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070309

6 people executed in Qom, 29 people due to be executed in Tehran | Middle East | World News
ABC News Reporter Tweets That Iranian Detainees Are Being Waterboarded
Iranian ambassadors across Europe summoned in co-ordinated protest | World news | guardian.co.uk
Israel Again Rejects Total Settlement Freeze -- News from Antiwar.com Deputy FM Insists Palestinian Not Willing to Make Any Concessions (nothing left to concede, thanks to facist Israeli policies)
Raw Story » US-backed Colombian soldiers execute innocent for cash
The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S. | Mail Online

U.S. Says It Will Preserve Secret Jails for Terror Case - NYTimes.com (same as the old Cheney)
Grand Jury Inquiry on Destruction of C.I.A. Tapes - NYTimes.com
Documents describe chaos of Gitmo's early months | TPM News Pages Newly released documents describe chaos, torture allegations in Gitmo facility's early months - "further evidence of the widespread and systemic abuse of prisoners conducted at Guantanamo Bay and other overseas locations"
DHS Cybersecurity Plan Will Involve NSA, Telecoms - washingtonpost.com
Sessions Claims Sotomayor Tied To "Extreme" Group Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala-Racist-Dimwit
Emptywheel » Howie Kurtz’s Latest Story: Weymouth Defends Pay2Play Scheme (completely corrupt newspaper)
WaPo Salon Scandal: Editors, Lawmakers Deny Knowledge
Washington Post scraps plans for 'salons' after uproar - Los Angeles Times
Pay-for-Chat Plan Falls Flat at Washington Post - NYTimes.com - The Washington Post has been a scrupulous watchdog over the capital’s cozy world of power networking (yeah, sure)
Bloggasm » Why won’t NPR’s ombud speak to Salon’s Glenn Greenwald? (don't give them any money)
Tea Party Movement Loses Steam | The Washington Independent (flop)
49 Minutes With Levi Johnston -- New York Magazine
Full Text Of Palin's Resignation Speech | LiveWire
Matthew Yglesias » Al Franken, Policy Wonk
The Washington Monthly: A Roundtable You'Ll Want To Miss (Republican bobbleheads dominate your teevee)
Hullabaloo: Safety Net (Aaaahnold terminates California: who gets the read bucks)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Speaking of Krugman
Secrets of the WSJ - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com

Krugman - That ’30s Show - NYTimes.com
BBC - Peston's Picks: Why bankers aren't worth it (best of the best of the worst)
Geithner Neuters FDIC's Sheila Bair in New Regulatory Overhaul. She Thinks Her Job is To Protect People, Not Banks. | Crooks and Liars
The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression
The Man Who Shook Up Vegas - WSJ.com
The Death of Macho - By Reihan Salam | Foreign Policy
Bailout Costs vs Big Historical Events | The Big Picture (why we're fucked)
Debt, Class Warfare and Entrepreneurship
Universities and Economic Growth
New Evidence on the Foreclosure Crisis - WSJ.com Zero money down, not subprime loans, led to the mortgage meltdown.
FORA.tv - Paul Romer: A Theory of History, with an Application

Discoveryon: Origin of very high-energy gamma rays pinpointed
Police crackdowns may encourage drug use - science-in-society - 03 July 2009 - New Scientist
Hoopla, and Disappointment, in Schizophrenia Research - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com
Unlocked: the secrets of schizophrenia - Science, News - The Independent Scientific breakthrough offers hope of new treatments for mental condition
io9 - A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory - Memory-enhancing drugs
Phenomenica: Cosmic fireworks display seen inside Helix Nebula
The FDA and Painkillers: What's Safe Now? - TIME

Alain de Botton: You'll regret those words until your dying day - Telegraph
Judge Throws Out Conviction in Cyberbullying Case - NYTimes.com - were he to allow Ms. Drew’s conviction to stand, “one could literally prosecute anyone who violates a terms of service agreement” in any way.
Best Freeware Reviews and Downloads | Freewaregenius.com
This Is Why You're Fat and other great single-topic blogs. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine

070209

U.S. Marines Launch Major Operation In Afghanistan (surge!)
India Decriminalizes Gay Sex
5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results: Scientific American Street drug–related deaths from overdoses drop and the rate of HIV cases crashes (but it's anti-Republican to do that)

