all significant parties for a stronger agreement with at least a whiff of legal obligation?
From Fish to Infinity - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Spray-on miracle could revolutionise manufacturing - Science, News - The Independent It sounds too good to be true: a non-toxic spray invisible to the human eye that protects almost any surface against dirt and bacteria,
Gingko Biloba and other ‘Natural’ Remedies May Be Dangerous : Discovery News
Silicone implants that generate 'leccy invented for US spooks • The Register a new kind of silicone implant which can generate electrical power from the movements of the bodily area in which it is placed (electric boobs! reduce carbon footprint!)
Teenager invents low-frequency radio for underground communications -- Engadget
Foamy Invention Could Save Energy and Lives | LiveScience inserting two pieces of her composite metal foam behind the bumper of a car traveling 28 mph, the impact would feel the same to passengers as impact traveling at only 5 mph.
Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? | Video on TED.com
How to Survive a 35,000-Foot Fall - Plane Crash Survival Guide - Popular Mechanics
Barefoot running: How humans ran comfortably and safely before the invention of shoes
Why College Grads Are Happier in Marriage - Pat Wingert - Newsweek.com New research shows women with degrees are luckier in love (in the 50's, "Men needed and wanted someone who knew less.")

Hundreds of Mostly Tiny Quakes Are Rattling Yellowstone Park - NYTimes.com
Yellowstone supervolcano getting ready to blow its cork: 2009 - over 500 Earthquakes at Yellowstone - 1,608 quakes since Jan. 17
ksl.com - Plumbing of Yellowstone supervolcano larger than first thought

Mayor Wants Jesus Prayers and Christian Community | NBC Los Angeles Mayor and city council member alienate Muslims in Lancaster (because the Jews, atheists, UU'ers and pagans are totally ok with this)
The Wild Hunt » McCollum v. California and other Pagan News of Note (meanwhile, Pagans working overturn state-recognized religions, which are limited to five)
YouTube - Avatar Review (Part 1 of 2) (RedLetterMedia: the guy who brought you the Phantom Menace review)
Shouts & Murmurs: Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers : The New Yorker

Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back with no regrets | Living - cleveland.com - - cleveland.com
iPhone-style App Store Limitation Makes iPad A Tough Sell - HotHardware - It's preposterous to imagine Microsoft or any other company successfully launching such a scheme around a 'traditional' computer and it's by no means certain that Apple's potential customers are jumping up and down for the privilege, either (you've been Jobsed)
65 Open Source Downloads That Could Change Your Life — Datamation.com
The Best Google Chrome Extensions - Reviews by PC Magazine
Full-Web Experience? No Thanks, Give Me Symbian Any Day | Symbian-Guru.com
V21.0.045 Now Available for the N97 via Nokia Software Updater
your.flowingdata / Capture your life in data.

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Game Changer: China Plans to Open Military Bases Worldwide | Antemedius
Robert Fisk: Why does the US turn a blind eye to Israeli bulldozers? - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent Most of the West Bank is under rule which amounts to apartheid by paper
YouTube - BBC Panorama - A Walk In The Park [ Part 1/3 ] (banned in the US)
Firedoglake » Gibbs: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Likely to be Executed — Why Even Have a Trial? (more stupid from Gibbs)
Tikkun Daily Blog » Blog Archive » Member of the Swiss Political Party that Pushed for Minaret Ban Converts to Islam
The Jihadist Next Door - NYTimes.com
BBC News - 'Super-fast broadband' in UK homes by 2017 - Tories (meanwhile Comcast makes sure you have the slowest/most expensive internet in the world)

Roger Ailes On "This Week": Defends Glenn Beck, Insists Fox Is No Longer At War With Obama (Satan on TV)
Krugman Hits Ailes for Fox's 'Deliberate Misinformation' on Health Care Bill | Video Cafe
Scurrilous Videos Besmirch, Enrage Forum, Leaders, World | The Yes Men
The Yes Men At Davos: 'World Leaders Pledge Strategy to End Poverty Now' | Crooks and Liars
Sen. Al Franken Announces Bill to Keep Foreign Interests Out of Elections | Crooks and Liars
Here it is, the Real Deal Holyfield QDR | Center for a New American Security (Quadrennial Defense Review)
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Why the QDR Matters
RNC Passes Compromise On 'Purity' Resolutions | TPMDC (end of moderation in Rethug party)
The elaborate tricks John Edwards used to keep his affair secret. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine The elaborate tricks John Edwards used to keep his affair secret—and why they failed.
Daily Kos: It's the Stupid Sex, Stupid - Bristol is the perfect spokesperson for this campaign. Because even though she had sex, and we all know it, there’s no law that says she can’t pretend she didn’t have sex and that her vows of abstinence won’t be true in the future.)
Why Aren't Conservatives Funny? - Teabuggers - Gawker
In article about GOP hoping for NE resurgence, NYT only quotes GOP | Media Matters for America (another Adam Nagourny masterpiece)
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Democrats Need a Proactive Messaging Strategy
Whitman disavows "proud racist" councilman | California Politics | Los Angeles Times (eMeg attracting racists?)
Conviction angers anti-abortion militants | Raw Story

Editorial - No Jobs, No Recovery - NYTimes.com
Bankers Put Focus on ‘Real Economy’ - NYTimes.com (you know, instead of the banker casino economy)
Op-Ed Contributor - How to Reform Our Financial System - NYTimes.com By Paul Volcker (imagine if Obama had put PV in charge a year ago instead of Larry "Fail" Summers?)
Bailout cop Barofsky says TARP still not working - Jan. 31, 2010 special inspector general Neil Barofsky said that the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, has failed to boost bank lending as well as halt the spread of foreclosures -- two key aims of the sprawling program (another program designed to FAIL)
TARP Watchdog Neil Barofsky: Government Bailout Has Increased Risk Of Economic Crisis- "we are still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car," Barofsky wrote.
Calculated Risk: TARP Inspector General: Government Programs "risk re-inflating bubble" (always was the plan, based on the delusion there was no housing bubble)
Formula Shows Why It's So Hard to Cut Jobless Rate - NYTimes.com - Growth would have to equal 5 percent for all of 2010 just to lower the average jobless rate for the year by 1 percentage point (IOW, unemployment will be 10% in November)
dear-wall-street-were-sorry: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
Tishman Speyer Walked Away From Its Stuyvesant Town, Peter Cooper Village Mortgage. Why Can't You? (their credit won't go down, either)
Switzerland warns against using stolen bank data - Yahoo! News
Tampa Bay rail advocates scramble for ways to connect with proposed high-speed line - St. Petersburg Times - But how will people get from their homes to the downtown Tampa station? (cars!)

The End of Influence - By Brad DeLong and Stephen Cohen | Foreign Policy
Back Matter for Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong (2010), "The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money" (New York: Basic Books) - Notes, etc., to "The End of Influence"
The Great Leap
The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | How America Can Rise Again | James Fallows (besides giving up its military?)
At last there's proof: 44% of Americans are crazy - James Fallows
Keeping America's Edge > Publications > National Affairs
The Rise of the Rest | Newsweek.com
Information Processing: Contested Modernity - summary of Martin Jacques' recent book When China Rules the World
Marginal Revolution: Why do the Chinese save so much?
Project Syndicate - Will China Rule the World?
The BRICs are Rich, But Poor
TheBurningPlatform.com » Economy » Jobs Of The Future - a country that has transformed from a young, healthy society that produced capital goods and built things with support from financial services, into a sickly nation that has outsourced production and filled the gap with high finance.
The Growing Underclass: Jobs Gone Forever - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
Talk about the adjustable peg, man! « The Edge of the American West
FT.com / Weekend columnists / Tim Harford - What the wealth of nations is really built upon

Change in space for NASA: Renting the Right Stuff - Yahoo! News
Flickr Photo Download: Big Brothers: Satellites by Nation (Luxemborg has 2)
YouTube - Flight 1549 3D Reconstruction, Hudson River Ditching Jan 15, 2009
Kids good at handling deployment of military parents, study shows - CNN.com (a study by the military, of course)
Canadian climate research calls for radical strategy to reflect sun's rays (block out the fucking sun)
The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | What Makes a Great Teacher? | Amanda Ripley
Positive predictors of teacher effectiveness (PDF)
Grit Scale: what makes a good teacher (PDF)
YouTube - Change your Mind Change your Brain: The Inner Conditions...
A Lifetime Penalty: Spinal Cord Injuries in High School Football - TIME Each year, about 1 in 100,000 high school football players suffers a serious spinal-cord injur
Dead Sea Scroll dating now possible - Politiken.dk
Drugs companies face deeper cuts in research - Times Online

Voltaire’s Garden : The New Yorker

A FAQ about HillBuzz vs. Rumproast (and Me) | Rumproast
Actor Rip Torn charged with breaking into Conn. bank while drunk and carrying a loaded gun - latimes.com
YouTube - Rip Torn vs Norman Mailer - the infamous "Maidstone" brawl - UNCUT!
Tough Guys Are on Time: Rip Torn on Males, Mailer, McCain And That Barfight in Lakeville | The New York Observer

Amazon to Macmillan: You Win (for Now) (ebooks to cost as much as real books)
Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs | Epicenter | Wired.com (from "all your media are belong to us" Jobs)
AT&T: Synaptic Storage as a Service ($.35/GB/mo)
Firefox for Mobile Makes Its Debut
Fan maintenance - oiling bearings for fun and profit!
How to transfer photos from a digital camera to an iPhone/iPod touch (it's "easy" and you just need Joikuspot)

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Can Obama's Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Be Saved? - Time
New Files Show Margaret Thatcher Was At Odds With US On Iran
World hunger and the locavores | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters

Health Bill Stalled, Obama Juggles an Altered Agenda - NYTimes.com
#HealthCareFAIL: How The Dems Botched Their Signature Legislation | TPMDC
Hullabaloo: digby: What Happened? - allowing Max Baucus to drag the damn thing out so long that everyone in the country was so appalled by the political process they couldn't stand even thinking about it anymore.
FDL Action » Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: Senators Lied About Supporting Public Option
Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com (looking forward, not backwards: whitewash)
The Seminal » David Margolis: Hatchet Man for Holder/Obama on OPR Torture Memos Report (just "poor judgment, no laws broken)
Firedoglake » Come Saturday Morning: It’s Official — Waterboarding Has No Justification Whatsoever
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Susan Collins spreads central myth about the Constitution - This notion that the protections of the Bill of Rights specifically and the Constitution generally apply only to the Government's treatment of American citizens is blatantly, undeniably false -- for multiple reasons -- yet this myth is growing, as a result of being centrally featured in "War on Terror" propaganda (+Susan Collins is really, really stupid)
David Brody: The New Star of Must See TV: President Obama
Daily Kos: Fox "News" Gutlessly and Unprofessionally Turned And Fled
BBC News - Why do people often vote against their own interests? ("It's like a French Revolution in reverse in which the workers come pouring down the street screaming more power to the aristocracy.") (+stories, not facts)(+media is addicted to stories)
Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad May Be Based On Falsehood
I Just Remembered Chris Matthews Was White - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Summers: ‘Statistical Recovery and Human Recession’ - Davos Live - WSJ
Calculated Risk: Summers: "Statistical recovery and a human recession"
Roubini Calls U.S. Growth ‘Dismal and Poor,’ Predicts Slowing - Bloomberg.com

China Is Leading the Race to Make Renewable Energy - NYTimes.com
Is fusion success in sight? - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com
The Reference Frame: NIF: fusion breakthrough in 2010?
Pictures: "Mythical" Temple Found in Peru - Human Sacrifice
Rome's Ancient Aqueduct Found : Discovery News

Populism: Just Like Racism! - Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - True/Slant (David Brooks: elite racism)
Arabian Psycho By Makhmoud Al-Lis Easton

In their words: Experts weigh in on Mac vs. PC security | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
Official Google Enterprise Blog: ?Modern browsers for modern applications

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Emptywheel » The Poodle’s Prevarications
Iraq inquiry: Second UN resolution was not necessary, says Lord Goldsmith | UK news | guardian.co.uk Former attorney general admitted to changing his mind over necessity of further justification for military action
The Seminal » Does the US Still Maintain Secret Prisons in Afghanistan? (look at this guy and tell me what you think)
Haiti, the earthquake, and my family : The New Yorker
The Globalist | Global Environment -- Haiti and the Dominican Republic: One Island, Two Worlds By Jared Diamond

Courts, Congress Shun Addressing Legality of Warrantless Eavesdropping | Threat Level | Wired.com

Washington Memo - Supreme Court Gets a Rare Rebuke, in Front of a Nation - NYTimes.com (and the NYT can't report the story, either)
Ezra Klein - Rahm Emanuel makes me very pessimistic about health-care reform (with good reason)
The Washington Monthly - Scream Bloody Murder (can't call the Repubs on obstructionism, too busy looking in the mirror)
Firedoglake » Orrin Hatch Threatens Obstruction If Democrats Try To Circumvent Obstruction
Sally Quinn's Washington | Media Matters for America (elite media village wanker)
Colbert Rips Republican Rebuttal To State Of The Union (video)
FDL Action » Obama Leads the Way on Lobbyist Transparency (+Daschle is a real sleezeball)
C-SPAN Video Player - President Speaks at GOP Retreat
Obama In The Lion's Den, Ctd - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Barack Obama: Why I Voted for This Guy - Grasping Reality with a Ten-Foot Trunk
Daily Kos: President Obama takes questions from House GOP In fact, to get a sense of just how effective President Obama was, Fox "News" cut off the Q&A session before it ended
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit The Senate took a vote on requiring Congress not to pass legislation that it can’t pay for. All 40 Republicans voted no (won't see this on Fox)
ManCrunch SuperBowl Ad rejected: Gay Dating Site Ad Denied By CBS (but Focus on the Family/anti-abortion A-OK)
Public Policy Polling: Palin Alaska Standing Falls
Abortion doc’s killer found guilty of murder - Crime & courts- msnbc.com Shooter convicted of first-degree culpability in death of Kansas physician

Economic Growth Accelerated in Fourth Quarter - NYTimes.com (even though jobs fell ... it was the bankers economny)

Bill and Melinda Gates Pledge $10 Billion in Call for Decade of Vaccines | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
BBC News - MMR scare doctor 'acted unethically', panel finds
Expert view: The media are equally guilty over the MMR vaccine scare | Science | The Guardian
Andrew Wakefield research exposed: the MMR investigation
Obama budget ends return-to-moon plan - Space- msnbc.com NASA to get $6 billion more, but for space station and commercialization
Was the moon created by a nuclear explosion on Earth? | Mail Online
Atoms and Molecules: Using magnetic toys as inspiration, researchers tease out structures of self-assembled clusters

Many Successful Gay Marriages Share an Open Secret - NYTimes.com - about 50 percent of those surveyed have sex outside their relationships, with the knowledge and approval of their partners.
CAPS Model Programs - Gay Couples Study (a sample of gay men (only) in the Bay area) | Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality
Monogamy - Wikipedia - Incidence of sexual monogamy
School system in Va. won't teach version of Anne Frank book - washingtonpost.com
Greylodge Podcasting Company and Occult Review
YouTube - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Movie Trailer

Wikileaks temporarily shuts down due to lack of funds | Media | guardian.co.uk
Save Wikileaks | Wikileaks - donate

Google mystery server runs 13% of active websites • The Register
IPad? That’s So 2002, Fujitsu Says - NYTimes.com
Your Friend's Ex-Girlfriend is Spreading a Virus on Facebook [WARNING]
70% of Employers Have Rejected Applicants Over Online Info
Strongest hint yet: Chrome OS to go touch | News | TechRadar UK
Adobe slams Apple for lack of Flash on iPad | News | TechRadar UK (your basic locked-down Apple product)
What's Missing from the Apple iPad? (most useful things)
ongoing by Tim Bray · Nothing Creative
iPad About « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
The iPad is a Comedy Gold Mine - CollegeHumor video

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Israeli companies excluded from bank’s investments

Poll: 83% of Speech Watchers Approve of Obama's State of the Union Proposals - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
The Bobblespeak Translations: State of the Union Address - President Barack Obama - Obama walks in, wearing a Nobel prize and carrying an iPad
NBC: Landrieu Plot Aimed To Test Sen's Response To Disabled Phone System | TPMMuckraker
Congress Hack Attack: House Member Web Sites Hacked With Anti-Obama Language
Giuliani falsely claims Obama never said "war" in State of the Union | Media Matters for America (Rudy 911)
YouTube - The Warriors (1979) Cyrus' Speech (what Obama should have said to the Republicans)
Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Huge Wave Of Good-Government Efforts
Leahy Slams Alito For 'Under Oath' Testimony To Committee (VIDEO) more damaging because it was an interference by the court in every election, rather than just one.
Obama State of the Union: Republican Response Frosty - Time
White House: Obama is right about Supreme Court decision - Mike Allen and Andy Barr - politico.com
Judge Orders 25-Year-Old O'Keefe To Live With His Parents | TPMMuckraker
Bachmann Backs Out Of Tea Party Convention
The Super Bowl Welcomes $2.8 Million Ad Buy From Hate Group Focus on the Family / Queerty
So what exactly is CBS' Super Bowl ad policy? | Media Matters for America (hate is ok, welcoming not)
Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad: an astonishingly bold stand / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

Immigrants More Likely to Have Jobs Than Native Born: Report | NBC Los Angeles Foreign-born residents put more into economy than they take out of it, according to report (California, and Republican heads explode everywhere)

Jobless Claims Drop Less Than Hoped; Durables Climb - CNBC (how's that job thing working out?)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect How Popular Should Tim Geithner Be? (Atrios: "I don't think it's a coincidence that the program which might have helped people and not banks was the one to fail, and fail predictably.")
Bernanke: There's No Housing Bubble to Go Bust - washingtonpost.com - October 27, 2005 (but Republican daddies are always right)
Emptywheel » The Word Not Spoken: Foreclosure
The US loan-mod fail | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters he crisis isn’t over and that both the housing and the banking sectors are going to get much worse.
Sen. Whitehouse To Oppose Bernanke Bernanke did not appear to "give a red-hot damn about the American public."
Geithner: ‘I had no role’ in an AIG cover up | Raw Story ("It kind of happened, like, by itself")
Wall Street Pay: Banks Devise Ways To Skirt Compensation Cuts
Ford Posts First Annual Profit In 4 Years, Pulling In $2.7B

Academics fight rise of creationism at universities | World news | The Guardian · More students believe Darwin got it wrong · Royal Society challenges 'insidious problem'
Aliens can't hear us, says astronomer | Science | guardian.co.uk
The Downside of High, Facts About Marijuana Use : The Nature of Things with David Suzuki : CBC-TV
Letters of Note: You're an idiot of the 33rd degree - In November of 1905, an enraged Mark Twain sent this superb letter to J. H. Todd, a patent medicine salesman who had just attempted to sell bogus medicine to the author

Digital Maps Reveal Hidden Geographies Of Sex And Religion - Maps - io9
Tiger Woods' Sex Fantasies 'Not Normal': Loredana Jolie (on the D-L?)
Aussie censor balks at bijou boobs • The Register

YouTube - The Sonics - Psycho a Go-Go
YouTube - OMC - How bizarre
YouTube - The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed
YouTube - Amerie - 1 Thing
YouTube - Shindig! #2 (1964) - [2of3]
YouTube - The B-52's - Rock Lobster (Original Live)

YouTube - Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News
iPad vs. Kindle vs. HP slate: a close look | Electronista
Anything the iPad can do, Linux can do better. - Computerworld Blogs
Apple Restriction Zone: Your Computer is Our Computer

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Government knew ‘no leg to stand on’ legally to go to war in Iraq - Telegraph Tony Blair and his ministers went to war in Iraq despite repeated warnings from senior Government advisers that they had “no leg to stand on” legally (sounds like you-know-who)
Britain 'complicit in mistreatment and possible torture' says UN | World news | guardian.co.uk Human rights report indicates clear evidence of UK role in secret detention of British Muslims
AP: Haiti govt gets 1 penny of US quake aid dollar - Yahoo! News
Settlers attack Palestinians to avenge West Bank outpost demolition - Haaretz - Israel News
BBC News - Rabbi arrested, suspected in West Bank mosque arson
Farewell to Yasser, The Times's driver: an unsung hero of the Iraq war - Times Online