News Analysis - To Critics, Obama’s Terror Policy Looks a Lot Like Bush’s - NYTimes.com (same as the old Bush)
The still-growing NPR "torture" controversy - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (time to waterboard NicePoliteRepublican Liars, or at least don't give them any money + Alica Shepard, 12-year old Ombud: "why is it so important to call something torture?")
Letters: The still-growing NPR "torture" controversy - Salon I almost wish I believed in Hell, in hopes that there'd be a special circle reserved for such people as Alicia Shepard (really, don't give them any money)
“Just Following Orders”—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) foreign prosecutors will open criminal cases against Americans involved in some of the Bush Administration’s criminal enterprises, such as the operation of the torture black sites.
Op-Ed Columnist - When Our Brains Short-Circuit - NYTimes.com - Americans spend nearly $700 billion a year on the military and less than $3 billion on the F.D.A., even though food-poisoning kills more Americans than foreign armies and terrorists (just label food terrorists and fix that problem)
Saddam Hussein Talks to the FBI
YouTube - Reporters Grill Gibbs Over Prepackaged Questions for Obama
More Obama Secrecy -- This Time On Cheney's Plame Interview | TPMMuckraker (same as the old Bush)
39 trips for Sanford with no security in '09 - Sanford - The State (lotta time on the A-Trail)
Washington Post sells access, $25,000 - $250,000 - Mike Allen - Politico.com (selling access to Obama officals, yes you heard that right)
The Washington Monthly: Wash. Post Selling Access? (they've always seen themselves that way) )
WaPo Does Damage Control After Cash-For-Access Scheme Leaks | TPMDC
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Open Thread It looks like Dan Froomkin got out just in time.
The Washington Monthly: The Original King Of Irony Strikes Again (or maybe Rove is just a psychopathic liar)
Colbert Tells Viewers To Deny Rep. Cynthia Davis Food (Republican thinking: deny food to children because "Hunger can be a positive motivator.")
Hullabaloo How It Happens by digby (the long-range Republican plan to destoy health care in America)
Jason Rosenbaum: All 13 Democrats are voting for new HELP health care bill
Busby Campaign, Supporters And Allies Publicly Mobilize Against Sheriff's Raid | TPMDC | San Diego Deputy Marshall G. Abbott, psycho-cop)
Fundraiser fracas set for DA's scrutiny
Howard Kurtz's wasted opportunity | Media Matters for America
Howard Kurtz - Reporters, Race and the Coverage of Michelle Obama - washingtonpost.com (black women reporters biased on coverage of black women; white men covering white men is just fine)
The White House - Blog Post - Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff (Salaries)
Think Progress » Déjà Vu: Fox News Rallies Viewers To Participate In Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests On July 4
Beck  guest Scheuer: "The only chance we have as a country right now is" for bin Laden to "detonate a major weapon" in U.S. | Media Matters for America
This Modern World » Blog Archive » I eagerly await the profuse apologies… Tom Tomorrow (for suggesting rightwingers want an attack on America)
Wonkette : Fox News Will Destroy America (With Bin Laden’s Nukes?) To Save It The Evildoers within the United States are always plotting against us.
Raw Story » Stewart blasts former CIA analyst for rooting for bin Laden attack
Fox News set for best year yet (see above)
Glossy in search of new sheen - The Boston Globe - Boston magazine hoping change at top will bring lift (“He’s to the right of Attila the Hun." Republican media owners at work)

California Starting to Pay With I.O.U.’s - NYTimes.com
Calitics:: It's Now A $26 Billion Dollar Problem (Aaaahnold terminates California, who could have predicted?)

Economy Sheds 467,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate at 9.5% - CNBC.com (but the recovery is strong!)
Table A-12. Alternative measures of labor underutilization (U6 at nearly 17%)
U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Fell 16,000 to 614,000 Last Week - Bloomberg.com (progress!)
SEC Investigator Raised Madoff Concerns Years Ago, Was Asked to Look Elsewhere - washingtonpost.com Lawyer Raised Alarm, Then Was Pointed Elsewhere (Republican SEC)
Executive Compensation Transparency: SEC Unanimously Votes For New Rules
Calculated Risk: Naught for the Naughts?

U.S. Nuns Facing Vatican Scrutiny - NYTimes.com the Vatican and even some American bishops are trying to shift them back into living in convents, wearing habits (the Popester send Nuns back to the 15th Century)
LRB · Clancy Martin: Diary (of a drunken professor)
Hey, authors, don't tweet in anger! | Salon Books (Alice Hoffman's weekend meltdown on Twitter, read to the end for punchline)
Gawker - Look Who's Snarking Now: Novelist Uses Twitter to Trash Critic - Roberta silman

io9 - New Map Of Our Galactic Disc Reveals Where Future Stars Will Be Born - space porn
Many adults cannot name a scientist
5 Myths About Women's Bodies - 3 - MSN Health & Fitness - Birth Control Slide Show Myth: Antibiotics make birth control pills unreliable.