Text - Text - Obama’s State of the Union Address - NYTimes.com
Top 10 Lines From Obama's State Of The Union Address
Samuel Alito At State Of The Union: 'That's Not True' (douchebag)
Chris Matthews: 'I Forgot Obama Was Black For An Hour' (and the rest of the time?) )
Photos -- Is Obama Keeping His Promises? - Newsweek
Organizing for America | BarackObama.com (from the guy who gave it away)
Editorial - Opposite of Bold - NYTimes.com
Media ignore Obama's accomplishments to claim he has "little to show for '09" | Media Matters for America (oh, he has lots to show, just ask the bankers)
Firedoglake » The People Have Spoken… And The Democrats Are Pretending They’re In A Tunnel.
Firedoglake » Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow on the Absurdity of the Spending Freeze
Emptywheel » The List of US Citizens Targeted for Killing (or Capture) shortlist of U.S. citizens specifically targeted for killing or capture by the JSOC, military officials said (in case you were feeling all hopey-changey)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding | Foreign Policy A study in "enhanced reporting techniques." (heh)

Calitics:: Oregon Voters Deliver Game-Changing Victory
Bruce Bartlett Is Convincing Me That We Need a VAT - Grasping Reality with Opposable Thumbs
Elizabeth Warren On The Daily Show: If We Don't Act 'The Game Really Is Over' (it's over)
Ezra Klein - Waiting for Barack - part of a pattern of conflict-aversion that the president's supporters have refused to acknowledge (the Great Compromiser)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
Confirmation News Network - Ryan Sager - Neuroworld - True/Slant

Alleged Landrieu Phone Bug Crew Emerged From World Of Conservative Campus Journalism | TPMMuckraker (Watergate Burlery 101)
Landrieu Phone Bugging Case: What Is The Pelican Institute? | TPMMuckraker
Breitbart: I Pay A Salary To Alleged Landrieu Plotter O'Keefe | TPMMuckraker (sweet irony)
Majikthise : Is this the same Stan Dai arrested for trying to bug Mary Landrieu's office?
Joseph Basel: Phone-tapping suspect and former U of M-Morris conservative editor - Minneapolis / St. Paul News - City Pages - The Blotter
Think Progress » Fox News Devastated Over Arrest Of ACORN Pimp, Says The Story Probably Needs ‘A Lot Of Context’
American Zombie: Spy vs. Senator
"Louisiana Watergate" - Glenn Thrush - politico.com
ACORN-buster busted in senator's office: The Swamp
What We Know about the Young Republican Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight - James o'keefe - Gawker
Congressman Who Sponsored Resolution Honoring O’Keefe Criticizes the Landrieu Sting « The Washington Independent
Your Flagon Of Schadenfreude - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Breitbart admits paying activist who tried to bug Democratic senator | Raw Story
What Were They Thinking? | Talking Points Memo
Daily Kos: ACORN "pimp" James O'Keefe's prior attacks on Planned Parenthood
The O'Keefe Plot Thickens - Megan McArdle
Think Progress » Beck condemns O’Keefe’s operation: ‘If they were doing that — that’s Watergate. Insanely stupid and illegal.’
Conservative Bloggers Scramble to Disown the ACORN Buster | The Atlantic Wire
REPORT: After obsessive coverage of O'Keefe's video, Fox largely ignored his arrest | Media Matters for America Fox News provided 13 times as much coverage to O'Keefe's ACORN video as to his arrest
Fox News' Shawn: "[S]ources close to O'Keefe tell me" arrest was "not a case of wiretapping" | Media Matters for America
James O'Keefe arrest taints ACORN videos? Federal prosecution for attempted wiretapping of Landrieu - son of Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan of the Western District of Louisiana. His nomination was opposed by Landrieu, and Flanagan has been highly critical of Landrieu's role in the healthcare bill (Bushie still has his job?)

Obama Plans to Propose $38 Billion Business Tax Break - Bloomberg.com
Geithner Tells House Panel A.I.G. Rescue Was Essential - NYTimes.com (yeah, it was all "essential")
Ailing Banks Favor Salaries Over Shareholders - NYTimes.com (worst banks, biggest pay - the American system at work)
FDL News Desk » Bernanke Looks Safe For Passage (51 is the new 60 when it comes to bankers)
Housing markets now well undervalued - Jan. 27, 2010

Caucasians and Asians don't examine faces in the same way
Giant sculptured Mayan head found
231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest 253 mph gust on Australia's Barrow Island during Cyclone Olivia in 1996.
Deadly fish virus now found in all Great Lakes
Studies demonstrate link among Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome and atherosclerosis
Down’s Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Trisomy 21 Mosaicism in AD - young mothers of DS children have a fivefold greater risk of developing AD later in life
Studies demonstrate link among Alzheimer's disease, Down syndrome and atherosclerosis
Review and hypothesis: Alzheimer disease and Down syndrome--chromosome 21 nondisjunction may underlie both disorders (H Potter)

Poll: Fox most-trusted news outlet - BostonHerald.com
Dallas News - Better Off Deadbeat: Craig Cunningham Has a Simple Solution for Getting Bill Collectors Off His Back. He Sues Them. - page 1
Straight Talk about Grad School | Idiotprogrammer
Google Toolbar caught tracking users when 'disabled' • The Register
Panopticlick
December 2009: Mark Bowden on Sexual Predators | vanityfair.com
FCC's Net Neutrality Plan Would Permit Blocking of BitTorrent | Electronic Frontier Foundation (neutral to corps)
YouTube - The Internet Is Made Of Cats

Apple's iPad will NOT save journalism | Philly | 01/27/2010
faultyimacsaga - Gizmodo | Apple iMac (Late 2009) Issues
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Hello iPad, Goodbye PC
Analysis: iPad Is an iDRM Storefront For Apple Ambitions To Dominate All Digital Media Sales - SVW
8 Things That Suck About the iPad - apple ipad - Gizmodo
Apple's iPad not just a bigger iPod Touch - Consumer tech- msnbc.com
Create Digital Music » How A Great Product Can Be Bad News: Apple, iPad, and the Closed Mac
7 Essential Features Left Off of the iPad | Mac|Life

Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87 - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe

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Tony Blair | Iraq War | Chilcot Inquiry (which will either be classified for 70 yrs or full of lies, or both)
Israel says Turkish leader fueling anti-Semitism - washingtonpost.com (always their answer)
Baghdad Blasts Shatter Sense of Security in Capital - NYTimes.com
U.S. Envoy’s Cables Show Deep Concerns on Afghan Strategy - NYTimes.com (more failed Repubican strategies from Obama)
Matthew Yglesias » In What Culture is Having a Shoe Thrown At You a Sign of Respect? (but not breaking into their homes and shooting everybody)
Science > Image > Caribbean fault lines
The Seminal » Eikenberry on Karzai Government: “They assume we covet their territory for a never-ending ‘war on terror’” (endless corruption train)
Is a pie in the face a terrorist act? - The Globe and Mail
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The sanctity of military spending
Daily Kos: How About Freezing Defense Spending?
The BRAD BLOG : Exclusive: Group Receives 'Tsunami of Vile Hate' After ABC Exposé on U.S. Military 'Jesus Rifles' (+jewzii vs. "the Fire Arm of Jesus Christ.")

Daily Kos: 50 Votes to Confirm Bernanke You want to see a clear reflection of priorities in the Senate? They can't come together to agree to pass healthcare reform by reconciliation, but Bernanke will get a simple majority vote:
Decision Looms on Advancing Health Care Bill - NYTimes.com (complete failure)
Daily Kos: Sometimes a freeze isn't that much of a freeze (another stupid Obama idea)
FDL Action » 51% Of Self-Identified Republicans In Swing Districts Favor A Public Option (Dems screwing themselves)
Damage Control for Democrats | The American Prospect Are Democrats doomed? Not necessarily -- but they need to stop acting like it (doomed)
Sidebar - Justice John Paul Stevens Voices Frustration With Recent Decisions of Supreme Court - Series - NYTimes.com
Dana Milbank identifies the "far left" | Media Matters for America | I guess someone's been watching Fox News (the worst of Kaplan Test Prep)
Tax Increase for the Rich Is at Issue in Oregon - NYTimes.com
ACORN gotcha man among four arrested for attempting to tamper with Mary Landrieu's office phones | Louisiana Politics & Government - - Louisiana Politics | State Legislature News - NOLA.com
FLASHBACK: 31 House Republicans Supported Resolution Honoring Alleged Felon James O'Keefe | Media Matters Action Network - "Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) even introduced a resolution praising O'Keefe and his partner, would-be prostitute Hannah Giles, for "their diligent investigative journalism."
ACORN Workers Cleared Of Illegality By Outside Probe - The Two-Way - Breaking News, Analysis Blog : NPR
The BRAD BLOG : ACORN Cleared YET AGAIN of Wrongdoing (missed this on the O'Reilly show)
Phila. ACORN sues secret filmmakers | Philadelphia Daily News | 01/23/2010
Dana Milbank - Sweeteners for the South Landrieu and Lincoln got the attention because they were the last to decide, but the Senate really has 100 Blanche DuBoises, a full house of characters inclined toward the narcissistic

Obama Liquidates Himself - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com (even Krugman is losing patience with O'Stupid)
Tishman Speyer Surrenders Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper - NYTimes.com - Tishman Speyer ... will lose only its original investment of $112 million. (BlackRock will also lose $112 million.) (and everyone else is screwed by the casino)
Banks Reviving Synthetic Bets as Volcker Blasts Default Swaps - Bloomberg.com (the casino, after a trillion $ cash infusion from taxpayers, if open for business)
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Budget to Call for Freeze in Non-Security Discretionary Spending
Senate says 'no' to federal debt commission Obama endorsed | McClatchy (really dumb Republican idea)
It only gets worse this year for commercial real estate | McClatchy | more than 8 percent of the bonds for apartment-complex mortgages and more than 9 percent of the bonds for hotel mortgages were delinquent (but ... ACORN!)
Eyes on the Ties » a blog by LittleSis » Blog Archive » Bernanke lobbyist authored Enron/Cheney energy plan (there you go)

Female teachers transmit math anxiety to female students
Female teachers’ math anxiety affects girls’ math achievement — PNAS
Bolivia's Glaciers Melt Away - Video Library - The New York Times
Vital Signs - Strength Training Aids Mental Acuity in Women, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
Global Update - ‘Tropical’ Diseases Are Found to Be Rife in the Arctic - NYTimes.com
A New Way to Look for the Genetic Roots of Common Disease - NYTimes.com do not decode the entire genome of every patient — just look at the few sites where genetic variations are common, defined as being present in at least 1 percent of the population.
Observatory - Slime Mold Proves to Be a Brainy Blob - NYTimes.com
Q and A - Dietary Dilemma - Question - NYTimes.com
At Physics of the Universe Summit, Dreams and Worries of New Science - NYTimes.com
Personal Health - Nation Watches as New York City Leads Attack on Salt Intake - NYTimes.com
In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine

After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site | The New York Observer - The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they've grossed about $9,000 (good luck with that plan, NYT)
YouTube - "Lost" Recapped by Extended Italian Family
National Geographic Magazine - The Polygamists - A sect that split from the Mormons allows multiple wives, expels
The Annotated White House Flickr Feed, with Ana Marie Cox and Jason Linkins: Barack Obama’s Top-Secret Message To Fox News | The Awl
Employer told they can't advertise for 'reliable' workers... because it discriminates against 'unreliable applicants | Mail Online
Google Voice Does An End Run Around Apple And Shows Up In The iPhone’s Browser (Screenshots)
Has Twitter peaked? - CNN.com

Cyberwar - The U.S. Studies the New Art of Cyberwar - Series - NYTimes.com
US oil industry hit by cyberattacks: Was China involved? / The Christian Science Monitor (what do you think?)
TechCrunch officially hacked.

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Netanyahu Says Some Settlements to Stay in Israel - NYTimes.com (Israel, the Fuck You State)
BBC News - 'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq after Halabja ruling (and then ...)
3 Coordinated Bomb Attacks Hit Hotels in Baghdad - NYTimes.com
U.N. Seeks to Drop Some Taliban From Terror List - NYTimes.com (not so terrifying anymore)
Terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba ‘planning paraglider attacks’ in India - Times Online
French Call For Veil Ban In Public Buildings
The World Today - Fears of disease and child trafficking in Haiti 25/01/2010
BBC News - In pictures: Negative images of Uzbekistan?
Take me back to Constantinople, by Edward Luttwak | Foreign Policy How Byzantium, not Rome, can help preserve Pax Americana.

Daily Kos: Canaries in the coal mine: poll: will/won't vote: Repubs: 82/17 Black: 26/55 Latino: 38/51 18-29: 38/53 (heckuva job, Barry +Gibbs has his head up his ass +incompetent & ineffective)
Obama critics say his economic vision is hazy - latimes.com (+foggy, dusty, cloudy and murky)
Obama Approval Ratings Deeply Polarized (65 pt gap between Dems and Thugs)
Can Obama Fight? | Mother Jones (not for you)
G.O.P. Lawmakers Reject Obama’s Latest Tax-Break Plans - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Wall Street: Obama's Bank Crackdown Signals Policy Shift - Time (but not really)
Dawn Johnsen's Nomination In Peril With Brown Senate Win (of course)
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room with Dianne | Crooks and Liars (one after another, zombie Senators step forward to kill you; now its DiFi who says it's time "to slow things down")
Suburban Guerrilla » Blog Archive » Memory Lane It’s not as if they didn’t try to warn us about Roberts (but his kids and hair looked good)
Fafblog! - around sunset - "Yknow it's always darkest before the dawn," says me. "Unless the sun blows up," says Giblets. "Cause now that the sun's blown up it's just always darkest before it gets more dark.
Robert Kuttner: Mixed Signals
The Sideshow January 2010 Archive: Follow that dream (+We wanted foresight, and we don't even get hindsight)
Democrats consider dropping insurance ban on pre-existing conditions | Raw Story (too anti-business)
The Unvarnished Truth About the US | Ian Welsh - a soft fascist state (and the Dems love their Alito and Roberts, no one could have predicted, etc)
G.O.P. Seeks to Widen Field of Play in Fall Elections - NYTimes.com
FDL News Desk » Why The Cornhusker Kickback Raised So Much Attention - The White House let Ben Nelson, Harry Reid and Max Baucus become the faces of the Healthcare process instead of Obama.
Obama announces initiatives for middle class - Yahoo! News (after a year of initiatives for the Republican class)
Harold Ford - Democrats, Get Down to Business - NYTimes.com (by adopting a Republican platform, of course)
Harold Ford Backs Pointless Deficit Commission
Twitter / daveweigel: Lucky for Republicans, Dem ... Lucky for Republicans, Democrats are set to spend the last year of their large majority explaining why they can't pass their own bills.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama SOTU Plan Includes Non-Refundable Child Tax Credit Expansion (more stupid from not-that-bright Dems)
The Gulf - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Stephen Bainbridge (wanker+fool)
Pressing Issues: 'Post' Apocalypse? (So, how's that big swing to the right and gutting the news staff working out for The Washington Post? +tiny-minded Katherine Weymouth)
Hullabaloo: Media Criticism For Dummies (Howie Kurtz, WaPo: "Just as you have to make a distinction between The Post's news pages and its left-leaning editorial page" +muhahaha +"the sports talkers are uniformly right-wing and they love to bash liberals, just like their "opinion show" counterparts.")
The Schwarzenegger Experiment A Big Fail, Poll Says - Los Angeles News - LA Daily (turned out to be a girly-man)

Tim Geithner Says to Leave Your Money at Big Banks « The Baseline Scenario (Obama's Republican daddies)
Geithner Warns That Markets Could Dive If Bernanke Is Not Reconfirmed (video) (which would be the worst thing evar)
Beat the Press Archive | The American Prospect Fox on Fifteenth (aka The Washington Post) Endorses Bernanke - The Post was absolutely gleeful at the prospect of UAW workers losing their jobs when the Big Three auto companies were on the edge of collapse in 2008. It wrote editorials expressing outrage that these people were paid $56,000 a year. (Dean Baker)
Editorial - Restarting Financial Reform - NYTimes.com
Krugman - The Bernanke Conundrum - NYTimes.com
Democrats look to new budget rules to tame deficit - Yahoo! News - Because in a time of deep recession, the people want fewer benefits and higher health care costs (dumb and dumber)
Of Fate and Fumbles - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com Instead, the administration played it safe — or thought it was playing it safe. Moderate-sized stimulus, non-disruptive bank policy (the timidity of doing anything to upset the Republicans)
Existing Home Sales Drop More Than Forecast - NYTimes.com
Calculated Risk: Stuyvesant Town turned over to Creditors - the most expensive real estate deal of its kind in American history. (all based on a crooked business plan - 5.4 billion wiped out)
An Apartment Complex Teeters - WSJ.com High-Profile Tishman/BlackRock Property in New York in Danger of Default (CRE meltdown ahead)
Huge N.Y. Housing Complex Is Returned to Creditors - NYTimes.com
Fed E-Mails On AIG Show Disdain For Transparency

Researcher: Money makes people happy, especially if they're paid by the hour
CBC News - Technology & Science - Leaf-like sea slug feeds on light
Ancestor of Galapagos tortoises to be resurrected from extinction | MNN - Mother Nature Network
Internet searching stimulates brain study says - SFGate Such engaging technology may help keep older minds agile imaging study shows
Your Brain Can't Handle Your Facebook Friends - Dunbar’s Number: max number of friends: 150)
World Government Data | guardian.co.uk

Off the Kuff: Why Texas politics are just different - "Tell Mr. Pickens I'll be his huckleberry. Please let him know that if I'm elected to represent the 31st District, the only water he'll leave the Panhandle with will be the urine I leave on his pant leg,"
A Silver Bullet of Big Ideas | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
What Do You See? | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters - Is your brain East or West?
Homoeopathy sceptics plan mass 'overdose' - Health News, Health & Families - The Independent Protesters to swallow pills in bid to prove treatments ineffective
Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley, out of hospital after suicide attempt but she only ingested a homeopathic antihistamine called Traumeel (and didn't even get a good night's sleep)
What's The Harm? (various alternative modes of thought that can kill you or lose all your money)
Virtually Speaking with Jay Ackroyd Mason Tvert 1/21/2010 - Virtually Speaking on Blog Talk Radio - Marijuana is Safer (Republican lies about weed)
Health Starts Here(TM) Launches at Whole Foods Market(R) -- AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Health Starts Here(TM) Launches at Whole Foods Market(R)

Tiger Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, posed as golfer to trap mistress Rachel Uchitel on phone: report
Skater Nancy Kerrigan's brother, Mark Kerrigan, charged after his father is fatally attacked
'Oral sex' definition prompts dictionary ban in US schools | Books | guardian.co.uk A parent's complaint over a 'sexually graphic' definition has seen dictionaries removed from southern Californian schools (dumb and dumber)
Mexico City Journal - Where the Swearing Is All About the Context - NYTimes.com
Effective Swearing in D.F.
How to use a semicolon - The Oatmeal

China Denies Involvement In Google Hackings
Right-Wing Flame War! - NYTimes.com (Charles Johnson/Little Green Footballs)
HBO Imagine (missed this last year: non-linear story-telling)

Christopher Blizzard · HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web
michaelv.org: Windows 3.1 in your browser)

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Emptywheel » The Brits Buried Evidence on David Kelly’s Death (and what would that be?)
David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information | Mail Online - The move, which will stoke fresh speculation about the true circumstances of Dr Kelly’s death, comes just days before Tony Blair appears before the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War.
Kelly death paramedics query verdict | UK news | The Observer (2004)
Cultural Riches Turn to Rubble in Haiti Quake - NYTimes.com
Over Redaction in Audit of FBI’s Use of Illegal Exigent Letters | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Supreme Court’s Ruling on Campaign Finance Has Consequences for States - NYTimes.com - 24 States’ Laws Open to Attack
Firedoglake » Supreme Court: Moloch Unchained
Frank Rich - After the Massachusetts Massacre - NYTimes.com - The president is no longer seen as a savior but as a captive of the interests who ginned up the mess and still profit, hugely, from it.
Obama Moves to Centralize Control Over Party Strategy - NYTimes.com (thought they already did that when they told the netroots to get lost +central control is always good)
Making Sense of the New Political Anger - NYTimes.com
Bauer: Needy 'owe something back' for aid - South Carolina & Regional - Wire - TheSunNews.com - Governor of SC: "quit feeding stray animals" (they aren't usually this direct)
Ed Schultz To Robert Gibbs: You're 'Full Of Sh*t' Schultz continued: "I told Robert Gibbs, I said 'And I'm sorry you're swearing at me, but I'm just trying to help you out. I'm telling you you're losing your base. Do you understand that you're losing your base?'" (they are that dumb)
2009 Democratic agenda severely weakened by Republicans' united opposition - washingtonpost.com (they really believed their own bullshit, now they have an advancing tide of powerlessness)
Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress) Business Should Mind Its Own Business Act (Introduced in House)

The woman Democrats need - The Boston Globe ON THE day after Tuesday’s electoral loss, the Obama administration brought an unfamiliar face to the White House - Elizabeth Warren (and two weeks ago were willing to let consumer reform die)
SEC mulled national security status for AIG details | Reuters (because they made us all insecure)
Saudi to Pursue ‘Continuous’ Fiscal Stimulus in 2010 - Bloomberg.com (must be a bunch of socialists)
Boxer, Feingold Come Out Against Fed Chairman Bernanke - WSJ.com

Editorial - The Case for a Climate Bill - NYTimes.com (but teabaggers don't believe in climate change, yo, so forget it)
UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters - Times Online
Homeopathy licences based on 'no scientific evidence' | Science | guardian.co.uk
Johann Hari: The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent You can't appeal to robots for mercy or empathy - or punish them afterwards
BBC News - Experts stunned by swan 'divorce' at Slimbridge wetland It is only the second time in more than 40 years that a "separation" has been recorded at the centre
The Radiation Boom - Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm - Series - NYTimes.com
if it’s catchy, why bother with the science? « weird things (twice the vaccines but 95% less antigens)
Richard Dawkins: Growing up in the universe | Video on TED.com

In the Loop - IFC Entertainment
Free The Heretical Two
Inside the Secret World of Literary Scouts
s Iran: A Bridge too Far? The weapon that could defeat the US in the Gulf (SS-N-22 Sunburn is the NATO designation for a Russian-made anti-ship missile)
The War Nerd: This Is How the Carriers Will Die (Updated Version) - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled
Rare Photos of Famous People (125 pics) | Crack Two
10 Bizarre Creatures from Japanese Folklore - Listverse
Tennessee Woman Accused in a Trail of Death - NYTimes.com
Barnidge: If government doesn't control marijuana, criminals will - ContraCostaTimes.com

Is The World Ready For The Successor of the MP3? | Epicenter | Wired.com
48 best free apps from Microsoft | News | TechRadar UK
What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like: 4 Big Trends to Watch
Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White! | SEO Book.com
AT&T Insiders Report iPhone Exclusivity Going Away On Wednesday - HotHardware

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Terror level in UK raised to 'severe' | UK news | guardian.co.uk Home secretary says threat has increased, but no suggestion a terror attack is imminent (by the Tories)
Randi Responds to the Arrest of James McCormick Jim McCormick, inventor of the ADE 561 Bomb Detection Device has been arrested and charged with fraud.
ExecutedToday.com » 10 executions that defined the 2000s

The Vice Guide to Liberia - CNN.com
The Vice Guide to Liberia 5 of 8 | VBS Newsroom | VBS.TV
I Built an African Army - By Sean McFate | Foreign Policy (Liberia, and how it might work in Afganistan)
Joshua Blahyi - Wikipedia - General Butt Naked
The Redemption of General Butt Naked
YouTube - Cry Freetown - part 1 of 3 Sierra Leone
The Trial of Charles Taylor
YouTube - Africa Open For Business DVD Trailer

Ruth Marcus - Court's campaign finance decision a case of shoddy scholarship - washingtonpost.com
FDL Action » “60 Votes” — It Was Always Bullshit One of the ways the administration tried to jam its PhRMA deal/Aetna bailout on the country was forcing a series of false choices onto the debate (Meet 51: it’s the new 60 - time to walk away, they were never dealing in good faith, or had the people's interests in mind)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Obama confidant's spine-chilling proposal (Cass Sunstein: "cognitively infiltrate" online groups and websites -- as well as other activist groups -- which advocate views that Sunstein deems "false conspiracy theories" about the Government +Grubar)
Obama staffer wants ‘cognitive infiltration’ of 9/11 conspiracy groups | Raw Story
Democrats Mull Plan C For Health Care; Experts Say Get Real | TPMDC
PostPartisan - How the Democrats may solve their health-care problem
Mike Lux: Clear Path vs. Clear Meltdown Olympia Snowe got every single thing she asked for in the Senate bill after delaying the bill for six months, and she still voted no. What makes anyone think she or any other Republican would vote yes for anything in an election year when it's working so well for the Republicans to say no to everything?
FDL Action » The “Reconciliation Only” Option: Just Give Medicaid to Those Who Can’t Afford Insurance
Clyburn: Public Option Not Needed for Vote - Face The Nation - CBS News
Daily Kos: MA Poll: Voters Are Angry, But At What?
Research 2000 Massachusetts Poll Results | Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Firedoglake » The Writing Is On The Wall. But Who’s Reading It?
YouTube - Keith Olbermann's Response

Stiglitz Testimony: Incentives and the Performance of America's Financial Sector
FOXNews.com - Unemployment Up in 43 States in December
Elizabeth Warren: Pass A Consumer Protection Agency Or Kill Regulatory Reform (and you know which one it will be)
Goldman under investigation for its securities dealings | McClatchy
Barney Frank: Abolish Fannie and Freddie
Calculated Risk: On Bernanke's Reconfirmation (Obama loves his Republican daddies)
Paul Krugman For The Fed « The Baseline Scenario (but he's a communist)
Think Progress » Bayh Claims ‘There’s A Fighting Chance’ Obama Will Call For A Spending Freeze - Bayh is the signature model of a “deficit peacock”: someone who likes to harp on deficits, while at the same time voting for budget-busting expenditures like a $250 billion tax cut for the heirs of wealthy families. So his approval of a spending freeze fits right in.

Birth Weights Are Falling in U.S. - WSJ.com
Copper pipes could cause heart disease and Alzheimer's - Telegraph

Liberals Aren’t Un-American. Conservatives Aren’t Ignorant. The demonization that mars our politics is a failure of moral imagination
Jon Haidt's Home Page | Jonathan Haidt -- Science Paper
Civil Politics - Can't we all disagree more constructively?
Civil Politics - learn about moral psychology and the causes of moral conflict and self-righteousness
Morality Quiz/Test your Morals, Values & Ethics - Your Morals.Org
Reimagining a Politics of Trust
Morality, Trust, Community, and the End of Attack Politics
America’s Transpartisan Future Daring to accept our differences
Nonviolent Communication - Wikipedia

Bronx men to file $2M suit against city after cops arrested them for 'crack' that was really candy
Checkpoint-arrest case ruled homicide - The Boston Globe - But counsel to medical examiner says that finding does not imply wrongdoing (of course not)
Student: ‘Beating So Bad Thought I Was Going To Die’ - News Story - WPXI Pittsburgh
Vicki Iovine: Girlfriend's Guide: The REAL Secret To Staying Married: Separate Rooms
The Late Night Distemper of Our Times - WFMU's Beware of the Blog
YouTube - www.adme.ru - Aides Graffiti

Top 10 Tools for Better Reading, Online and Off - Reading - Lifehacker
A Big-Picture Look at Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Babelgum: GOOD: Internet Censorship
W3schoools Historical Browser Statistics
Well, I'm Back: Video, Freedom And Mozilla - H.264 is encumbered by patents whose licensing is actively pursued by the MPEG-LA.
Obama has suspicious number of letter-writing fans named 'Ellie Light' | OPEN: Ohio Politics - cleveland.com (Obama astroturf)
Ex-Conservative Charles Johnson's Next Crusade: Barrett Brown | Vanity Fair

012210
Detainees Will Still Be Held, but Not Tried, Official Says - NYTimes.com
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Obama to indefinitely imprison detainees without charges (just like the old Bush)

Officials Estimate Death Toll In Haiti | NEWS JUNKIE POST Officials say the disaster has killed between 100,000 to 200,000 people and the Red Cross estimates some 3 million people have been affected.
US Mercenaries Set Sights on Haiti
Op-Ed Contributor - To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature - NYTimes.com - Along with the great colonial powers, America instead rewarded Haiti’s triumphant slaves with a suffocating trade embargo — and a demand that in exchange for peace the fledgling country pay enormous reparations to its former colonial overseer (Lincoln recognized Haiti in 1862)
Understanding Why Haiti's Buildings Collapsed - Newsweek.com
Haiti earthquake: 360° video - Special Coverage on CNN.com
India Hijack Plot: Alert Issued Over Possible Al Qaeda Plane Attack
China: Clinton Internet Speech Harms Ties With U.S. (information just wants to be Chinese)
120 al-Qaeda Suspects Detained In Turkey (there were only 12 in the entire world)
Gates Sees 'Trust Deficit' in Pakistan - WSJ.com (been down this road before)
AFP: No religious justification for child marriage: Saudi cleric - The comments by Sheikh Abdullah al-Manie, a member of the Council of Senior Ulema (scholars), followed the marriage of a 12-year-old girl to a man 68 years her senior
BBC News - Newsnight - Export ban for useless 'bomb detector'
BBC News - China condemns 'groundless' US criticism of web control (information just wants to be Chinese)


Supreme Court Blocks Ban on Corporate Political Spending - NYTimes.com
Editorial - The Court’s Blow to Democracy - NYTimes.com With a single, disastrous 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court has thrust politics back to the robber-baron era of the 19th century
Lobbyists Get Potent Weapon in Campaign Ruling - NYTimes.com
Grayson: Fight now or ‘kiss your country goodbye’ to Exxon, Wal-Mart | Raw Story
Stevens Accuses Supreme Court Conservatives of Judicial Activism | Mother Jones
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - What the Supreme Court got right
If Health Care Overhaul Fails, Insurers Could Suffer - NYTimes.com (they already raised their rates)
Obama at One
Alan Grayson: Save Democracy: if it isn't dead already (sign petition)
Getting It Done: The Year In Obama-Led Health Care Reform | TPM LiveWire (tizzy yourself)
Obama: 'We've Run Into Buzz Saw' On Health Care | TPMDC
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » There Is Your Opening, President Obama ("populist" teabaggers love their bankers)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » SCOTUS Campaign Finance Ruling (nepotistic Luke Russert, Republican wanker)
Democrats Mull Plan C For Health Care; Experts Say Get Real | TPMDC (it's over and the Dems will lose big)
Mistakes? Gregory has made a few | Media Matters for America (bunch of elite media liars and hacks)
Hak-Shing William Tam, Prop. 8 Backer, Claims Gays More Likely To Be Pedophiles
Balls Beer for Health Care Reform | TPMTV
Anne Garrels - Wikipedia - on October 26, 2007 NPR aired a story by Garrels that was mainly based on information extracted via torture (Nice Polite Republican torturers)

Robert Reich (Why Obama is Now (finally) Getting Tough on Wall Street)
Obama's 'Volcker Rule' shifts power away from Geithner - washingtonpost.com
FDL News Desk » Will Ben Bernanke Become The First Casualty Of The Brown Election? (we can hope: is Obama finally letting go of his Republican daddies?)
Simon Johnson: Questions That Ben Bernanke Must Answer (and won't)
Opposition To Bernanke Growing In Wake Of Mass. Vote (very delayed accountability moment)
Obama Seen as Anti-Business by 77% of U.S. Investors - Yahoo! News
U.S. Life Insurers May Face More Real Estate Losses (the next wave of bailouts while you rot) - BusinessWeek
Three cheers for Obama’s banking reforms | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters (too little, too late)
The Faces Of Larry Summers And Paul Volcker Say It All (what an ass Summers is: no regulation for banksters)
How the World Works - Salon.com The Treasury secretary has "reservations" about Obama's bank reform plan. Maybe he should think about a new job
Moritz Kraemer: Is the Euro Headed for a Breakup? - WSJ.com Despite the hand-wringing, the costs of exiting the euro zone remain prohibitively high.
Calculated Risk: HAMP Changes Coming (program designed to fail)

Views: The Innumeracy of Intellectuals - Inside Higher Ed
Protozoans Against Intelligent Design - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible | Video on TED.com
Space rock of doom attacks doctor | Metro.co.uk It is not clear if the space rock was deliberately targeting doctors in an attempt to destroy Earth's medical capabilities in advance of an alien attack, or if it just strayed off course, and had actually been trying to take out nearby Washington D.C
Salmon, Trout Populations Surge in Oregon Rivers - WSJ.com Population Surge Comes Despite Forecasts of Decline; Salmon at the Food Bank
Should obese, smoking and alcohol consuming women receive assisted reproduction treatment? (probably not)
The surprising reason why being overweight isn't healthy - CNN.com
BBC - Earth News - Sexy sparrow exposed as world's most promiscuous bird
Photos: Queen's Cat Goddess Temple Found in Egypt
APOD: 2010 January 20 - The Known Universe

Big city left with no bookstore - CNN.com
Air America is dead
Jon Stewart's Special Comment on Keith Olbermann | Indecision Forever | Comedy Central
New York Fire Dept. Ordered to Hire Hundreds of Minority Applicants - NYTimes.com (racism not dead in NYC)
Petraeus calls gunscope inscriptions disturbing | Reuters that a manufacturer had embossed biblical citations on rifle scopes sent to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the firm announced it would voluntarily halt the practice.
TSA Employee Thought It Would Be Hilarious To Plant Fake Drugs On You - The Consumerist
LRB · Anne Enright · Diary Iris Robinson is, at the time of writing, under acute psychiatric care in a Belfast hospital, after a BBC Northern Ireland documentary revealed that she had, at the age of 59, solicited £50,000 from two property developers to help fund a business run by her 19-year-old lover, Kirk McCambley.
Charles Darwin: Family Man, Scientist and Skeptic | LiveScience - The new film "Creation," starring Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin ... was slow to find a U.S. distributor because, according to the film's producer Jeremy Thomas, Darwin's theory of evolution was too much of a "hot potato" in America.

YouTube - Doug Stanhope: Voice of America on FEAR
YouTube - The Power of Nightmares Volume 1 Part 1 of 6
YouTube - Stanhope on immigration
Perspectives on Acquaintance Rape

YouTube - The Virtual Revolution Intro (BBC)
BBC - Digital Revolution - The Virtual Revolution
Google revenues disappoint the market despite 17pc increase - Telegraph
Amended Settlement Agreement (in English) - Google Books Settlement
FTC complaint says Facebook's privacy changes are deceptive
The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now
Court Reduces ‘Shocking’ File Sharing Award | Threat Level | Wired.com (RIAA bullshit award +The decision came days after the Obama administration supported $675,000 in damages a jury levied against a Boston file sharer in the nation’s second and only other file sharing case against an individual to go to trial.
Official Google Blog: Understanding the web to make search more relevant
012110
Nightmare in Haiti - Untreated Illness and Injury - NYTimes.com
Haiti Aftershock: Another Earthquake Near Port-au-Prince
Haiti: Is this the best picture in the world? - Evening Star 24
Britain Tightens Antiterror Measures on Air Travel - NYTimes.com
Hamas ready to cancel charter, senior member says | Middle East
Fort Hood Report: No Mention of Islam, Hasan Not Named - TIME
Federal Bureau of Investigation - The Washington Field Office: Department of Justice Press Release Twenty-Two Executives and Employees of Military and Law Enforcement Products Companies Charged in Foreign Bribery Scheme
CBC News - Canada - Ontario farmer not guilty of selling raw milk - dispensing milk straight from the cow (raided at gunpoint)
A Shameful Track Record : The Literary Review of Canada The Olympic movement plays fast and loose with basic democratic values

Supreme Court rolls back campaign spending limits - washingtonpost.com By a 5-4 vote, the court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said companies can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to produce and run their own campaign ads (the Corporate Court)
Court decision opens floodgates for corporate political spending - Kenneth P. Vogel - politico.com
Supreme Court rolls back campaign cash limits - Supreme Court- msnbc.com
SCOTUSblog » Campaign disclosure rules upheld (Thomas dissented)
Corporate personhood debate - Wikipedia
Business Plot - Wikipedia

Six Explanations for Why Coakley Lost in Mass. - Newsweek.com
G.O.P. Senate Victory Stuns Democrats - NYTimes.com
How the G.O.P. Captured a Seat Lost for Decades - NYTimes.com
Black Box Voting : (MA) 1/10 - BIPARTISANLY YOURS: COAKLEY WON THE HAND COUNTS -
DownWithTyranny!: What Are Democrats Saying?
Obama Weighs Paring Goals for Health Bill - NYTimes.com
Post Apocalypse | The New Republic Inside the messy collapse of a great newspaper (how Kaplan Test Prep became a crappy paper: “an ethical lapse of monumental proportions.” for one)
Matthew Yglesias » Inside the Beltway
John Edwards Admits Paternity Of Quinn

State Regulators Warn Of Failing Foreclosure Prevention Efforts (HAMP: the program designed to fail ... failed!)
Obama (Finally) Gets Tough on Wall Street : CJR
Simon Johnson: Paul Volcker Prevails
Obama to Propose New Limits on Banks - WSJ.com
Goldman Sachs Profits Hit $4.8B, Pay Up 47 Percent
German Insurer sues Bundesbank to Open Central Bank Checking Account | Ron Paul 2012 | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul


Human brain uses a grid to represent space - "These brain areas are also amongst the first to be affected by Alzheimer's disease which may explain why getting lost is one of the most common early symptoms of this disease."
I.O.C. Panel Urges Treatment for Female Athletes With Male Characteristics - NYTimes.com

TMI - Salon.com As a writer, I expose my deepest insecurities all the time. But could I really strip naked for a magazine -- at 44
Target Women With Sarah Haskins: Women in the Media Videos // Current
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Never Mind The Bollocks: Shepard Fairey's Fight for Appropriation, Fair Use and Free Culture (Part One)

The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures « OkTrends
Simple Passwords Remain Popular, Despite Risk of Hacking - NYTimes.com

012010
Magnitude 5.9 - HAITI REGION
Haitians flee in fear as big aftershock hits - Yahoo! News
Group: More than 200 dead in Nigeria violence - Yahoo! News the latest outbreak that began Sunday came despite the government's efforts to quell religious extremism in the West African country.
The Female Factor - In Germany, a Tradition Falls, and Women Rise - Series - NYTimes.com - The half-day school system survived feudalism, the rise and demise of Hitler’s mother cult, the women’s movement of the 1970s and reunification with East Germany
BBC News - Stop-and-search powers ruled illegal by European court Police powers to use terror laws to stop and search people without grounds for suspicion are illegal, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.
Stop and search powers illegal, European court rules | UK news | guardian.co.uk Judges in Strasbourg say UK powers under Terrorism Act 2000 violate convention on human rights

2010 Massachusetts US Senate Special Election Results - Boston.com - Politics
Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate - New York News - Runnin' Scared
President Obama plans combative turn - Mike Allen - politico.com (wishful thinking)
News Analysis - A Year Later, Voters Send a Different Message - NYTimes.com
G.O.P. Senate Victory Stuns Democrats - NYTimes.com
Live coverage of the US Senate race - Local News Updates - The Boston Globe Brown: "I know I have a lot to learn in the Senate, but I know who I am and I know who I serve. I’m Scott Brown, I'm from Wrentham, and I drive a truck.
Paging CNBC's Jim Cramer, where's the "gigantic" Scott Brown stock rally? | Media Matters for America (Dow down 200)
Huff TV: Arianna: Massachusetts Loss Could Be Blessing In Disguise (VIDEO)
Coakley Pollster Defends Campaign Against White House
Bank Shot: Independents And Dem Base Still Aligned In Anger
Olbermann vs. Scarborough On 'Homophobic,' 'Racist,' 'Sexist' Scott Brown (video)
Coakley's Loss: HuffPost Bloggers React
Peter Daou: Liberal Bloggers to Obama and Dems: We Told You So
Howard Dean: The Message of Massachusetts Election Results Is 'We Gotta Be Tougher' (video)
Daily Kos: The Critical Distinction Between a Lame Duck and a Dead Duck
Daily Kos: The new bipartisan math: 41 is greater than 59
FDL Action » If You Run On Republican Obstructionism, You Will Lose
Firedoglake » Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman Discuss MA Senate Loss
Frank: Health reform dead if Coakley loses - Live Pulse - Politico.com
Martha Coakley, Curt Schilling, and Why Baseball Matters in Politics | MLB
A charisma shortage - The Boston Globe
What makes Coakley run - The Boston Globe
Annals of "progressive" idiocy | Corrente
Daily Show: Democratic strategists are ‘thinking three failures ahead’ | Raw Story
David Sirota: It's Not Mere Cynicism or Demoralization - More Likely, It's Humiliation and Alienation
Glenn Beck Destroys Scott Brown: “This One Could End With A Dead Intern” | Online | Mediaite (he's got a point)
The Washington Monthly - Lucy, Charlie Brown, And The Bipartisan Football
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Dem Talking Points: We're Screwed! | TPMDC . "It is mathematically impossible for Democrats to pass legislation on our own. Senate Republicans to come to the table (sic) with ideas for improving our nation and not obstructionist tactics." (blaming Repubs)
Drew Westen: Obama Finally Gets His Victory For Bipartisanship
Straining to Defend Martha Coakley - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine Commenting on Martha Coakley's role in the Gerald Amirault case ("Coakley was wrong for her extraordinary efforts to keep Gerald Amiralut in prison" +Keith Winfield case)