'Swatting' case shows need to ban caller-ID spoofing | NetworkWorld.com Community
8 Awesome Cases of Internet Vigilantism | Cracked.com

070109

Daily Kos: Time to Put a Freeze on Foreign Aid/Arms Deals: Israel $2.4 billion Virtually all of this money is used to buy weapons (up to 75% made in the U.S.). Beginning in 2009, the U.S. plans to give $30 billion over 10 years

Why Norm Coleman lost - Manu Raju and Josh Kraushaar - politico.com (because Republicans couldn't override the law)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Keeping it Real: You really wanna know why he lost? He had fewer fucking votes
Raw Story » Helen Thomas hits White House for lack of transparency
John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld and the Systematic Torture of Prisoners | Antemedius
Franken's Critics Agonize Over Senate Victory (poor babies)
Think Progress » Inhofe: No disrespect, but Franken’s a ‘clown.’ (Senators being nice to each other)
My Left Nutmeg:: Lieberman's 15-Year Record of Killing Health Care Reform
The Washington Monthly: WAL-MART Throws A Curveball
Lieberman: I Stand With The Small Minority Of Americans Who Oppose Public Option | TPMDC
Bernie Sanders Demands Democrats Commit To Stopping Health Care Filibuster
Beck  guest Scheuer: "The only chance we have as a country right now is" for bin Laden to "detonate a major weapon" in U.S. | Media Matters for America (blood-thirsty Republican traitors hope for mass murder)
Sarah Palin story sparks Republican family feud - Jonathan Martin - Politico.com
Oklahoma Republicans Ready To Blame The Recession On 'Debauchery'
Pressure Mounts On Sanford To Resign | TPMDC
Should You Read That Long Sarah Palin Thing In Vanity Fair? | The Awl
Jezebel - Vanity Fair 's Palin Profile Reads A Lot Like Its Clinton One - Todd purdum palin clinton
He Shall Be Levi: GQ Features : Levi Johnston
Mayan Palingenesis

Krugman: U.S. Headed for 'Jobless' Recovery - ABC News
Harold Meyerson - California: A Dream Decimated - washingtonpost.com
California Misses Deadline, May Now Have To Issue IOUs

BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world
Nut-Size Ancient Skull Explains Our Brains' Bigness?
FDA Advisers Urge Smaller Doses of Acetaminophen - US News and World Report
Blood stem cell growth factor reverses memory decline in mice | Science Blog
NCBI ROFL: Does this outfit make me look like I want to get laid? females are aware of the social signal function of their clothing and that they in some cases alter their clothing style to match their courtship motivation (scientists at work with your taxpayer dollars)
Climate Skeptic: "I Was Hoping People At EPA Would Pay Attention" To My Work | TPMMuckraker

VirtualBox - VirtualBox
Lifehacker - How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network's WEP Password with BackTrack - wep
Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO) :: Add-ons for Firefox

Former Texas pastor sentenced in child porn case - Boston.com
But when the Rapture comes what's to become of your loving pets who are left behind? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets takes that burden off your mind.

063009

  $2.775 billion in US aid supports Israeli nuclear weapons program     : Information Clearing House - ICH