Featured Legislation | The White House (list of Obama accomplishments)
PolitiFact | The Obameter: Tracking Barack Obama's Campaign Promises
» The peoples seat - blogs.berlingske.dk - Simon Schama *
Daily Kos: What happens when Obama acts alone. Dammit!
Relieved | Talking Points Memo *

Economic Scene - Centrist Approach on Health Reform Fails to Build Consensus - NYTimes.com
Research 2000 Massachusetts Poll Results | Even Scott Brown Voters Want The Public Option, Want Democrats To Be Bolder
The Washington Monthly: No Way To Run A Government - One year into the Obama administration, there are 177. And dozens of those holds are directly affecting the agencies responsible for the United States' security and foreign policy, amid two wars and an amped-up terrorism threat
Matthew Yglesias » The Senate’s Underpants Gnome Problem
Ezra Klein - The other health-care reform option So you make it real simple: Medicare buy-in between 50 and 65. Medicaid expands up to 200 percent of poverty with the federal government funding the whole of the expansion. Revenue comes from a surtax on the wealthy (not complicated enough)
Weiner On Health Care's Demise: We Lacked Leadership From Obama (President Above-It-All)
Conservatives should embrace the health-insurance mandate | The Economist
Initial Reaction To Scott Brown’s Senate Victory In Massachusetts: An Imagined Monologue By The Republican Party | The Awl
Matthew Yglesias » Who’s “Ideological” in the Health Care Debate?
Norman Solomon: The Ideology of No Ideology
Erroll Southers Withdraws: TSA Nominee Drops Out Amid 'Political Agenda'
Christopher Speight Virginia Shooting UDATE: Suspect Turns Himself In After Multiple Fatalities

Jobs Not Created - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com (you don't need no steenking job)
How the World Works - Salon.com - Please, Obama, pick a fight with the banks: Wall Street whines that the meanie president is being unfair. It's about time
White House, Democratic lawmakers cut deal on deficit commission - washingtonpost.com (Obama backs a really bad idea)
FT.com / Video & Audio / Interactive graphics - Quantitative easing explained
Quantitative Easing
Administration Bank Tax Plan: An Empty Populist Gesture by Design? « naked capitalism (programs designed to fail)
Thoughts on the Bank Tax « The Baseline Scenario (big bankers will always win)

From Genomes, a Census of Early Humans - NYTimes.com - 18,500 people, but this refers only to breeding individuals, the “effective” population. The actual population would have been about three times as large, or 55,500
Undersea Internet Cables Could Detect Electromagnetic Tsunami Signals | Wired Science | Wired.com
Face recognition ability inherited separately from IQ
Calorie culprit might be home cooking - SFGate at least one mainstream cookbook, "The Joy of Cooking," the number of calories per serving for 17 classic recipes has increased quite a bit as the recipes have been updated since the first edition was published for mass circulation in 1936.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: Archive

New York Times to Charge Frequent Readers of Web Site - NYTimes.com
New York Times 'Metered Model': Paywall Announcement Confirms Report (2011)
Software Firms Fear Hackers Who Leave No Trace - NYTimes.com
Windows hole discovered after 17 years - Update - The H Security: News and Features
'Grave consequences' if web community doesn't switch to new address protocol - Telegraph
KML Screenshots - OpenEarth - Deltares Wiki

January 2010: Christopher Hitchens on "Like" | vanityfair.com - When Caroline Kennedy managed to say “you know” more than 200 times in an interview with the New York Daily News, and on 130 occasions while talking to The New York Times during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator ...
British Girl Marries Laptop.
Best movie sex scene ever?
Best Movie Sex Scenes of All Time - Inside Movies

011910
Bumgarner Splutters - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan One of the key figures in the alleged cover-up of a torture session gone wrong - "If the prisoner dies, you're doing it wrong" - responds to the Harper's Magazine piece
"Camp No" - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (Gitmo Torture Chambers)
attackerman » These Were Not Suicides At Guantanamo (MSM still ignoring this story)

As Haitians Flee, the Dead Go Uncounted - NYTimes.com
U.N. Expected to Approve Expansion of Security Forces - NYTimes.com (while the Pentagon works on a plan)
By Air, Sea and Land, Thousands Try to Escape Port-au-Prince - NYTimes.com
Translating David Brooks - Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - True/Slant Not many writers would have the courage to use a tragic event like a 50,000-fatality earthquake to volubly address the problem of nonwhite laziness and why it sometimes makes natural disasters seem timely, but then again, David Brooks isn’t just any writer (Brooks is Jewish? no kidding)
Kabul Attack Shows Resilience of Afghan Militants - NYTimes.com
Syria's Mufti: Islam commands us to protect Judaism - Haaretz - Israel News
Battle rages in pirate hub over $7 million ransom - Times Online
Opinion: The naked truth about future airline travel The federal government says Canadian air travellers will soon be asked to undergo full-body cavity searches (no washrooms, either)

FBI broke law for years in phone record searches - washingtonpost.com (send them all to prison)
Precriminations: Dems, Expecting Loss, Lay Into Coakley | The Atlantic Wire - . From the primary through last Sunday, Scott Brown held 66 events of varying size. Coakley held 19 ... "but she couldn't be bothered to carry out the tasks that would have allowed others to do so on her behalf."
Abortion Wars Overtake Mass. Race: Coakley Accused Of Being Threat To Babies (Catholic Church has skin in the game)
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Martha Choakley?
Future of HCR? | Talking Points Memo And the lesson of 1994 is clear: the folks who killed health care in 1994 didn't gain any benefit from it. They were the ones who got slaughtered in November.
Jon Stewart Gets Fed Up: Dems Set The Bar So Low They're Tripping Over It (video) - "And the reason it will die... is because if Coakley loses, Democrats will only have an 18 vote majority in the Senate, which is more than George W. Bush ever had in the Senate when did whatever the fuck he wanted to."
Harold Ford, mulling an NY Senate run, says Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is 'weak' (zombie pedicure Harold)
YouTube - Free For All!: The High-Tech HighJack of Ohio (how Bush stole 2004)

Obama Mortgage Relief Program Fails to Deliver - ABC News Obama mortgage plan doesn't deliver 11 months later; only 66,500 homeowners helped so far (the program designed to fail ... failed)
Bank Bonuses: Obama Pushed To Go Hard, As Party Standing Suffers (but doesn't want to inconvienience his banker pals, who could have predicted?)
IMF chief: global recovery stronger than expected - Forbes.com
Governor Paterson Seeks $1 Billion More in Taxes and Fees for New York - NYTimes.com Mr. Paterson’s plan would cut school aid by 5 percent in a state with the highest per capita spending on education.
The Newfoundland lesson: during the 1930s, long before the IMF, the British Empire coped with a debt crisis in a small country. - Entrepreneur.com

U.N. Panel’s Glacier Warning Is Criticized as Exaggerated - NYTimes.com
Children Don’t Have Strokes? Just Ask Jared About His, at Age 7 - NYTimes.com stroke, by some estimates, is the sixth leading cause of death in infants and children.
New ‘nanoburrs’ could help fight heart disease

Her Crime? Sex Work in New Orleans By Jordan Flaherty With police charging sex workers as sex offenders—the majority of them Black women—activists hope the city’s mayoral elections next month will pave the way for fighting the law
The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
Strike at Cleveland Orchestra Points to Music’s Larger Woes - NYTimes.com
Michael Deal - Graphic Design - Exploration of Beatles music through infographics
Robert B. Parker is Dead - Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind

Eight in 10 Americans favor legalizing medical marijuana: poll | Raw Story (drug lords and law enforcement opposed)
Twins And A Fake Mirror Wreak Some Havoc - VidZest - Daily Hilarious Videos
5 Reasons to Ditch Your Digital SLR | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

BBC News - Google postpones China mobiles after censorship row it has postponed the launch of two Android based mobile phones in China following a dispute with the government over censorship.
Apple vs Google – Benevolent Dictatorship Vs Free Democracy? (Apple fan boy likes his dictatorship)

011810
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) (smoking gun in Bush/Cheney war crimes trial)
Three Corpses In Gitmo: The Very Worst Seems True - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - And the only reason we do not know more about this is because of the criminal cover-up under the Bush administration and the enraging refusal of the Obama administration to do the right thing and open all of it to sunlight.

Haiti six days later - The Big Picture - Boston.com
LiveLeak.com - New Video of Haiti quake 1:25
Retribution swift and brutal for Haiti's looters | World news | The Guardian
Rescues Beat Dimming Odds in Haiti but Fall Short of Need - NYTimes.com
For 45,000 Americans in Haiti, the Quake Was ‘a Nightmare That’s Not Ending’ - NYTimes.com
Survivors Rescued 126 Hours After Haiti Earthquake (video)
Magnitude 6.0 quake hits Guatemala coast - Americas- msnbc.com
France and America bicker as Haiti aid fails to reach city - Times Online Mr Joyandet said that the UN would have to clarify the role of the US in the Haitian aid effort. "It's a matter of helping Haiti, not occupying Haiti" (Pentagon still "working on a plan" to shock and awe Haiti)
Daily Kos: USNS Comfort to be at full strength for first time in history
Pennies for Haiti, Billions for Israel, Egypt - Coop's Corner - CBS News (of course)

OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting

Review of Jet Bomb Plot Shows More Missed Clues - NYTimes.com
5 Americans Detained in Pakistan Allege Torture - ABC News
Why they hate us? It's not a secret - baltimoresun.com the purported voice of Mr. bin Laden, "to liberate yourself from fear and the ideological terrorism of neoconservatives and the Israeli lobby; the reason for our dispute with you is your support for your ally, Israel, occupying our land in Palestine."
What To Trust: The Market Or Body Politic? - Baltimore Sun (neither, and they are both Republicans)
ABC The Drum Unleashed - Prioritising life Why are we in a War on Terror at all? Why not a War on Earthquakes, which kill hundreds of thousands more people each year than some goose with incendiary BVDs who was on a suspect-list anyway?
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes - ABC News the issue was being raised by a group that is "not Christian."

Krugman - What Didn’t Happen - NYTimes.com - Reagan spent his first few years in office continuing to run against Jimmy Carter (while Obama spent his trying to be Bush: pure genius, Rahm)
In Reliably Blue State of Massachusetts, Pockets Red With Anger - NYTimes.com
Brown Takes Lead; Campaign Turns Ugly; Rape Remark Leveled At Coakley (video)
No Way | Talking Points Memo If Michael Capuano had been the Democratic nominee, there's simply no way we'd have gotten to this point ... Coakley is just culturally and temperamentally not suited to the politics of 2009/2010.
The Republican wins, even if he loses | Media Matters for America (they always do)
FDL News Desk » Let Me Say It Again – The House Won’t Pass The Senate Bill
Hullabaloo: Missing Flippers by digby (Dems to double down on failure?)
Poll: Most Don't Want Sarah Palin to Run for President - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Firedoglake » Late Night: If Wishes Were Ponies, Then Bushies Would Ride - Man Hands Hughes joins the growing conga line of Bush sycophants who are desperate to rewrite the past in the vain hope that the Aughts will not be fondly remembered as “the goddamned worst fucking decade in this nation’s history
Sandra Day O'Connor Sandra Day O'Connor's most controversial vote may be her vote in 2001 to suspend Florida's ballot recount, thus ensuring the election of George W. Bush as US President. This vote, in a 5-4 majority, came just months after she publicly expressed her concern that Senator Al Gore's election could delay her retirement plans (historical footnote)
Conservative Vision Ascendant In Latest TX History Textbooks Draft; Gingrich, Schlafly Back In | TPMMuckraker
Bitter recount, loss to former 'SNL' comic Al Franken sours ex-Minn. senator to governor's bid - latimes.com (+losing to professional wrestler)

Consumer Protection Agency in Doubt - WSJ.com Dodd Weighs Dropping Idea of Creating Independent Body in Bid to Get Financial Regulatory Revamp Passed This Year
Watchdog's fate in Senate key to financial reform | Reuters The tag on U.S. financial regulation reform may as well say "Made on Wall Street" if bank lobbyists manage to gut the Obama administration's proposed consumer watchdog agency, said Elizabeth Warren on Monday.
FT.com / Comment / Opinion - A bank levy will not stop the doomsday cycle
BBC News - IMF head in 'double-dip' global economy warning (call Larry Summers)
Homeowners opt to flee instead of fight as loan modifications start to lose luster (HAMP: the program designed to fail, failed)
Calculated Risk: Principal Reduction and Walking Away
Law to Curb Lobbying Sends It Underground - NYTimes.com
Wall St. Weighs Legal Challenge to Proposed Bank Tax - NYTimes.com (unconstitutional to tax banks, Supremes will agree)
NorthJersey.com: Big Tobacco wants a deal

Top 10 Pet Poisons
Writing Good English: A talk by William Zinsser to foreign students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism | The American Scholar

When Trying to Preserve the Planet Strains the Relationship - NYTimes.com (another outlet for OCD)
Aokigahara-forest of suicides | Crazy pics
Canopy Living: The Ultimate Tree House | TwistedSifter

Man arrested under Terrorism Act for Doncaster airport Twitter joke - Telegraph
The case against a 10" AMOLED Apple tablet
Apple: The Tablet Prophecies - Patently Apple
apple-vs-google: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
France warns against Internet Explorer use - Telegraph

011710
Why Haiti Matters | Newsweek.com By Barack Obama
From Haiti's ruins, a chance to rebuild a nation - washingtonpost.com
Officials Strain to Distribute Aid to Haiti as Violence Rises - NYTimes.com
Earthquake Day in Port au Prince « Rollings in Haiti
The Missing in Haiti - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Haiti Earthquake Caught on Tape - CBS News Video
Dominican Aid Workers Shot In Haiti: WNBC (video)
Haiti earthquake: News updates - CNN.com
Letter of the day: Haiti suffers, and Robertson sees the hand of Satan | StarTribune.com
Wyclef Jean Charity's Funny Money - January 14, 2010
Doubts raised about Jean’s charity group - Celebrities- msnbc.com
The DOs and DON'Ts of Disaster Donations
Mini Marshall Plan Is Needed for a True Resurrection of Haiti - DailyFinance
A Letter to Rush Limbaugh :: rogerebert.com :: Opinion

Attackerman » Did The Jordanians Torture The CIA Khost Killer?
3 Blackwater Guards Called Baghdad Shootings Unjustified - NYTimes.com
Bagram Detainees Named by U.S. - NYTimes.com - 645 detainees held at the main detention center at Bagram Air Base
With World Watching, Rio Focuses on Security - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Nacktscanner bei Markus Lanz (why TSA's body scanners and security theatre is USELESS FAIL)

Op-Ed Columnist - The Great Tea Party Rip-Off - NYTimes.com By Frank Rich
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Sources: Obama advisers believe Coakley will lose « - Blogs from CNN.com (just plain stupid +doomed)
Firedoglake » National Review Apparently Unaware that Substantial Majority of Republicans Reject Evolution (Scott Brown proabably doesn't believe in evolution
Williams and Krauthammer agree: "Democrats are losing" in Massachusetts "even if Coakley wins" | Media Matters for America
Political Memo - Massachusetts Election Tests Democrats’ Staying Power - NYTimes.com
Ed Schultz On MA Election: 'I'd Cheat To Keep These Bastards Out' (audio)
Justices to hear case on disclosure of names on a petition - washingtonpost.com (they love interfering in voting

The Seminal » Pissed Off Enough Yet? Blankfein - the guy who claimed G-S was 'doing God's work'

Up to 80 million Americans infected with H1N1: CDC | Reuters
Frozen In France? Thank The Arctic Oscillation : NPR
The way in which wolves adapted to the environment to turn into dogs reveals another insight into evolution
Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets « silent listening
Ice Recordings Updated « silent listening
Proteins that might contribute to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease identified - kinases involved in Alzheimer's disease-related tau hyperphosphorylation.
Fire and Ice - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Even Plants May Not Like a Warmer World - TIME
BBC News - Oesophageal cancer cell errors threaten research
Wii board helps physios strike a balance after strokes - health - 16 January 2010 - New Scientist (medical corps: $17,000; WII: $84
Why beer is the latest hope in fight against cancer | Mail Online xanthohumol blocks the excessive action of testosterone and oestrogen. It also helps to prevent the release of a protein called PSA which encourages the spread of prostate cancer.
Faster-than-light pulsar radio waves found - Neoseeker News Article

Racism: 10 things you might not know about it - chicagotribune.com
Facebook causes one in five divorces, says law firm | Technology | News & Comment | The First Post
101 Ways to Lose Your Gut - Men's Fitness

New York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers -- Daily Intel (nothing succeeds like failure)
Not all information wants to be free. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
User Reviews Can Be Biased - Daily Press

BBC News - German government warns against using MS Explorer
Does the Fourth Amendment cover 'the cloud'? | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News
FT.com / Comment / Analysis - China and the west: Full circle (Chinese go wild on uncensored google.cn)
China's attack on Google explained - CNET News
Windows 7 Security: What You Need to Know, Part One - PC World Business Center

011610
Patience Wears Thin as Desperation Grows - NYTimes.com (US military is "working on a plan")
U.S. Gives Illegal Haitian Residents Protected Status - NYTimes.com
On rebuilding Haiti : The New Yorker: Suffering: by George Packer
Haiti deaths may reach 200,000; 1,415 Canadians missing - thestar.com
Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims - CNN.com
Haiti Earthquake Aid Slowly Reaching Victims As Desperation Grows
Hedi Annabi Dead: Bodies Of Haiti Mission Chief And Top Deputy Found, U.N. Says
Fox News Has No Idea How to Cover the Crisis in Haiti | PEEK | AlterNet Without an RNC, Obama-hating talking point to guide the newsroom, Fox News seems clearly adrift.
Guest Voices: Voodoo's view of the quake in Haiti - On Faith at washingtonpost.com
WireTap Magazine - From the Wire - Haiti Rescue Efforts: Checking Our Elitism At the Door
After six years, Charkaoui now a free man (the Canadian version of warrentless rendition forever, in the case for knowing karate)

Narrow Senate Race Unnerves Democrats on Health Care - NYTimes.com (no one could have predicted)
By The Numbers: A Brown Win Could Kill Health Care
Massachusetts: 'Bottom has fallen out' of Coakley's polls; Dems prepare to explain defeat, protect Obama | Washington Examiner - "So right now, she is destined to lose."
Kimberley A. Strassel: The Health Lady Has Yet to Sing - WSJ.com - ObamaCare is still no sure thing.
Lawmaker Reads Crude Web Posts at School - Sen. Scott Brown (Christ, what an asshole)
Why Jon Stewart failed to make John Yoo squirm. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine Why Jon Stewart failed to make John Yoo squirm.
Johnson & Johnson Facing Federal Suit for Nursing Home Kickbacks for Risperdal
David Axelrod - What Karl Rove got wrong on the U.S. deficit - washingtonpost.com
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect | The Failure Of The Cheney Assault? (MoDo's big daddy)
Trusted Bloomberg Aides Get $400,000 Election Bonuses - NYTimes.com His total spending, the records show, was 12 times that of his opponent, William C. Thompson Jr. (but Obama couldn't bring himself to campaign for Black oppenent)
Editorial - Sentenced to Abuse - NYTimes.com - several juvenile facilities where 30 percent or more of the young people reported being raped (Republican justice)
Oyster Bay Divides Over a Law Aimed at Day Laborers - NYTimes.com (no "Waving while Latino")
The Dirtiest Player: Profiles: GQ

Ezra Klein - Obama's bank-friendly bank tax (he will reap the whirlwind)
Obama Weekly Address Slams Banks For Selfishness: 'It's A Sight To See' (stern words, no action)

AccuWeather.com News & Blogs: Ken Clark Blog
‘Potentially epic’ rain coming to O.C. - Sciencedude : The Orange County Register - with as much as 20” of precipitation in the Santa Ana Mountains and 4” to 8” along the coast (7x normal)
Wildlandfire Hotlist - View Single Post - CA-LNU - Next week's weather Interesting weather pattern building. If it comes to fruition, might cause us some problems ("a truly prodigious amount of snowfall is likely to occur in the mountains, possibly measured in the tens of feet in the Sierra")
The Daily Courier - Strong El Niño storms set to hit region next week
Next Week’s Wild Weather in Socal 3-10 FEET of snow. Flooding, mudslides, and avalanches will be widespread throughout the region. Travel over mountain passes will be nearly impossible
Cliff Mass Weather Blog: A Major Coastal Wind Event? | Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The First Coastal Wind Event
La Cañada Valley Sun: La Cañada Flintridge, California
YouTube - RAIN: H20...NO (Spring Sing 2009)
If The Levees Fail In California… The economic cost would top Katrina's. But a new tool may prevent catastrophe

Open Lab! That's all She Wrote! : Neurotopia (700 nominees for best science blog posts)
Announcing Open Lab, 2009!!! : Neurotopia (the winners)
Diamond Oceans Possible on Uranus, Neptune : Discovery News
Unbelievable Y chromosome differences between humans and chimpanzees | john hawks weblog - More than thirty percent of the chimpanzee Y chromosome has no homolog in humans, and likewise for the human Y in chimpanzees

News Blog: Manipulative meow: Cats learn to vocalize a particular sound to train their human companions McComb suggests that cats may be cashing in on human's naturally nurturing response to a baby’s cry. Previous studies have shown the cat’s embedded cry shares a similar frequency.
9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado's Online News Leader | Pine beetles exhausting food source, foresters say
World Briefing - Europe - Austria - Experiment on Pigs Suspended - NYTimes.com (bury them in avalanches and watch them die)

A Rant About Women « Clay Shirky - (Women) "are bad at behaving like self-promoting narcissists, anti-social obsessives, or pompous blowhards, even a little bit, even temporarily, even when it would be in their best interests to do so." (+comments)
plasticbag.org: Should we encourage self-promotion and lies?
YouTube - "Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?" Rex Harrison
Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
Oh, gosh, thank you so much for mansplaining this to us! - Fandom wank wiki
The Open Source Boobs Project: Dear sir: I believe your patriarchy is showing.
Open Source Boob Project - FSFwiki
The Girl Who Conned The Ivy League : Rolling Stone

YouTube - Mozart sonata in C K.545 2nd mov, Mitsuko Uchida Piano | (Uchida) Chopin Etude Op.10,No.2
YouTube - Naudo - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles) | Naudo - Stairway to Heaven (Zeppelin) | Naudo - House of the Rising Sun (Animal)
Denis Zilber Art Blog

Poll: Most won't pay to read newspapers online | Digital Media - CNET News
Would Apple Dump Google for Bing? - NYTimes.com
Verizon lowering barrier to 3G data entry with higher prices

011510
Tensions Mount in Devastated Capital as Nations Step Up Aid Pledges to Haiti - NYTimes.com
Cuba Agrees to U.S. Medevac Flights - NYTimes.com
the nytpicker: The NYT's Haiti Coverage. Amazing.
Caribbean at risk of more large earthquakes - environment - 15 January 2010 - New Scientist
Congress.org - News : Rising military suicides More U.S. military personnel have taken their own lives so far in 2009 than have been killed in either the Afghanistan or Iraq wars this year

Massachusetts Senate Race: Poll Shows Shift Toward GOP Candidate (the male Sarah Palin)
The Washington Monthly: Who Votes Against Help For 9/11 Recovery Workers (Scott Brown, such a nice guy)
In MA-Sen Race That's All About Health Care, Is GOPer Brown Providing Coverage to Staff? | TPMDC
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - The creepy mind-set behind Cass Sunstein's creepy proposal
Did pollsters Pat Caddell and Douglas Schoen sleep through the Bush years? | Media Matters for America (swallow their shit and like it)
Jon Stewart: Palin Like A "Moose In Headlights" On Fox News (video)

Op-Ed Columnist - Bankers Without a Clue - NYTimes.com Goldman Sachs’s Lloyd Blankfein, who compared the financial crisis to a hurricane nobody could have predicted.
Consumer Protection Agency in Doubt - WSJ.com (Dodd will kill bill)

GM Corn & Organ Failure: Lots of Sensationalism, Few Facts | 80beats | Discover Magazine
Study: HIV-Drug Resistance May Rise, Threaten Treatment - Time
Pulsar watchers race for gravity waves : Nature News
Bible Possibly Written Centuries Earlier, Discovery Suggests | LiveScience (
Stay young on red wine drugs? Think again - health - 15 January 2010 - New Scientist

Male prostitution is Nevada's newest legal profession - latimes.com
Porno clip causes traffic jam in downtown Moscow
30 Best Blogs of 2009 - Fimoculous.com

Researchers identify command servers behind Google attack the iDefense report unambiguously declares that the Chinese government was, in fact, behind the effort.
ICSI Netalyzr (analyze/share info about your intertube connection)
Use tools running on M-Lab to test your Internet connection
Google Public DNS

011410
Haiti 48 hours later - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Haiti Lies in Ruins; Grim Search for Untold Dead - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Haiti Earthquake Caught on Tape
Haiti Earthquake
Pat Robertson: Haiti 'Cursed' By 'Pact To The Devil' (video) (Christians at work)
YouTube - Olbermann Slams Limbaugh And Robertson For Sick Comments
As Wallets Open For Haiti, Credit Card Companies Take A Big Cut
Haiti earthquake | Help Haiti
BBC News - US editor at Palestinian agency fights Israel entry ban - "Israel cannot hide behind the pretext of security to sideline journalists who have done nothing more than maintain an editorial line that the authorities dislike,"
Witness Implicates Mayor Ampatuan in Philippines Massacre - NYTimes.com (30 journalists executed)
Doomsday Deferred: End-of-World Clock Set Back 1 Minute - Yahoo! News

Democrats Fight to Hold Crucial Seat - Kennedy’s - NYTimes.com
corrected: Brown Says He's Unfamiliar with Tea Partiers; Campaign Pix Say Otherwise | TPMDC
Poll: Coakley Up By Eight Points In MA-SEN | TPMDC
Is Ailes Finished at Fox? - The Daily Beast
Just like her newspaper preference: Palin says her "favorite" founder is "all of them" before eventually citing Washington | Media Matters for America (cosmically stupid)
Beck Calls 'Bullcrap' On Palin's Non-Answer About Favorite Founding Father (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire
Please Tell Me This Is Sarcasm | Talking Points Memo - does Mika Brzezinski really chime in that her pick would have been Lincoln? (airhead Mika stupider than Palin: our elite media)

Op-Ed Contributors - Questions for the Big Bankers - NYTimes.com (excellent)
Jobless Claims, Retail Sales Show Economy Still Weak - CNBC new claims for unemployment insurance rose by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 444,000 (but Summers says "everyone agrees the recession is over)
DealBook Column - Wall St. Ethos Under Scrutiny at Financial Crisis Hearing - NYTimes.com
Record Year For Foreclosures: 2.8 Million Households Threatened In 2009, Up 21 Percent
December Retail Sales Drop .3 Percent, 2009 Sales See Biggest Drop In 27 Years (see: Larry Summers and the end of the recession)

Male Chromosome May Evolve Fastest - NYTimes.com - The decoding of the Y chromosome’s DNA was particularly difficult because the chromosome is full of palindromes — runs of DNA that read the same backward as forward — and repetitive sequences that confuse the decoding systems.
The Americanization of Mental Illness - NYTimes.com - We have for many years been busily engaged in a grand project of Americanizing the world’s understanding of mental health and illness. We may indeed be far along in homogenizing the way the world goes mad (disease model produces cruelty +Republicanization of mental illness)
MIT research finds 'noisiest' neurons persist in the adult brain New discovery likely to have significant influence on cell replacement therapies
American Obesity Rates Have Hit Plateau, C.D.C. Data Suggest - NYTimes.com
"Dinosaur-Sized Shark" Kills Tourist : Discovery News
Why is the news media comfortable with lying about science?
‘No such thing as safe cocaine use’ - Times Online

In Rebuke of China, Focus Falls on Cybersecurity - NYTimes.com
Obama backs Google in dispute with China - Telegraph The Obama administration has leapt to the defence of Google after the internet search giant threatened to pull the plug on its Chinese operations.
Technology Review: Google Reveals Chinese Espionage Efforts
Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » Ignoring the “Great Firewall of China”
Chinese entrepreneurs, investors on Google: ‘Just quit. We don’t care.’ | VentureBeat
Feature: Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I | KernelTrap
Mikey Hicks, 8, Can’t Get Off U.S. Terror Watch List - NYTimes.com

YouTube - BB King Calls This One Of His Best Performances
7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World | Cracked.com

Should You Pay to Read This? - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com (Jaron Lanier)
Findings - Jaron Lanier Is Rethinking the Open Nature of the Internet - NYTimes.com When does the wisdom of crowds give way to the meanness of mobs? (Jaron Lanier)
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Gory Antigora: Illusions of Capitalism and Computers Jaron Lanier
Edge; DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier
Can We Change the Web’s Culture of Nastiness? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Jaron Lanier Gets Old And Crotchety; Maybe He Should Kick Those Kids Off His Virtual Reality Lawn | Techdirt

Tell the FCC: Don't Let Hollywood Hijack the Internet | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Groups seek to challenge U.S. gov't on seized laptops
IPAM Freeware Download

011310
Haiti earthquake: thousands feared dead - Telegraph
U.N. Says Guatemalan Lawyer Hired His Own Killers - NYTimes.com


Giving corporations an outsized voice in elections - latimes.com Voters stand to lose out if the Supreme Court treats political spending by businesses and other big-money players as protected speech (Democracy is so 1700's)
Poll: More Think Health Care Reform Isn’t Ambitious Enough | The Plum Line (FAIL for all involved)
Will President Obama defend the 'Cadillac tax' to cut health-care costs? - washingtonpost.com
Eschaton Good Luck Sen. Gillibrand - Harold Ford Jr. is a slimier-than-most politician who wraps himself in sanctimony (+lies like a Republican +wtf, Bloomberg?)
Daily Kos: And WHY is Harold Ford being paid $1 million per year by Bank of America?
Daily Kos: New York listening tour, Harold Ford-style
Sarah Palin on Fox says she thought Iraq was behind 9/11 - Andy Barr - politico.com
Report: A Problem Finding Quality Recruits - Daily Press Across the country, 75 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 are unable to enlist because they failed to graduate from high school, have a criminal record or are physically unfit (no child left un-screwed)
Just like her newspaper preference: Palin says her "favorite" founder is "all of them" before eventually citing Washington | Media Matters for America (stupid and proud of it)
Wounded In Wars, Civilians Face Care Battle At Home : NPR

Goldman admits 'improper' actions in sales of securities | McClatchy
Leo Hindery, Jr.: The 'Real Unemployment' Needs Real Solutions - "Everyone agrees that the recession is over," said Larry Summers, President Obama's top economic advisor, on December 13 - But in fact real unemployment in the United States is stuck at a dismal 19%, a figure nearly twice the so-called official number
The Disposable Worker - BusinessWeek Pay is falling, benefits are vanishing, and no one's job is secure. How companies are making the era of the temp more than temporary

New Evidence for Black Holes
Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report -- Rogozov and Bermel 339: b4965 -- BMJ
The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | Cultivating Failure | Caitlin Flanagan With the Edible Schoolyard, and the thousands of similar programs, the idea of a school as a venue in which to advance a social agenda has reached rock bottom.

FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers | Threat Level | Wired.com (FBI: "we don't need no steenking due process")
Florida grandmother jailed 15 days for suspended license - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com (but it wasn't suspended)
Valet. > Living > Features > The Female Perspective - A Modern Guide to Dating
YouTube - Amazing Grace - A Cappella Multitrack
YouTube - Leadbelly: 3 songs, 1945
Court to RealNetworks: Stop Whining About RealDVD, It’s All Your Fault
RealNetworks' Founder Rob Glaser Steps Down as CEO -- SEATTLE, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire

Official Google Blog: A new approach to China We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.
Hillary :Statement on Google Operations in China
tianamen square - Google (misspelled) )
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Keeping your data safe
Twitter / WikiLeaks: Several rumours from google: China accessed google's US-gov intercept system which provides gmail subjects/dates
Adobe confirms 'sophisticated, coordinated' breach | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
Official Gmail Blog: Default https access for Gmail
Global Voices Online » China: Google’s possible exile leads to cyber protests; Netizens on move
Google May Close Operations in China - Video Library - The New York Times
China: Google attack part of widespread spying effort - Digital Lifestyle - Macworld UK Analysts see Google's threat to leave China as a public admission of corporate espionage

Official Google Docs Blog: Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs
Google GDrive Launches. Just Don’t Call It That.
Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee - The Rumpus.net

011210 Iraq invasion violated international law, Dutch inquiry finds | World news | guardian.co.uk
US Investigating 38 Cases of Reconstruction Abuse - NYTimes.com ("non-Afgans" and ... but what about ACORN!)
Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Ledeen Doctrine "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business." (and kill a million people just for fun and profit)
Pentagon Scientists Target Iran’s Nuclear Molemen | Danger Room | Wired.com
Emptywheel » SCOTUS Scuttles Prop 8 Video Coverage; The History Behind The Denial
Haiti Earthquake: 7.0 Quake Prompts Tsunami Watch
Port in N.C. closed after containers with explosive material punctured - CNN.com - a forklift unloading a vessel punctured a large container and the drums inside it that contained the explosive compound PETN (wtf?)

CQ: Obama's Winning Streak On Hill Unprecedented : NPR
White House Opposes Harold Ford’s Challenge to Gillibrand - NYTimes.com (sure they do)
Daily Kos: A Caution for the WH: Public Doesn't Think Health Insurance Bill is Strong Enough
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The fundamental unreliability of America's media
New York Times Company : Company : Business Units : Guidelines on Integrity (policy on anonymous sources which they ignore when they feel like it)
Veteran journalist blasts "convoluted" Halperin/Heilemann explanation of their ground rules | Media Matters for America
A Torturous Interview: John Yoo Does The Daily Show (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire
Firedoglake » Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow Shines a Spotlight on Liz Cheney’s Dishonest Political Advocacy
Five Million Americans Hang in the Balance Between the House, Senate Health Bills -- Politics Daily
Chuck Norris Hunts for Obama's 'Secret Vault' as Interpol Conspiracy Theories Get Wilder - Declassified Blog - Newsweek.com (the pits of stupidity)
Full Body Scanner Lobby: Michael Chertoff & Rapiscan | NowPublic News Coverage

Harry R. Lewis: Larry Summers, Robert Rubin: Will The Harvard Shadow Elite Bankrupt The University And The Country? (history of complete failure +total secrecy)
Even in a Recovery, Some Jobs Won't Return - WSJ.com
No Seat for Wall Street at Tea Party - WSJ.com (the stupid may finally be waking up)
Obama Weighs Tax on Banks to Recoup Bailout Aid and Cut Deficit - NYTimes.com
BBC News - Federal Reserve makes record $52.1bn profit
Terrible Timing? Goldman's Bonus Bonanza Taking Stock of Some of the Individuals Set to Reap Outsized Pay Packages
Schwarzenegger budget ax would fall heavily on poor | Reuters (Republicans at work)

FoxNews, WattsUpWithThat push falsehood-filled Daily Mail article on global cooling that utterly misquotes, misrepresents work of Mojib Latif and NSIDC « Climate Progress Latif told me: "I don't know what to do. They just make these things up." NSIDC Director Serreze says it is "completely false." (SOP)
The Australian's War on Science 42 : Deltoid : Christopher Monckton makes shit up

Swine flu 'a false pandemic' to sell vaccines, expert says | The Daily Telegraph
Lizards' Camouflage Reveals Evolution in Action : Discovery News These desert lizards' accelerated evolution could provide researchers with new insights into how species form
Hijacking History | The Texas Tribune (Texas making the whole country stupid)
Bird-plane collisions may pass 10,000, a first - Yahoo! News
Team predicts satellite could locate hundreds of Earth-sized planets
The decline and fall of high-fructose corn syrup. - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine

Police fight cellphone recordings - The Boston Globe Witnesses taking audio of officers arrested, charged with illegal surveillance
Cougars In Training - MSN Relationships - article While some 40-plus women are rejecting the cougar label, there's a younger set of females who want to co-opt the title prematurely. Meet … the pumas.
Skeptic » eSkeptic » Audiophoolery - by Ethan Winer
[Citation Needed]

Cost-benefit analysis: net neutrality makes economic sense A new study warns that abandoning network neutrality could transfer billions of dollars from the most competitive sector of the Internet (online content) to the least (Internet service providers).
Google learning that users want real support for Nexus One
Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street View What Happens When Somebody Wants to Put a Virtual Ad on Your Real-Life Billboard?
s Praetorian Prefect | Baidu.com the Latest Victim of Iranian CyberArmy
Facebook dismisses rumours of charging plans - Telegraph

011110
Military Deluged in Drone Intelligence - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor - Russian Advice on Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Sunday Book Review: The Great Gamble (Afganistan and the Russians)
Celebrate Gitmo's Eighth Birthday With A McClatchy Read-In (someone still doing reporting)
Video | MiamiHerald.com | Never-before-seen photos of Guantanamo detainees
Palestinian official: Israel razed 150 Arab homes in West Bank - Haaretz - Israel News
'Hillary effect' cited for increase in female ambassadors to U.S. - washingtonpost.com
Torture caught on camera in UAE | GlobalPost
Heathrow robbery trial breaks with 400-year tradition of trial by jury | UK news | The Guardian
Rape: It's a war crime - Los Angeles Times

Court Rulings Erode Spending Restrictions for Elections - NYTimes.com (as much speech as money can buy)
Common Sense World » Blog Archive » Congressional Reform Act of (2010) (only hope for preserving democracy_

Hillary Clinton doesn't believe word about alleged Chuck Schumer betrayal portrayed in 'Game Change'
Obama, labor leaders to square off over tax on high-cost health plans - TheHill.com Labor sources acknowledge they will not succeed in completely eliminating the tax (Rahm's bright idea)
FDL Action » Krugman Shoots the Messenger: Blames Wheeler, FDL for Fueling “Fake Scandal” over Gruber
Firedoglake » Try not to be shocked, Civilian Courts much more effective than Military Tribunals
Supreme court blocks broadcasting of gay marriage case - Yahoo! News (in case you were wondering where they stood)
Prop. 8 trial to include unprecedented testimony - latimes.com Challengers of the same-sex marriage ban plan to call to the stand homosexual couples, experts on the history of sexual discrimination and marriage, and the architects of the ballot measure.
Manslaughter defense possible | CJOnline.com A man accused of killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers can try to build a case that the slaying was voluntary manslaughter because he sincerely believed it was necessary to save unborn babies, a Kansas judge ruled Friday.
National Abortion Federation: Clinic Violence: Army of God
Hullabaloo: tristero: MoDo Wants A Daddy (they never got out of jr high)
Hullabaloo: digby: They All Want A Daddy
Maybe Sarah Palin's Doing The Best She Can (special-needs Republicans)
Authors: McCain aides worried that Palin was ‘mentally unstable’ | Raw Story
BBC News - Sarah Palin signs on as a commentator with Fox News
Palin To Become Fox News Contributor | TPM LiveWire
Book: Obama, Biden clashed in '08 - Jonathan Martin
National Journal Online - White House Readies Aggressive Midterm Push Axelrod Says Focus Will Be On Republican Alternatives (Obama to go all partisan on their asses)
AMERICAblog News: A tale of two Jindals (black or white? you decide)
Profiling Will Never Work - The Daily Beast Peter - Beinart