Coleman concedes Senate race; Pawlenty to sign certificate | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQ
Todd on Ricci: "[T]he majority actually, well, to put it bluntly, legislated from the bench" | Media Matters for America (but, but, but ...)
The suppressed fact: Deaths by U.S. torture - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Creepy, revealing quote from White House staffer - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (the new audacity, same as the old audacity)
George W. Bush appointees buck Barack Obama on terror policies - Josh Gerstein - Politico.com (even though they're the same terror policies as Bush)
Ideological Diversity Among Democrats Means No Free Pass for Obama - washingtonpost.com (Blue-Dogs!)
Todd S. Purdum on Sarah Palin | vanityfair.com . Palin’s life has sometimes played out like an unholy amalgam of Desperate Housewives and Northern Exposure.
Open Left:: The Problem With The Public Option Is That It Lowers The Cost Of Health Insurance Olympia Snowe thinks that the problem with a public health insurance option is that a public option would... wait for it... lower the cost of health insurance:
"The Commission Has Been Road-Blocked": Republicans' War On The FEC | TPMMuckraker
Candidate to confront deputies over raid: San Deigo Sherrif's Deputy Marshall Abbott (is a brownshirt thug)
Homeowner Blasts Sheriff's Department For Raid On Dem Candidate Fundraising Event | TPMDC (Republican cops at work)
As White House Readies Abortion Plan, Packaging Emerges as Major Issue - God & Country (your accomodationist "liberals" told to fuck themselves by anti-abortian crowd)
Matthew Yglesias » Bishops, Baptists Organizing Against Contraception (like negotiating with terrorists)
Oklahoma Republicans Ready To Blame The Recession On 'Debauchery' a "petri dish for wingnuttery."
Rumproast -- Connect-the-Nazis (finest wingnuttiness from "The Rhetorican")
Newport mulls answers to downtown parking shortage - San Jose Mercury News ("Does four lanes of automobile congestion, is that in keeping with the colonial period?")

Debate over government-funded police protection heats up | Salon Conservatives decry "socialized" law enforcement; Democrats are divided over "single-payer" police protection
Philip Greenspun’s Weblog » Opportunity in the demise of Boston Globe

States brace for shutdowns - Los Angeles Times Time is running out for the legislatures in Arizona, California, Indiana, Mississippi and Pennsylvania to solve budget gaps.
Home Prices Post 18.1 Percent Annual Drop in April - NYTimes.com
How to Fix Financial Television | The Big Picture
Zero Hedge: Goldman Sachs: "Engineering Every Major Market Manipulation Since The Great Depression"

Climate change: Rising sea level to submerge Louisiana coastline by 2100, study warns | Environment | guardian.co.uk (Republicans say ocean is a liberal hoax)
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Most complete Earth map published
Betelgeuse Shrinks / Science News (go boom?)
Exploding Stars: Is Earth at Risk? | LiveScience
Rape Fantasies and Hygiene By State « OkTrends

Barney Frank Files Bill To Decriminalize Pot - wbztv.com
Daily Kos: Updated - Oregon Resoundingly Passes Hemp Bill
Marijuana and cocaine should be legalised, says Latin American drugs commission | World news | The Guardian

Firefox 3.5 arrives - but without Google Gears | PC Pro blog
The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal | TorrentFreak
6 New Personality Disorders Caused by the Internet | Cracked.com
Weekly Scientist “If a person doesn’t want to be found, are they really missing?"

062909

Israel May Shift on Settlements Freeze Amid Broader Effort - NYTimes.com (only temporary)
Israel to build 50 West Bank homes for outpost evacuees - Haaretz - Israel News (there you go + fuck you, Obama)
Privately run checkpoint stops Palestinians with 'too much food' - Haaretz - Israel News (consistent behavior)
The Associated Press: Fireworks over Baghdad as Iraqis take over cities (giant GTFO parties)

Ricci Decision: 5-4 Ruling In Favor Of Firefighters (white power)
The Supreme Court's Ricci decision - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
How Obama Has Benefited From Sex Scandals - Jonathan Alter | Newsweek.com
Dianne Feinstein: Criticism From Left On Health Care “Doesn’t Move Me One Whit” | The Plum Line (she only listens to rightwing voices)
CIA Again Postpones Release Of Torture Report That Could Undercut Cheney | The Plum Line (you know, the one he "demanded" be released to prove that torture works)
Krugman - Betraying the Planet - NYTimes.com
Pitney vs. Milbank: The Aftermath - Michael Calderone - Politico.com (Dana Dickbank)
New Media v. Old Media: The Nico Pitney-Dana Milbank Grudge Match | TPMTV
Booman Tribune: It's Really Dana Milbank Who is a D*ck
Firedoglake » Late Night: Ross Douthat and Dana Milbank Star in “The Mewling Game” (Milbank went to Yale, was Skull and Bones, probably appointed by Rove to cover WH, you can't make this up)
Jason Jones in Iran: in Which the Joke Was on Us : CJR (once again, the Daily Show is the real news)
Health-Care Market Characterized By Consolidation, Not Competition | TPMMuckraker
Howard Kurtz continues to pretend Joe Scarborough doesn't exist | Media Matters for America
Limbaugh refers to Obama's "soul shake" -- that "black handshake ... that he had with Chavez" | Media Matters for America
Mika Brzezinski proves my point | Media Matters for America (Rudy Giuliani, serial adulterer, screams CLINTON!)
Keeping News of David Rohde’s Kidnapping Off Wikipedia - NYTimes.com (NYT managing your news)
Reporter's Escape From Taliban Spurs Ethics Debate : NPR ("what else 40 international news organizations have agreed not to tell the public")
The inside drama behind the warrantless wiretapping story. - By Eric Lichtblau - Slate Magazine (NYT fixing elections, for your reference)
San Diego sheriff seeks probe in use of pepper spray at political event | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times (Sgt. Thomas Yancey, San Diego Sherrif's Dept, should be fired)