BBC News - Cleaners 'worth more to society' than bankers - study
S.E.C. Seeks New Charge Against Bank of America - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com
Federal Reserve Seeks to Protect U.S. Bailout Secrets - Bloomberg.com (all you need to know)
Krugman - Learning From Europe - NYTimes.com
N.Y. Attorney General Cuomo seeks bonus details at 8 largest banks - washingtonpost.com
Geithner called to explain AIG bailout secrecy - Yahoo! News
politico Morning Money - Obama budget likely to include (as yet undetermined) fee on banks to help taxpayers recoup cost of bailout -- Romer still sees recovery beginning in spring (and they'll pass on the fees to you, who gave them the money in the first place)
The 2010 Political Timebomb Is Unemployment
In Retrospect - Executives on How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong - NYTimes.com

A massive star is born
Green Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant | Wired Science | Wired.com (plantanimal)
Egypt Tombs Suggest Pyramids Not Built by Slaves - ABC News
the adventure life | The Dark Side of the Moon Ain’t So Dark
Jenny McCarthy Dismisses Pediatrics Study on Autism : Discovery News - “Mommy Doctorate” M.D which is sort of like saying that owning a car qualifies a person as a mechanic

Prisoners of Parole - NYTimes.com
Daily Kos: Feminism Fail (traditional orgs - HRC, NOW, NARAL, PP, Emily's List, Komen - are broken +nestbuilding +nowhere to be seen on Stupak +"do nothing strategy")
Does the National Enquirer Deserve a Pulitzer for Breaking the John Edwards Scandal? -- Politics Daily
A pilot's life: exhausting hours for meagre wages | World news | The Guardian $20,000 pay and lengthy commutes to work renew fears for passengers' safety
French court says 'oui' on workplace smut • The Register
YouTube - l'enculade medievale
Paige Williams – Journalism, etc. – About The Dolly Freed Story

Mark Green: How The Sixties Still Influence America In 2010 - Politics - Air America
What If Apple Designed Cars? HuffPost Photoshop Contest (you'd only have a license and couldn't work on it yourself)
Photos: World's Worst Rotten Rich Kids - Newsweek
15 Celeb Couples That Still Baffle Us

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg causes stir over privacy
Site's terms still enforceable even if users never read them
Dear Musicians – The Web Is Not A TV Channel | pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four's Music and Media Blog
Santa Fe Wi-Fi Fears Keep Getting Weirder - Man sues neighbor for refusing to turn off wireless - dslreports.com
Demonic Squirrel Motorcycle Riding Story
Top 5 Reasons Porn-for-Profit Is Dying - The Daily Beast
Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time
MediaShift . Your Guide to Cutting the Cord to Cable TV | PBS
AndroidGuys
Phone Scoop

011010
Nuclear threat demands a sustained U.S. effort  | ajc.com By Howard James Hubbard and Leon Lederman
Daily Kos: US National Security Policy And Nuclear Weapons: Perspectives on the Nuclear Posture Review
FP Passport | New details emerge about the CIA bomber
democracyarsenal.org: Afghanistan Cluster&%$! Watch
BBC News - Israelis reject George Mitchell loan guarantee 'threat' Israeli officials have shrugged off a suggestion that the US could withhold loan guarantees to pressure Israel over the Middle East peace process (the Fuck You State)
FDL News Desk » Afghan President Karzai: “Corruption? What Corruption?”
Informed Comment: Iraq, Gaza, Drone Strikes in Pakistan-- the Radicalization of CIA Assassin Humam al-Balawi Unjust wars and occupations radicalize people. The American Right wing secretly knows this, but likes the vicious circle it produces. Wars make profits for the military-industrial complex, and the resulting terrorism terrifies the clueless US public and helps hawks win elections, allowing them to pursue further wars. And so it goes, until the Republic is bankrupted and in ruins and its unemployed have to live in tent cities.
Officials Obscured Truth of Migrant Deaths in Jail - NYTimes.com (disgusting criminality by ICE: 107 deaths in detention: they might as well have just shot them)
Italians cheer as police move African immigrants out after clashes with locals | World news | The Observer Mafia involvement is suspected as riots leave scores injured
Who will pay for Amazon's 'Chernobyl'? - Green Living, Environment - The Independent A film released this week in Britain recounts the 16-year battle by Ecuadorians for damages against Chevron for oil pollution

Senate poll: Coakley up 15 points - The Boston Globe
Poll: Scott Brown ahead of Martha Coakley by 1 point - The Scorecard - politico.com
Cavuto's flawed "global warming alert": "It is freezing across the entire globe" | Media Matters for America (Foxhole morons)
Think Progress » Right-Wing Radio Host Incensed That ‘Butt Sniffer’ Michael Steele Canceled Appearance On Her Show (teapartiers pissed: "butt-sniffer")
ATTACKERMAN » Hillary Mann Leverett Pwns Jeffrey Goldberg (beautiful)
Dohiyi Mir<: Five Pointed Palm Exploding Heart Technique (activisism requires, you know, action) /a>
An Excerpt From John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' -- New York Magazine - Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster - inside the Edwards triangle, nothing was too crazy to be true.

BBC News - China 'overtakes Germany as world's largest exporter'
Op-Ed Columnist - The Other Plot to Wreck America - NYTimes.com what Warren Buffett called the “financial weapons of mass destruction” that wrecked our economy (too late for reform, thanks, Barry)
For Wall St., Question on Top Bonuses Is 7 Figures or 8 - NYTimes.com - it looks as if it will be one of the largest and most controversial blowouts the industry has ever seen (good job, Barry)
Keeping America's Edge > Publications > National Affairs (confiration bias: see Krugman)
European decline — a further note - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com - It’s probably not a deliberate case of data falsification. Instead, like so many conservatives, Manzi just knew that Europe is an economic disaster, glanced at some numbers, thought he saw his assumptions confirmed, and never checked.
Emptywheel » Gruber Caveats the “Excise Tax Raise” Claim
Corrections - Correction - NYTimes.com - On Friday, Professor Gruber confirmed reports that he is a paid consultant to the Department of Health and Human Services, and that his contract was in effect when he published his article. The article did not disclose this relationship to readers (paid flack)
Stockton, California Is Foreclosureville, USA, Has One Of The Worst Foreclosure Rates In The United Sates
Firedoglake » Deliberately flouting securities law or grossly derelict in his duties? Tough call for Tim Geithner (if this had been anyone else but a Republican banker +conflicting stories

A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health (GM corn is toxic)
Steven Newton: Science Denial on the Rise (land of the stupid)
Some "Non-Avian Feathered Dinosaurs" May Have Been Birds : Discovery News (quacks like a bird)
Howstuffworks "Top 5 Unsolved Brain Mysteries" (cognitive scientiests will solve these any day now)
Mirror testing breaks superstitious myths | R&D Mag
HubbleSite - NewsCenter - Galaxy History Revealed in This Colorful Hubble View (01/05/2010) - Release Images

Gay marriage, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, and the Supreme Court : The New Yorker Is it too soon to petition the Supreme Court on gay marriage?
The Lawless Netherworlds of Gay Relationships in The Ballad of Tila Tequila
The New Cavemen Lifestyle Has Found a Home in the City - NYTimes.com
Myleene Klass warned after brandishing knife to deter intruders | UK news | guardian.co.uk Police tell TV presenter she was acting illegally in waving kitchen knife at youths who were peering in window late at night (no waving knives in your own home in UK: carrying an "offensive weapon", even in her own home, was illegal: will confiscate all steak knives and scissors)
Relatious | Relatious is a micro blogging place to share all aspects of your relationships
Body of Answers - Secure Computing: Sec-C (update on Victoria's Secret photoshopping analysis)

The World Question Center 2010 : How Is The Internet Changing The Way You Think?

Hands-On With the Boxee Set-Top Box and Remote | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Why People Don't Like Video Chatting - TIME (Only 34% of Skype calls even use video.
So What Should Motorola Do Now? – GigaOM
Google nexus one | Just another blog about buying a google nexus one
HowardForums: Your Mobile Phone Community & Resource - Nexus One Compared to N900 and iPhone 3GS (Long Post)
Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over
A Closer Look at Facebook's New Privacy Options
Five Best DVD-Ripping Tools - dvd ripping - Lifehacker
Welcome to Moodio! | Moodio

010910
Imposing Middle East Peace Israel has crossed the threshold from "the only democracy in the Middle East" to the only apartheid regime in the Western world (call Abe Foxman)
Hugo Hernandez: Mexico Cartel Stitches Rival's Face On Soccer Ball (Republican war on drugs is killing everyone)
Iris Robinson: Mrs. Robinson's Affair With Teen Rocks Northern Ireland an affair by 58-year-old woman named Mrs. Robinson with a 19-year-old male lover (and she was corrupt)
From bikinis to burkas - The Globe and Mail - A Yemeni memoir (fundamentalists rolling back the clock)
The Memory Bank » Blog Archive » The digital revolution and me
In France, a Move to Outlaw Psychological Abuse in Marriage - Yahoo! News

Court Rulings Erode Spending Restrictions for Elections - NYTimes.com (Republicans drive another stake into the corpse of democracy)
Fool Me Over and Over and Over Again - Dan Froomkin - "the dangers when editors run with exclusive leaked material in politically charged circumstances and fail to push back skeptically." (elite media fail; blow-dry Georgie is the model +Pentagon Fog Machine)
Seton Hall | Law - Guantánamo Reports (pack of lies from the Pentagon)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - Helen Thomas deviates from the terrorism script: until they all just decide to ignore her (they hate us for our freedoms)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - More cause and effect in our ever-expanding "war" - it is taboo to discuss how America's actions in the Middle East cause Terrorism (the word Israel cant be mentioned)
Obama Weekly Address: President Details Changes In Health Care Legislation (depends what you mean by "affordable")
Echidne Of The Snakes: And thus consumers are mandated to buy a policy, however crappy, however full of holes, from private companies only
Think Progress » GOP Senate Candidate Rep. Mike Castle Takes Credit For Over $5 Million In Stimulus Funds He Voted To Kill (Republicans at work: lying+hypocrisy)
Instant Pithyness Corrupts Instantly - Conor Friedersdorf - Metablog - True/Slant (InstaFuck)

Huff TV: ABC News Profiles Move Your Money (VIDEO) aims to change the practices of America's too-big-to-fail banks by encouraging account holders at those banks to withdraw their money and deposit it into smaller community banks or credit unions.
Nine Months Later, Obama Plan To Help 1.5 Million Struggling Homeowners Yet To Launch (completely useless fail)
The Changing Nature of Employment in the Great Recession
California Requests Billions From U.S. - WSJ.com (another Republican failure)
Project Syndicate - Grandmasters and Global Growth

Watch "Rachel Maddow's Blistering Commentary of Rudy Giuliani Over His 9/11 Comments" Video at mediaite (the mayor of 9/11: the end of his career)
What came first in the origin of life? New study contradicts the 'metabolism first' hypothesis the basic property of life as a system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution began when genetic information was finally stored and transmitted such as occurs in nucleotide polymers (RNA and DNA).
Seeing Further edited by Bill Bryson | Book review | Books | The Guardian n November 1660, the world was a mysterious place. There was no explanation for the rise and ebb of the tides. Air was a puzzling, invisible fluid with unexplained properties. There was no known way to measure the height of a mountain. Minerals were produced by "certain subterranean juices through veins of the earth".
Begley: Does the Internet Change How We Think? - Sharon Begley - Newsweek.com (no, and you aren't multitasking either, you're just stupider)
Heavy Brows, High Art?: Newly Unearthed Painted Shells Show Neandertals Were Homo sapiens 's Mental Equals: Scientific American Neandertals were capable of symbolism, sweeping away age-old thinking that they were stupid
Snow stories: rare self-rolling snow balls found in UK - Telegraph
Genetics: Monogamouse | The Economist Genetically modified prairie voles may illuminate the human condition
How the Scientist Got His Ideas - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Study says Texas death penalty a homicide deterrent | Chronicle | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle “Evidence exists of modest, short-term reductions in the numbers of homicides in Texas in the month of or after executions,
Pasadena's ESolar lands 2,000-megawatt deal in China - latimes.com
Top 10 Places You Can’t Go - Listverse
A Peek Into Netflix Queues - NYTimes.com
YouTube - The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again, Drum Cover, 4 Year Old Drummer

Ant Has Given Up Sex Completely, Researchers Confirm
Men think about sex 5,000 times a year - Telegraph but only get down to doing it 104 times, a new study has found.
Sherri Shepherd Reads Hilarious Excerpts From Madonna's "Sex" (video)
7 Kinds of Sex Every Couple Needs
YouTube - Are Woman as horny as men?

4 Quick Sites That Let You Check if Links Are Safe
Don’t Miss These Twitter and Facebook Guides « HeyJude

010810
Afghan war kills three children a day: report - Yahoo! News (Obama's war on terrorist babies)
New Civilian Deaths Roil Afghans Thousands of Afghans shouting "Death to America!" protested the killings of children Thursday, the latest in a string of controversial cases in which international forces have been blamed for civilian deaths.
British woman 'arrested in Dubai after being raped' - Telegraph
BBC News - Malaysian churches fire-bombed as 'Allah' row escalates - Muslim groups are angry at a court decision allowing non-Muslims to use the word Allah to refer to God ("Allah" copyrighted by Muslims)
U.S. appeals court wary of habeas corpus challenge by detainees in Afghanistan - washingtonpost.com
Concern as China clamps down on rare earth exports - Asia, World - The Independent Neodymium is one of 17 metals crucial to green technology. There’s only one snag – China produces 97% of the world’s supply. And they’re not selling
IEEE Spectrum: The Rare-Earth-Metal Bottleneck: China produces most of the world's rare earth metals, and soon it will need all that it produces (all your electronics are dead)

The Butt Bomb | The New Republic Al Qaeda's hidden weapon (scanners useless: full body cavity search neccessary for all flyers, including pilots)
BBC News - World News America - Matt Frei's diary: Dangerous minds
Firedoglake » Those Who Misinterpret The Past Are Unable To Repeat It (Obama is no FDR even though Rahm thought bailing out rich bankers would look like 1934)
Emptywheel » Gruber Doesn’t Reveal that 21% of MA Residents Can’t Afford Health Care
Mr. 9/11 Gets Amnesia: 'We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush; We've Had One Under Obama' (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire
Rudy Giuliani Wrong in Saying ‘No Domestic Attacks Under Bush’ - George's Bottom Line (puff-ball Georgie issues a statement on his blog, couldn't mention it on air: Republican liars always get free passes)
YouTube - Rudy Giuliani [2004 Republican National Convention] part 1/4
George Stephanopoulos, Ali Wentworth Shopping For $40K/Month New York Rental: NYP
Worst RNC cash flow in a decade - TheHill.com 2009 - spending spree
The Washington Monthly - Michael Steele'S Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week.
GOP Rep Launches Terror News YouTube Series, Warns Of Muslim Brotherhood Plot | TPMMuckraker - Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC)
DownWithTyranny!: Lynne Woolsey Betrays Progressive Movement-- Raises Money For Blue Dog Jane Harman (self-described as "the best Republican in the Democratic Party.")
What if 2010 is Like 1982?
Fox's Andrew Napolitano: "If the feds had not stripped us" of gun rights, "9-11 would never have happened" | Media Matters for America (you know, the right to pack heat on airlines)

NY Fed, AIG Emails Spark New, Bipartisan Criticism Of Geithner - White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that Geithner, who he said "was not involved" in the emails, still had President Obama's full confidence (Obama won't release documents)
Firedoglake » Trouble for Geithner? TARP IG Barofsky Has Open Investigation
Wall Street Reform: Traditional Foes Join Forces To Take On Bankers energy companies, airlines, truckers, farmers and other end users of derivatives, along with unions, consumer advocates and a host of progressive organizations.
Calculated Risk: Unemployed over 26 Weeks, Diffusion Index, Seasonal Retail Hiring
Lawsuit: Goldman Sachs bonuses bigger than its earnings | Raw Story (no problem, they'll use your money to make up the difference)
Goldman Sachs Wasting Shareholder Money On Huge Bonuses, Fiduciary Duty 'Wholly Abdicated,' According To Two New Lawsuits
Contrarian Investor Predicts Economic Crash in China - NYTimes.com “Dubai times 1,000 — or worse,” (but: Quantum Fund Jim Rogers says: “China is not in a bubble.” )
Op-Ed Columnist - Bubbles and the Banks - NYTimes.com For there’s a populist rage building in this country, and President Obama’s kid-gloves treatment of the bankers has put Democrats on the wrong side of this rage (Corporate Barry will pay the price)
Feinberg Says Lack of Pay Authority Is Disappointment - Bloomberg.com (of course, Obama made sure he had no power)
Simon Johnson: We're Setting Ourselves Up For A Big Catastrophe, 'Crisis Is Just Beginning' (Video) ("the next phase of the financial crisis could be precipitated by banks exploiting emerging markets like China)
Yahoo CEO Gives Herself B-Minus Grade in First Year (Update2) - Bloomberg.com - Carol Bartz (see: Autodesk)
1 in 5 Working-Age American Men Don't Have A Job
Best and Worst Jobs 2010 - The Wall Street Journal

New approach to fighting Alzheimer’s shows potential in clinical trial Nutrient mix shows promise in improving memory - — uridine, choline and the omega-3 fatty acid DHA (all normally present in breast milk) — are precursors to the fatty molecules that make up brain cell membranes, which form synapses
Scientists stalk the H1N1 virus - Orlando Sentinel Lab keeps watch for dangerous genetic jump
Evolutionary surprise: Eight percent of human genetic material comes from a virus - this virally transmitted DNA may be a cause of mutation and psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and mood disorder (Bornavirus)
The recession hits science MIT report reveals biotechnology funding troubles
First Earth-like planet spotted outside solar system likely a volcanic wasteland
Having sex twice a week 'reduces chance of heart attack by half' - Telegraph (in men)
Physicists Solve Difficult Classical Problem with One Quantum Bit
Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its Time - Technology - io9 the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a device so astonishing that its discovery is like finding a functional Buick in medieval Europe.
Finding 'Beautiful' Symmetry Near Absolute Zero | 89.3 KPCC - a kind of symmetry known as E8
African elephants could be extinct in 15 years

ABC beauty Bianna Golodryga, fiancee of Obama budget boss Orszag, was busted for DWI in 2000
Virginia mulls discrimination against divorced parents: child support college mandate Married parents don't have any legal obligation to pay for their adult children's college education or living expenses. But a bill just introduced in Virginia's legislature would require divorced parents to pay for such expenses (next: force divorced men to pay for graduate school and new cars)
Woe, Woe, Woe: Doesn't Get Much Worse Than This - Hartford Courant New Jersey, Connecticut and New York. (are very, very, unhappy)
A Champion of Black History - Los Angeles Times Librarian Mayme Clayton, who scoured stores, attics and even dumps to amass a prized collection that she kept in her garage, has died.
Bodega Down Bronx: Places: Design Observer
YouTube - Best/Most motivational video in the world.
Doctor sentenced to 5 years in prison for assaulting bicyclists in Brentwood | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

Story Lab - Solving the bra color Facebook puzzle
In the name of awareness « Toddler Planet (Breast Cancer "awareness" marketing)
Facebook status...why is nearly every1 on my FB putting black or white on there status? - Yahoo! Answers
YouTube - Pink Ribbons (Penn and Teller)
A Gender Gap in Cancer The progress against prostate cancer greatly lags breast cancer research and treatment options (BC gets 2X funding of PC)
Cancer Research Funding - National Cancer Institute
Common Cancer Types - National Cancer Institute - type/new cases/deaths
CDC - Women's Health - Leading Causes of Death in Females
About The Heart Truth, HHS, NIH, NHLBI
Cancer Funding: Does It Add Up? - Well Blog - NYTimes.com - Breast Cancer Deaths: (41,430) N.C.I. funding per death: $13,452 / Prostate Cancer Deaths (27,350) N.C.I. funding per death: $11,298
The Marketing of Breast Cancer | | AlterNet (2002: Komen Foundation, creator of the 110-city Race for the Cure, is tied up in private interests that run counter to its charity-driven mission)
Tampabay: All may not be in the pink A pink-powered campaign has raised breast cancer awareness, but has commercialization of it been a healthy effect? (2006)
Pink Ribbons, Inc. Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy
Think Before You Pink »
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bait and Switch: Welcome to Cancerland

EclippTV :: Video :: Police use Drones to spy on Americans!! (next: targeted assassinations)
No Longer Sexiled: Universities Grapple with Sex in Dorms | RHRealityCheck.org ufts University officially banned students from having sex in residence hall room when a roommate is present

Sleep Talkin' Man
Best of 2009: DSLR Cameras
Beautiful | Disgusting
The 12 sci-fi/fantasy movies you HAVE to see in 2010 | SCI FI Wire
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski What if... William Shakespeare wrote The Big Lebowski?

Why the White House is backing away from Net neutrality | Wireless - CNET News (why do you think?)
The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2010
Windows 7: Surprisingly nice UI - even to a Mac user - Computerworld Blogs
MagicJack's Next Act: Disappearing Cell Phone Fees - ABC News
Art Fag City » IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

010710
Obama: The Buck Stops With Me ("We are at war, we are at war against al-Qaida," he said. "We will do whatever it takes to defeat them.)
Next stop: Yemen - chicagotribune.com - There were many other ways we could have responded to 9/11 besides all-out wars, such as police and intelligence actions against particular al-Qaida actors, but those paths were not chosen (this: sanity)
Suicide Bombing Puts a Rare Face on C.I.A.’s Work - NYTimes.com
Deadly Explosion Arouses New Afghan Anger at U.S. - NYTimes.com (we've learned nothing)
Interactive: Each US Soldier in Afghanistan Costs $1 Million - Newsweek.com
BBC News - Newsnight - Witch-doctors reveal extent of child sacrifice in Uganda (but what about the homos?)
Security test exposed people to great danger - The Irish Times - Thu, Jan 07, 2010
Canada's Parliament: Harper goes prorogue | The Economist Parliamentary scrutiny may be tedious, but democracies cannot afford to dispense with it

James Jones: National Security Adviser Says Christmas Bomber Report Will 'Shock' (Video) "That's two strikes,"
Health Affairs Blog: Health Care Reform: State Winners And Losers: the states most likely to benefit from the health care reform tend to have Republican representatives in the Congress who actively work against the reform
Emptywheel » White House Still Pushing the Excise Tax Hocus Pocus (smoke and mirrors from Corporate Barry)
Obama Tells House Democrats He Supports Senate Tax On Cadillac Health Care Plans (tell Dems to act like Republicans)
Health-care reform bill's proposed tax on high-cost plans raises questions - "Employers, the theory goes, would put the savings into higher wages." (yeah, that'll happen)
Jon Stewart Plays "Sad Libs" To Educate Us On Yemen - "That's Yemen. A place we'll be hearing about for 24 hours a day until we get bogged down there and the insurgency moves to Oman." (Video)
Todd Harris, GOP Strategist, DECIMATED By Chris Matthews - "Tell me what the Republican party has done for this country in the last ten to 20 years" (crickets) (video)
Hullabaloo: tristero: "Death For Gays" And American Christianism (the connections the NYT refuses to make)
Hullabaloo: digby: Ann Stone's Psychic Friends Network - pro-choice Republicans are just like the rest of them (fake PAC took the money and ran)
Judge: Gay Marriage Trial Must Go on YouTube
TBogg » Ann Coulter knows many things about foreskins and anal (but she's right)

YouTube - Noam Chomsky on the Role of the Educational System (educated stupid)
Global Guerrillas: You Are In Control - Median male incomes today are the same as they were in 1974

Geithner’s Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure (smoking gun found) - Bloomberg.com
Geithner’s dubious AIG cover up « naked capitalism - Damaging e-mails have revealed that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged AIG to withhold crucial information about the deterioration of its financial condition in the lead up to its demise. This will put further political pressure on Geithner, who has already been exposed for his dubious role in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy ("This was looting and a cover-up plain and simple.") (Obama's bankster-boy)
E-mails from N.Y. Fed to A.I.G. to Not Disclose Counterparty Payments
UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld deserves statue on Wall Street, not prison sentence (tell the truth about Wall Street? Go to jail +"Wolf and his employees donated $540,000 to Obama's presidential run. That made UBS the 12th largest source of his campaign funds.")
Why Is the Whistleblower Who Exposed the Massive UBS Tax Evasion Scheme the Only One Heading to Prison?
The Way We Live Now - Walk Away From Your Mortgage! - NYTimes.com

Daily Kos: Freak Current Takes Gulf Stream to Greenland
The Galilean Revolution, 400 years later | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Is spanking children OK? Calvin College professor's research shows adults who remember being spanked are more well-adjusted | Grand Rapids News - - MLive.com (Calvin, a "distincively Christian" college)
Firedoglake » Late Night: Idiot “Conservatives” Turn to Nigerian E-Mail Scam Model to Harass Scientists
Mystery of World's Biggest Beasts Possibly Solved | LiveScience The origins of the largest animals in the world, the baleen whales, might be rooted in the mud, which they potentially sucked up like vacuum cleaners,
Oldest Land-Walker Tracks Found--Pushes Back Evolution
BBC News - Female toads inflate to avoid sex
Fighting Jet Lag May Help Cephalon Extend Patent on Nuvigil - NYTimes.com Nuvigil from Cephalon, could become the first medicine specifically approved by the Food and Drug Administration to combat jet lag.
Respecting your elders in your genes, finds monkey study - Telegraph

UPI POY 2009 - News and Features - UPI.com
Schwarzenegger Seeks Shift From Prisons to Schools - NYTimes.com - “This is a historic and transforming realignment of California’s priorities.” (which had been locking everyone up)
Paterson’s State of State Speech Chastises New York Lawmakers - NYTimes.com (thoroughly corrupt)
Media: A world of hits | The Economist - Ever-increasing choice was supposed to mean the end of the blockbuster. It has had the opposite effect
Casey Johnson's Friends Accuse Tila Tequila Of Publicity Whoring (dead on the floor for days?)
Casey Johnson, Tila Tequila's Fiancee, Dead at 30 - Casey Johnson - Zimbio authorities now believe she had been dead for several days (wtf?)
Casey Johnson Dead At Age 30
Susan Sarandon's Life Post Split: Sexy Nightspots and Flirting - Susan Sarandon : People.com

How to say stupid things about social media | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Dual Boot Your Pre-Installed Windows 7 Computer with XP - the How-To Geek
Nexus One vs iPhone 3GS vs Droid vs Pre: The Definitive Comparison - Google nexus one - Gizmodo

010610
Slow Start for Military Corps in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
Drone Strikes Reported in Pakistan - NYTimes.com
Iran Shielding Its Nuclear Efforts in Maze of Tunnels - NYTimes.com
Hamas 2010 budget mainly 'foreign aid' from Iran
BBC News - 'Flaws' in key Lockerbie evidence An investigation by BBC's Newsnight has cast doubts on the key piece of evidence which convicted the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi (remember when American media went nuts on this one?)
Britain threatens to freeze Iceland out of EU as loan payback vetoed - Times Online (foreclose and sell it to the Russians)
Jon Danielsson: The bill equates to £40,000 per family - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent
U.S. learned intelligence on airline bomb suspect while he was en route - latimes.com
Firedoglake » Obama’s Interrogation Policy and the Use of Torture in the Army Field Manual
Double Atomic Bomb Survivor Dies In Japan : NPR

The Tax Foundation - Federal Taxes Paid vs. Federal Spending Received by State, 1981-2005 (Red States leach off the Blue States) (if money is speech, how about the contributors get more?)

Sidebar - Group That Shaped Death Penalty Gives Up on Its Own Work - NYTimes.com (pro-death group pronounces: FAIL)
Obama: Hurry Up On Health Care, Bypass Usual Negotiations (leading from behind)
Byron Dorgan To Retire, Not Seek Re-Election (+Bill Ritter: Dems bailing on corporate Barry: incrementalize this!)
The Fix - Chris Dodd to step aside (Blumenthal swap +"Rep. Chris Murphy could be the long-term beneficiary as he is widely regarded as a rising star and would be at the top of the list of Democratic hopefuls to challenge Lieberman in 2012.")
Banks' Favorite Dem Set To Chair Banking Committee (however, Tim Johnson S.D.) )
Bloomberg - AIG Firestorm Has Democrats Edgy About Geithner, Team (from March 2009: Christopher Dodd added to the criticism, saying he weakened a provision dealing with executive pay and bonuses in last month’s stimulus legislation at the request of the Obama administration - corporate Barry's AIG giveaway)
Harold Ford Weighs a Challenge to Gillibrand - NYTimes.com (carpetbagger from TN, supported by Rahm)
Graham: Censure by few isn't a rebuke - S.C. Politics - TheState.com Graham on Tuesday dismissed his censure by the Lexington County Republican Party as the "misplaced priorities" of narrow interests within the larger Republican Party - not a rebuke of him (ambushed by Ron Paul supporter)
John Cherry Drops Out Of Michigan Governor's Race Michigan Lieutenant Governor John Cherry has dropped out of the race for governor, reports WLNS news. Cherry was thought to be the Democratic frontrunner in the upcoming primary.
Cantor Targets 37 Democratic Lawmakers To Switch Health Care Vote
What’s the Outlook for Democrats? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
FDL News Desk » Report: White House To Re-Nominate Dawn Johnsen For OLC Chief
FDL Action » Top 20 Democrats Who Could Lose Their Seats Over Health Care Vote

The Atlantic Online | January/February 2010 | How America Can Rise Again | James Fallows
Ezra Klein - Anti-filibuster weekend there's no way to highlight Republican obstruction if Democrats can't stop the most conservative members of their party from breaking ranks in order to extort concessions
Ezra Klein - End the filibuster! An interview with Sen. Tom Harkin
The Case For An E-Congress - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
TheBurningPlatform.com » Economy » American Pie “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
Awaiting the start of the 21st century - FT???

Swaggering, sneering incivility — Crooked Timber -> Clive Crook
Conundrum@state.ak.us, part II Alaska government, Palin was to learn, is more like a heavily laden oil tanker bound south from Valdez than the nimble fishing boats on which she and husband Todd buzz across the waters of Bristol Bay in summer.
Politico's Cheney Coverage: Editor Defends Its Stenography
Matthew Yglesias » Lane on Cost-Control there’s a certain kind of individual—heavily represented in the Washington Post opinion pages—whose interest in public policy seems largely motivated by a kind of rancid misanthropy (Charles Lane, WaPo misanthrope)
The Washington Monthly- ABC News to report that "Democrats are dropping like flies." - but Republican retirements, at least for now, outnumber Democratic retirements.
Houston's 61st Mayor: Annise Parker's Public Inauguration Ceremony - Houston - Slideshows (+Fred Phelps)
The Daily Show’s John Oliver Makes Fun Of FOX’s Hannity, Beck And O’Reilly Saying America Used To Be Better. | StoryBalloon.Org/Videos

Economic Scene - If the Fed Missed That Bubble, How Will It See a New One? - NYTimes.com If only we’d had more power, we could have kept the financial crisis from getting so bad (they were always wrong)
“All Serious Economists Agree” « The Baseline Scenario (that TOO BIG TO FAIL is a huge problem, contra conventional wisdom)
Fed's Hoenig backs bank break-ups where needed | Reuters - Hoenig stopped short of calling for restoration of Glass-Steagall banking laws that barred large banks from affiliating with securities firms and engaging in the insurance business
Wonk Room » Fed Official: ‘Dismembering’ Financial Firms ‘Is A Fair Thing To Consider’ - former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill, in whose office “hangs a hunk of wood — at least 4 feet wide — etched with his portrait and the words ‘The Shatterer of Glass-Steagall.’”
Schwarzenegger: Let Me 'Live In Denial' ("I'm a Republican")
Clothes Make the Man | Cover Story | News and Opinion | Philadelphia Weekly Like Jack and his magic beanstalk, Urban Outfitters President Richard Hayne turned a few hippie beans into a hip $700 million retail empire.

R.O.I. on Cancer Spending: Better Than We Think? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Growing new body parts: Master mechanism for regeneration?
Straining forward: Nanowires made of ‘strained silicon’ — silicon whose atoms have been pried slightly apart — show how to keep increases in computer power coming.
Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments
The Hawthorne Effect Revisited « Organizations and Markets
Depression - a Buddhist view
anotherpanacea :: Should there be a place for disdain in our emotional lives?

Browse Inside Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom by Leonard S. Marcus, Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Top NASA Photos of All Time | Photo Gallery | AirSpaceMag.com
Madatoms - Intern Sex Scandals: A Retrospective By Rick Paulas - Artist: Edwin Servaas
Lennart Green does close-up card magic | Video on TED.com
Flickr Photo Download: Starbucks Dubai style
25 Vegetarian and Vegan Meals from 2009 The Kitchn's Best Recipes of 2009 | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn

streaking1 "It Beats Rocks and Tear Gas": Streaking and Cultural Politics in the Post-Vietnam Era
YouTube - moviesgrandmajoy's Channel
What a Difference a Day Makes - Barrowman Finds a Knight To Bear His Standard and Slay Neil Patrick Harris | AfterElton.com
The House Next Door: Focus on the Family: Pixar's Small-c Conservatism

Update - The 2009 Weblog Awards are off - The 2009 Weblog Awards
Google's Nexus Name Irks Estate of Author Philip K. Dick - WSJ.com (Nexus-1, an early android model +please)
OnStartups Answers

010510
Iceland Faces Crisis After Icesave Rejection - NYTimes.com
New scanners break child porn laws | Politics | The Guardian (two greatest fears go head-to-head: terrorism and kiddie porn)
Afghanistan Online: The Plight of the Afghan Woman
I Am For Sale, Who Will Buy Me? (women in Afganistan)
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

Dr. Trudy Bond: If Not Now, When? (APA "loses" its files on torture)
Obama to Add Air-Security Steps as Screening Expands - Bloomberg.com (none of which would have worked)
Jon Stewart Returns To Air, Skewers Underwear Bomber, Airline Security (Video)
Firedoglake » Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow on the GOP’s Failed Politics of Terror
All Together Now: Shut Up You Lefties!
Washington Post Intel Opinionator’s Epic Fail | Danger Room | Wired.com
Peter Daou: Ethics and Believability in Politics: On Sifry's Theory of an 'Obama Disconnect'
The Obama Disconnect: What Happens When Myth Meets Reality | techPresident
Letters Spur Anthrax Scares Across Alabama - CBS News (tea-party terrorism)
Greer Announces Resignation As Florida GOP Chair -- And Slams Right-Wing Critics On His Way Out | TPMDC
Labor moves quickly on job safety, workers' rights - Yahoo! News Hilda Solis warned corporate America there was "a new sheriff in town." Less than a year into her tenure, that figurative badge of authority is unmistakable.
California Gay-Marriage Legal Case Divides Activists - TIME
Lieberman's Approval Ratings Tank In Connecticut More than 80 percent (81 percent) of Democrats now say they disapprove of the job Lieberman is doing with only 14 percent approving.
How Nonprofits Won Special Treatment In Student Lending Bill
D'Oh: Embarrassed Canada Zaps Thousands Of Web Sites In Response To Yes Men Hoax | TPMMuckraker
Glenn Beck: 'African-American Is A Bogus, PC, Made-Up Term... Not A Race'

Editorial - This Year’s Housing Crisis - NYTimes.com It is increasingly clear that the Obama administration’s anti-foreclosure effort — which pressed lenders to reduce interest rates — isn’t doing nearly enough (sternly-worded letters by corporate Barry didn't work)
Silicon Valley ‘Bloodbath’ Leaves Entire Office Buildings Empty - Bloomberg.com the equivalent of 15 Empire State Buildings -- stood vacant at the end of the third quarter (CRE meltdown)
Housing Animal Spirits to Be Banished by Prime Foreclosures - Bloomberg.com
Bankruptcies Surge 32 Percent In 2009
FDL News Desk » Barney Frank’s Shocking Admission On Fannie And Freddie - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become a kind of public utility.” (there are virtually no checks on what Treasury can do with these two companies)
Fannie, Freddie, and the New Red and Blue - Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - True/Slant
Paul Volcker: The Lion Lets Loose - BusinessWeek
10-things-not-to-buy-in-2010: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
The 11 Best Performing Stocks of the 2000’s | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
Stephen Hawking: "The Human Species Has Entered a New Stage of Evolution" - The Daily Galaxy Top Story of 2009 - "an external transmission phase"
APOD: 2010 January 4 - Comet Halleys Nucleus: An Orbiting Iceberg
In pictures: Satellite eye on Earth - December 2009 | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Forget Viagra! Sound waves can send your sex life into orbit | Mail Online The pain-free therapy boosts performance by stimulating the growth of new blood vessels in the genital area.
Women 'may have lower sex drives due to guilt' - Telegraph - While most men feel physically and mentally aroused at the same time, women’s minds are less likely to reflect bodily arousal, researchers found.
BBC NEWS | Health | Female G spot 'can be detected' (2008: Italian scientists)
BBC News - The G-spot 'doesn't appear to exist', say researchers (2009: British scientists)
Where have all the g spots gone?
xkcd - By Randall Munroe - G-Spot
The "amazing" Boskops | john hawks weblog
Return of the "amazing" Boskops | john hawks weblog
What Happened to the Hominids Who May Have Been Smarter Than Us? | Human Origins | DISCOVER Magazine

FARK.com: Blog (Drew): Congratulations to the winners of Fark's 2009 Headline of the Year contest
Strange Horizons Fiction Department: Stories We've Seen Too Often
Fascinating letters | Letters of Note


The Risks Digest Volume 25: Issue 88 HP's facial-recognition can't recognize black people's faces

Nexus One review -- Engadget
Larry Osterman's WebLog : What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7?
The isolate utility [LWN.net]

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Three days in Iran - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Debt-hit Dubai opens world's tallest tower - CNN.com

BBC News - Embassies shut after 'Yemen lost track of arms trucks'
Airport Security Tightened For Travelers Flying To U.S.
Jim DeMint Still Standing Firm Against TSA Nominee Erroll Southers
Author of Torture, Spy Memos Was Just Doing His Job | Threat Level | Wired.com (Torture Yoo is a good Republican)
Blame game won't stop terrorism - CNN.com
BBC News - Airport body scanners 'unlikely' to foil al-Qaeda - MP - the scanners would probably not have detected the failed Detroit plane plot of Christmas Day (all useless security theatre)
‘Passenger Behavior’ Key to Catching Airline Terrorists - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Israel National News
The war on terror has been about scaring people, not protecting them | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian The ease with which the plane bomber could operate exposes the vacuity and recklessness at the heart of the US response to 9/11: So there was no ticking time bomb. No urgent need ever arose to torture anybody who was withholding crucial details, so that civilisation as we know it could be saved in the nick of time. No wires had to be tapped, special prisons erected or international accords violated. No innocent people had to be grabbed off the street in their home country, transported across the globe and waterboarded. Drones, daisy-cutters, invasions, occupations were, it has transpired, not necessary (Bush/Cheney warcrimes)
Peek | AlterNet: Fox News Guest: "If You Are an 18 to 28-Year-Old Muslim Man Then You Should Be Strip Searched"

Exclusive: Dems 'Almost Certain' To Bypass Conference | The New Republic (but Americans love their obstructionist Republicans) w
Parker Griffith Staff Resigns: Nearly Every Member Quits
At least we can all agree rape is bad? « jad.blog (Republicans for rape!)
Ping Pong: The House Prepares To Take Up The Senate Health Care Bill | TPMDC
Secret Service Discovers Another State Dinner Party-Crasher | TPM LiveWire
Daily Kos: Buy More, Get Less, Die Sooner?
Hmm, Why Has Bachmann Stopped Bashing The Census? | TPMDC
Revisionaries - Mariah Blake How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids’ textbooks (to make your kids as stupid as they are)
YouTube - Evolution Has No Clothes - An introduction to Scott Thurman's documentary about the Texas State Board of Education science curriculum deliberations.
National Academic Standards: The First Test - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
SEIU - Service Employees International Union - Hell Freezes Over: Rush Limbaugh Loves Union Hospitals and Socialized Medicine

Believe It Or Not, They Have Found Another Way To Blame Poor People - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine (OMG is wasn't a sub-prime crises fueled by bad loans to poor people after all +recast crises)
U.S. growth prospects deemed bleak in new decade - Yahoo! News - a crippled real estate sector and hobbled banks will keep a lid on U.S. economic growth over the coming decade (and who crippled and hobbled them?)
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished as Banks Seek Profits From Bailout - Bloomberg.com the banks that received the biggest taxpayer bailouts are seeking to reap trading profits from securities rescued by the government (no one could have predicted this would happen if Obama put Republicans in charge of the money)
PPIP: Banks 'Making A Killing' On Government Toxic Asset Program
Krugman - That 1937 Feeling - NYTimes.com - Will the Fed realize, before it’s too late, that the job of fighting the slump isn’t finished? Will Congress do the same? If they don’t, 2010 will be a year that began in false economic hope and ended in grief
Bernanke Blames Weak Regulation for Financial Crisis - NYTimes.com (there's regulation, and then there's the regulators)
Roubini Global Economics - RGE Monitor -- Nouriel Roubini's EconoMonitor
AMERICAblog News: Whole Foods CEO is big climate change denier, says we shouldn't expect more from Whole Foods than we expect from Safeway (but we should pay more)
John Mackey and Whole Foods : The New Yorker Does Whole Foods’ C.E.O. know what’s best for you?
Hullabaloo Hippie Randism and Libertarian Lefties - In the early eighties, Mackey told a reporter, “The union is like having herpes. It doesn’t kill you, but it’s unpleasant and inconvenient, and it stops a lot of people from becoming your lover.”
Why New York City Needs a New Economic Strategy - Newsweek.com 'If New York City is a business, it isn't Wal-Mart,' Mayor Bloomberg once sneered. Maybe it should be.