Scalia breaks ranks, slams Bush Fed on bank regulation | McClatchy
Bernard Madoff gets maximum 150 years in prison
Other Players in the Madoff Case - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Exiled by Russia - Casinos and Jobs - NYTimes.com
Loophole Helps GE Benefit From Bank Rescue Program - washingtonpost.com Industrial Giant Becomes Top Recipient in Debt-Guarantee Program (let's hear it for business-genius Jack Welch)
U.S. Plan to Stem Foreclosures Is Mired in Paper Avalanche - NYTimes.com
Matthew Yglesias » Arena Glut - metropolitan areas suffering from a glut of arenas (taxpayer dollars at work)

Daily Express | UK News :: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: NASA finds missing moon landing tapes
Is Oral Sex Good for Your Fetus? | momlogic.com
When Hammering, Women Nail It | LiveScience (men do better in the dark)
Manufacturing universes in a fractal multiverse - Ars Technica
Exploring a universe where nothing isn't empty - Ars Technica
Getting a theory of everything by ditching tenet of physics - Ars Technica
Cosmological Solutions of Emergent Noncommutative Gravity
3quarksdaily: The Winners of the 3 Quarks Daily 2009 Prize in Science
The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault
Like Burrs On Your Clothes, Molecule-size Capsules Can Deliver Drugs By Sticking To Targeted Cells

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
Review: Intel's X25-E SSD runs circles around rival drives
Building a crash-proof internet - tech - 29 June 2009 - New Scientist
It’s Now Legal to Catch a Raindrop in Colorado - NYTimes.com
The Day Facebook Changed Forever: Messages to Become Public By Default
YouTube - V trinadtsatom chasu nochi (1969) (fragment)
Gizmodo - Pirate Bay's Censor-Free YouTube Sails into Beta Extreme - The video bay (HTML5)

062809

Manuel Zelaya Arrested: Honduras President Detained By Soldiers
US Announces Shift In Afghanistan Drug Policy (more fail)
CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Iran still interfering in Iraq, top Army general says « - Blogs from CNN.com
Iran arrests British embassy staff for 'role in riots'
The End of the Beginning | Foreign Policy | What will be the legacy of the Green Revolution?
ThreatsWatch.Org: RapidRecon: Regime Change Iran: Movement Seeks to Eliminate 'Supreme Leader' Position
Iran's debate over theocracy: Why the turbans are at odds | The Economist A debate rages about the nature of clerical rule
The crisis in Iran: Is the dream already over? | The Economist
Battle for Iran shifts from the streets to the heart of power | World news | The Observer
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to blame over Iraq war, says Army report - mirror.co.uk

Emptywheel » The WaPo’s Omerta on Froomkin
Ombudsman Blog - Froomkin Departs, Leaving Angry Loyalists And Questions

White House open to new tax on health benefits - The Denver Post
Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan (same as the old detention plan)
Health-Care Activists Are Targeting Democrats Who Are Usually Allies - washingtonpost.com Sniping Among Liberals May Jeopardize Votes Needed to Pass Bill (WaPo crap: Dems should unite around insurance companies or they jeopardize their healthcare plans) )
Pawlenty Whacks Sanford: "Troubling And Hypocritical" (see below)
Op-Ed Columnist - Genius in the Bottle - NYTimes.com (Repubicans should either give up illicit sex or stop screaming about other people)
Open Left:: Ceci Connolly -- Ridiculous Reporter The Post assigned someone to write this story who neither understands the health care issue or modern politics (they are all stupid, actually)
The Scandalous Fall of the Modern Conservative Movement | TPM Photo Galleries
Fafblog! before the end of the world (wingnut/libertarian thinking)
Orcinus FBI's arrest of Hannity pal Hal Turner has been a long time coming
Congressional Memo - Climate Change Bill May Be Election Issue - NYTimes.com (Republicans party like it's 1993)
Daily Kos: Thank you, Keith Olbermann (the "O'Reilly of the Left" in the beady minds of lying Republicans)
Political Memo - Political Shifts on Gay Rights Lag Behind Culture - NYTimes.com (Obama still Republican)
The Bobblespeak Translations: The Chris Matthews Show - June 28, 2009
The Bobblespeak Translations: Meet The Press with David Axelrod, Lindsay Graham & Mitt Romney