Leukaemia vaccine being developed - Telegraph
BBC News - Mars' ancient lake beds spied by Nasa probe
Union of Concerned Scientists: Tell Congress: Keep Antibiotics Working! (see Norway)
Age of Solar System Needs to Be Recalculated | Wired Science | Wired.com
Why Ant will live longer than Dec... A first name beginning with D 'could wipe 10 years off your life' | Mail Online

Thomas Fleming: Prohibition: A Cautionary Tale - WSJ.com America's experiment with banning alcohol created problems that persist to this day.
Difficult languages: Tongue twisters | The Economist
Dubin at Work in Old New York : The Kisseloff Collection
architectural conjecture :: urban speculation :: landscape futures: One Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik (Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump)
Court to Cops: Stop Tasing People into Compliance | Danger Room | Wired.com (authoritarian goons want to shoot people with less paperwork)
A New Kind of New Year’s Resolution: Saying No :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
Courthouse News Service - A judge in Dickson County, Tenn., had officers pull a spectator out of his courtroom "on a hunch," held him in custody and made him submit to a urinalysis for drugs

BBC News - BeautifulPeople.com axes holiday weight gain members
Italian-Americans hit back at Jersey Shore's use of the word 'guido' | Media | The Observer
MTV's 'Jersey Shore' 'Guido' Controversy - TIME
News | The Independent UK - Italian Americans outraged at reality TV 'slur'
www.peopleofwalmart.com
YouTube - Snookie on The Wendy Williams Show
Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Update: Snooki
Dell pulls ads from Jersey Shore, calls show 'derogatony' (video) -- Engadget
YouTube - Snooki explains "guidos" and "guidettes"
The REAL Situation (Feat. MTV Jersey Shore's The Situation, Snooki, and Pauly D) from MoranisLover - Video
YouTube - Jersey Shore - Meet the Cast
YouTube - Father Guido Sarducci on art school
Bobby Bottleservice - Jersey Shore Audition Tape from Nick Kroll - Video
Hot Chicks with Douchebags
JWOWW.com
YouTube - Jersey Shore - The Situation (Room)
fourfour: The lessons of Jersey Shore
fourfour: The lessons of Jersey Shore: Episode 2
fourfour: The lessons of Jersey Shore: Episode 3
YouTube - Carmen "Habanera" - Muppet Style

Facebook blocks 'Web 2.0 Suicide Machine' | NetworkWorld.com Community 'Anti-social media' site says its attempts at virtual euthanasia are being thwarted
Culture & Society Articles | GIS Mapping Shows What Discrimination Looks Like | Miller-McCune Online Magazine
Skiff Reader is largest yet, will be hitting a Sprint Store near you -- Engadget (newsprint killer)
An Affordable $199 Tablet for Everyone -- And It's Not From Apple - PC World
A look at Apple's love for DRM and consumer lock-ins (Jobsed)

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Official Army history finds Bush admin. ‘hamstrung’ troops in Afghanistan | Raw Story
Killings Rock Afghan Strategy - WSJ.com Bomber of CIA Base Was Being Recruited as Informant; Retaliation for U.S. Push
Order on Interpol Work Inside U.S. Irks Conservatives - NYTimes.com - ommentator Andrew C. McCarthy declared that an “international police force” could now operate inside the United States “unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law.” - ommentator Andrew C. McCarthy declared that an “international police force” could now operate inside the United States “unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law.” (apparently missed Bush/Cheney)
Just What Did President Obama's Executive Order regarding INTERPOL Do? - Political Punch -- mad dog Republicans afraid of the International Pacific Halibut Commission and Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.
U.S. And Britain Close Embassies In Yemen Over Al-Qaida Threats
Darfuristan : Rolling Stone - How the world's campaign to stop a genocide created a quagmire
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Brennan: Some Guantanamo detainees will go to Yemen « - Blogs from CNN.com
Britain, US To Fund Yemen Anti-Terror Police Unit
BBC News - Iceland petition against pay-out over Icesave collapse The compensation amounts to some 12,000 euros for each citizen on the island nation of 320,000.
Atheist Ireland Publishes 25 Blasphemous Quotes | blasphemy.ie (including the the popester, uh-oh)
McCaskill: DeMint 'Nuts' To Block TSA Nominee Over Benefits (Video) (DeMented)

Soft on terror? Not this president - washingtonpost.com
Emptywheel » Why Did Obama Kill The Dawn Johnsen Nomination? (transparency is dead +Rahm with a knife)
DownWithTyranny!: Republicans Don't Jeopardize National Security For Partisan Ends, Do They? If Jim DeMint Has Been Doing That It Would Be Treason, No?
The Seminal » The Other Side of Airline Safety Kabuki (no attention to plain safety; crashes ok)
U.S. tightens international air security - Mike Allen - Politico.com (no underwear allowed on flights)
FDL News Desk » Calls Begin For Washington Post To End Content-Sharing Agreement With Pete Peterson-Funded “Fiscal Times” - It’s essentially a buyout of a national news section (by extreme rightwinger billionaire)
Hullabaloo: digby: Easy Redemption - The more ideologically marginalized these conservatives get the more their prejudices just come bursting through the surface of their "mainstream" personas (Britt Hume tells Tiger to convert to Christianity, where he can make a "total recovery" just like those C-Street guys)

Harvard Teaching Hospitals Cap Outside Pay to Top Officials - NYTimes.com Partners HealthCare is also forbidding speaker’s fees from drug companies for any employee, including nearly 8,000 with Harvard faculty appointments - no more than $5,000 a day (but ... trial lawyers!!)

Bernanke Blames Weak Regulation for Financial Crisis - NYTimes.com (Fed did nothing wrong, at all)
FRB: Speech--Bernanke, Monetary Policy and the Housing Bubble--January 3, 2010
Real Estate in Cape Coral, Fla., Is Far From a Recovery - NYTimes.com - More than a quarter of single-family homes in the city have been touched by foreclosure in the bust
Bernanke Calls For Regulation To Fight Against Bubbles - Critics blame the Fed for feeding that speculative boom in housing by holding interest rates too low for too long after the 2001 recession
Banks Roll Out New Check, Card Fees - Yahoo! Finance - e decision to charge the fee is partly tied to the costs that it will incur from the new rules.
The States and the Stimulus - WSJ.com How a supposed boon has become a fiscal burden (Murdoch says they should have refused the money +unions!)
Private Equity's Big Returns, Big Controversy - DailyFinance
AIG Chief Counsel Resigns, Will Collect $2.8 Million in Severance. Poor Baby. | Crooks and Liars
Montana's big sky views become bigger tax burdens - latimes.com One region in the northwest fears it's the next Vail, Colo., as celebrities and new money move in, forcing property values up and longtime residents out (rural gentrification)
Move Your Money

Psychology: Alone in the crowd | The Economist Loneliness is a contagious disease
Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' - Times Online
The Darwin Awards

Pride Aircraft: Sukhoi SU-27 Flankers for Sale
The Top 10 Conservative Movies of the Last Decade – Telegraph Blogs
Dr. Nile Gardiner - Director of The Heritage Foundation's Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom (of course)
YouTube - Fight! THE RETURN OF THE KING (Obama Subtitles) :: Sauron Didn't Have A Birth Certificate, Either!
Losing the War - by Lee Sandlin
Bono calls for control over Internet downloads - Yahoo! News - The singer pointed out that the US effort to stop child pornography and China?s effort to suppress online dissent indicate that it is "perfectly possible to track" Internet content (there you go)
LiveLeak.com - Oh.. u wanna bash me down?? ok.. i m "here".... wearing "this"....
Ptak Science Books: Mapping the Invasion of America, 1942 (large, threatening arrows +5th columns of liberal college professors)
Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
Ptak Science Books: Pale Horses and the Lake of Fire: a Map to the End of the World
Ptak Science Books: Blank and Missing Things: a Map of Missing People of Central Europe and Russia, 1881 (percentage of Jews in middle Europe in 1881)
Book: Warren Beatty Slept with Nearly 13,000 Women - Warren Beatty : People.com

You are not a gadget
Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine Why Jaron Lanier rants against what the Web has become.
Facebook Data Team: How Diverse is Facebook? | Facebook
Who's on Facebook? - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
apophenia: Race and Social Network Sites: Putting Facebook's Data in Context
fred design » Simple rules for good typography
Create a Master Control Panel shortcut and explore the all tasks
HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Twitter (everyone is a "brand")
Google Nexus One Available on AT&T 3G? [Rumormill]

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Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010 | Project Censored

Shooting Handcuffed Children | AfterDowningStreet.org The occupied government of Afghanistan and the United Nations have both concluded that U.S.-led troops recently dragged eight sleeping children out of their beds, handcuffed some of them, and shot them all dead.
The Seminal » Afghan Children Handcuffed, Then Killed By American Soldiers
Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan Devastates Critical Hub for CIA Activities - WSJ.com
Deep South calls in Iran to cure its health blues - Times Online In ground-breaking project, one of America’s poorest communities is turning to the Middle East to try to resolve its crisis
This Little Piggie Went to Market… « The Poor Man Institute Ah, the bucolic marketplaces of the New Iraq (Now with 20% fewer Iraqis!) (Sweet, sweet victory. All hail The Surge)
Think Progress » Official Army History: Bush Administration Neglected Afghan War, Diverted Resources to Iraq
FDL News Desk » Afghanistan’s Pentagon Papers
In the next decade, I hope to become more radical | Costas Douzinas | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The left is the main hope against xenophobic, securitised, apocalyptic barbarism. We should expect radical change

Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: "Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans." | World News |Axisoflogic.com
Poll: Majority Favor Waterboarding Flight 253 Suspect | TPMDC (torture the fuck out of him)
Attackerman » It’s Not Obama’s 8/6/01 PDB, But It’s Not Nothing
The Homeland Secretary’s Job Security - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com (crazed Republicans +"Democratic strategist" Dan Gerstein)
2010 Election Situation Grows More Difficult For Democrats (we'll incrementalize after the Republicans get their majority back)
Emptywheel » Obama’s Royal Scam and The Iron Fist Of Rahm - Shutting down Democratic and progressive structures that do not toe his line is exactly what Obama and his right hand man, Rahm Emanuel, have done since the election
The Obama Disconnect: What Happens When Myth Meets Reality | techPresident (corporate Barry and the marketing scam)
Hullabaloo: digby: Them Whut Brung Him
Frank Rich - Tiger Woods, Person of the Year - NYTimes.com - suspicion that Obama’s brilliant presidential campaign was as hollow as Tiger’s public image — a marketing scam
Hullabaloo: digby: Technicalities - If it was unconscionable to release pictures of abuse because it would outrage the Muslim world, what would this do? (Blackwater mass murder)
Crooks and Liars » Shoes vs. Underwear: The GOP's New Terror Double Standard
Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans (2007: remember this? of course TSA would never do something like this)
America the Traumatized: How 13 Events of the Decade Made Us the PTSD Nation | Politics | AlterNet (America: land of the scared babies)
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - The degrading effects of Terrorism fears
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - They hate us for our freedoms
Just Murder Them All, Innocent And Guilty - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (Repubican neo-fascism)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Even James Joyner - Napolitano’s only mistake is giving the GOP an easily repeated lie/talking point, not for saying anything wrong ... the GOP’s bullshit factory ... these are the folks who have managed to turn ACORN into SPECTRE and end of life counseling into death panels.
Kung Fu Monkey: RERUNS: "Wait, Arent You Scared?"
Light, With Intermittent Heat, Likely - Andrew Cohen (why TV news sucks)

Beat the Press Archive | The American Prospect Can the Post Find Someone Who Didn't Miss the $8 Trillion Housing Bubble to Discuss Fed Policy? (no)
Matthew Yglesias » Why the Budget Will Never Be Balanced (because the solution to everything for Repubicans is tax cuts)

The Tyranny Of Government And Our Duty Of Confidentiality As Bloggers
Blogger To Fight TSA Subpoena | TPMMuckraker (Obama's TSA goons killing your liberties)
Hullabaloo Chain Of Fools by digby (they really are this stupid)

Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers - washingtonpost.com (no jobs added in 10 years; Repubicans at work)
Secrets of the Economist's Trade: First, Purchase a Piggy Bank - WSJ.com
Calculated Risk: HAMP Seen Hurting Housing ("The Obama administration’s $75 billion program to protect homeowners from foreclosure has been widely pronounced a disappointment, and some economists and real estate experts now contend it has done more harm than good.")
Mortgage Modifications Are Seen as Adding to Housing Woes - NYTimes.com (bankers: WIN; you: FAIL)

Solution to killer superbug found in Norway - Yahoo! News - The reason: Norwegians stopped taking so many drugs.
Futurity.org – A generation hooked on caffeine
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com
No rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide fraction in past 160 years, new research finds
Farms-to-forest plan worries Vilsack - Washington Times (inconvienent facts will be revised)

Andrew Jackson : Good, Evil & The Presidency . Themes . The Corporations | PBS (sure got that one)
DETNEWS | WebVideo | Detroit 2009, The Movie
Captured Photo Collection » Childhood Poverty in Colorado Photos (good job, Republicans)
YouTube - Bart Police shooting in Oakland KTVU report (murderer still free)
Slow Pace of Inquiry Into 8 Deaths Leaves Town Distressed - NYTimes.com (urban hellholes)
Sheriff concerned about appellate court ruling on Tasers - Bakersfield.com - "Passive resistance is out the door now with this decision," Gennaco said (poor babies can't shock people doing nothing)
Chicago cop tasered unconscious diabetic 11 times | Raw Story (just for fun)

Hullabaloo You put THAT one on your list…seriously? Top 10 films of 2009 (to counter that idiotic conservative list)
YouTube - How Japanense parents screw up their kids for life
Essay - The Naked and the Conflicted - Sex and the American Male Novelist - NYTimes.com (no-longer trendy anti-feminist Roiphe_
Like Men Betrayed : The New Yorker Revisiting Richard Yates’s “Revolutionary Road.”
Philip Roth: A Real American Asshole « Rage Against the Man-chine
Book Review - 'Wetlands,' by Charlotte Roche - Review - NYTimes.com
Top Ten VHS Finds of 2009 | Found Footage Festival
David Levine Gallery - The New York Review of Books
Levine in Winter | vanityfair.com
Writing Gay Characters

Apple misses its mark on Windows 7 Boot Camp support | Apple - CNET News

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Welcoming 2010 - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Western troops accused of executing 10 Afghan civilians, including children - Times Online (hearts and minds)
Police: Suicide bombing kills 75 in NW Pakistan
Don't Mess with Yemen | World | AlterNet (no country left un-invaded)
Standoff in Iran Deepens with New Show of Force - NYTimes.com
Is Iran A Dying State in Denial? - ABC News Protester Calls Crackdown 'Last Efforts of a Dying State in Denial'
Gaza sees more newborns of malformation - English_Xinhua (long-term war crimes)
Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: 'I was visited by the FBI' | Detroit News - - MLive.com
CBC News - Politics - PM shuts down Parliament until March
Taliban infiltrator who killed 7 from CIA wore Afghan uniform | McClatchy
The 'coalition of the willing' in Iraq becomes an army of one | McClatchy
Iraqis Angered as Blackwater Charges Are Dropped - NYTimes.com
Iraq to sue ex-Blackwater guards - CNN.com
Hundreds Demonstrate on Border With Gaza - NYTimes.com
U.S. Transferred Detainee Before Hostage Release - NYTimes.com
Focus on Internet Imams as Al Qaeda Recruiters - NYTimes.com
La Figa » Jesus Sucks Some Nuts: Restrictive Irish Blasphemy Law Goes into Effect Today (yeah, that Ireland, with the largest international pedophile right which isn't blasphemous in itself)
Irish atheists challenge new blasphemy laws | World news | guardian.co.uk

Montana Ruling Bolsters Doctor-Assisted Suicide - NYTimes.com
San Diego CityBeat - Obama entrapped me (promised to obey state laws, but no so much)
The Best and the Rightest « The Washington Independent The Top Ten Conservatives of 2009 (sad but true)
Fox spent weeks promoting apparent tea party scam | Media Matters for America (separating fools from their cash)
Another Breitbart dud | Media Matters for America

The Great Recession: A Hidden Depression? - DailyFinance
Robert Reich: 2009: The Year Wall Street Bounced Back and Main Street Got Shafted
20 million-plus collect unemployment checks in '09 - Yahoo! News

Millennium Mistake
Adult Learning - Neuroscience - How to Train the Aging Brain - NYTimes.com
Partners sculpt each other to achieve their ideal selves: If successful, relationship goes well A new international review of seven papers on "the Michelangelo phenomenon" shows that when close partners affirm and support each other's ideal selves, they and the relationship benefit greatly.
Traditional Gender Roles Cemented In Popular Therapy For Couples ("therapy" = "advice")
Earlier bedtimes may help protect adolescents against depression and suicidal thoughts
How Do GPS Satellites Know Their Locations? Quasars!
Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned - NYTimes.com
Museum national d’histoire naturelle
BBC News - Tasmanian devil facial cancer origins 'identified'
Swine flu may be less contagious than feared - The Boston Globe
Moon hole might be suitable for colony - CNN.com
Scripps Florida scientists show 'lifeless' prions capable of evolutionary change and adaptation - "it's clear that you do not need nucleic acid for the process of evolution."

Rachel Wetzsteon, Poet of Keen Insights and Wit, Dies at 42 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
The Hadza — Portrait Gallery — National Geographic Magazine
Global Sea Services: Cooking: Best Practices
Cheery-voiced GPS units lead drivers into danger | Oregon Local News - OregonLive.com (load up James Earl Jones)

Is aviation security mostly for show? - CNN.com
YouTube - Bruce Schneier at The Rachel Maddow Show - Can gaps in security be filled? (2009-12-28)
Expert Bruce Schneier argues for security measures that actually work instead of theatrics. | November 2009 | New Internationalist
Matt Blaze: Fighting Terror with Uncertainty
Michael Chertoff - Former homeland security chief argues for whole-body imaging - washingtonpost.com
The 'Israelification' of airports: High security, little bother - thestar.com
What Israel can teach us about security

Fired Washington Times Sports Staffers Tweet Revenge - City Desk - Washington City Paper
XKCD - Random Number - Stack Overflow
How To Read a Book a Week in 2010 « in over your head

Public domain day 2010: Drawing up the lines « Everybody's Libraries
To the 12-year-old douchebags of reddit: if you do not agree with or like a contributor's comment, do not go through the last five pages of their comment history and downote everything. : reddit.com
Intel’s Upcoming 32nm Clarkdale Shows Impressive OC Potential - Expreview.com
Top 35 Most Useful Twitter Blog Posts of 2009
Twitter's Most Influential Topics of 2009
Search and sort available domain names - Score Tool
Location, Location, Location: 5 Big Predictions for 2010
Hidden phpMyAdmin Features « ht4