Pillow Fights at the Four Seasons - NYTimes.com
Rules May Limit Use of Cash-for-Clunkers Program - NYTimes.com

Grant System Leads Cancer Researchers to Play It Safe - Series - NYTimes.com (no break-throughs for your money)
GUBA - BBC.Dolphins.Deep.Thinkers.DivX521.MP3.www.mvgroup.org.avi
Spooky computers closer to reality : Nature News

U.S. and Russia Differ on a Treaty for Cyberspace - Series - NYTimes.com (US: no treaties for us)
Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! - Update | Epicenter | Wired.com
How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking: Judge Richard Posner (Judge Torture is OK is monumentally stupid)
BPI Exec – Industry Shouldn’t Have Fought Napster (not that they will change their thinking)
New Role Urged for ICANN - Business Center - PC World (U.S. Out of ICANN Now!)
Google mocks Bing and the stuff behind it • The Register
The Day Facebook Changed Forever: Messages to Become Public By Default

Are Flickr Photos Fair Game for Home Printing? - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com (still, monumentally stupid comments)

062709

Memo confirms Bush and Blair knew claims Iraq had WMDs were lies

Obama prepares to hold Gitmo guys indefinitely, just as Bush did | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times Obama prepares to hold Gitmo guys indefinitely, just as Bush did
White House Drafts Executive Order To Allow Indefinite Detention Of Terror Suspects (new Bush, same as the old Bush)
Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Obama Issues Signing Statement On War Spending BIll (plus ca change)
From the White House Files: A Fight Over Michael Jackson - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com - John G. Roberts Jr. (how they spend their time)
Global warming bill passes the House (with 300 pages added in the middle of the night)
Debunking Canadian health care myths - The Denver Post
Bachmann Speaks Out Against Census -- And Government Asking About People's Mental Stability | TPMDC
Eliminationism on parade: Coulter, Joe the Plumber, and military chaplains' leader wish for deaths | Crooks and Liars (they're cranking up the hate machine)
Daily Kos: Saturday hate mail-apalooza (the Crazy Party)

Members of U.S. House Financial Services Committee snapped up or dumped bank stocks as bottom fell out of market - Metro - cleveland.com

Stephen Hawking: "Asteroid Impacts Biggest Threat to Intelligent Life in the Galaxy"
Dreaming of Nonsense: The Evolutionary Enigma of Dream Content: Scientific American
Graphene Emerging as the Miracle Material of the New Millenium : CleanTechnica

pandagon.net - Nerds and Geeks



062609

Iranian cleric says rioters should be executed | International | Reuters
Doctor flees Iran over Neda killing: report | International | Reuters
BBC NEWS | Africa | Horror of Kenya's 'witch' lynchings
Wave of Bombings Continues in Iraq - NYTimes.com (victory!)
G8 calls on Israel to freeze settlement building, resume negotiations - Israel News, Ynetnews (threatens Israel's right to expand)
A Thoroughly Un-American Institution - Council on Hemispheric Affairs (School of the America's torture school)
Ireland grants rights to same-sex partnerships - Yahoo! News
Neocon enemies, using diplomacy, reach deal for Shalit's release - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Michael Jackson Videos: The Best Of The Best
Michael Jackson : Pictures, Videos
Michael Jackson’s Death: Why Cardiac Arrest Is Deadlier Than Heart Attack - Health News - Health.com
How Michael Jackson's death shut down Twitter, overwhelmed Google... and 'killed off' Jeff Goldblum | Mail Online

White House Watch - White House Watched (Froomkin's last WaPo column)
Krugman - Not Enough Audacity - NYTimes.com (Obama's post-partisan flip-flopping on health care)
Ezra Klein - Does The White House Have a Secret Strategy for Health Reform?
Conyers' Wife Pleads Guilty On Corruption Count | TPMMuckraker
Cheney Predacted | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
Boehner: ZOMG! Climate Change Legislation Is Complicated! | TPMDC
Ezra Klein - The Truth About the Insurance Industry (profit!)
The Washington Monthly: Quote Of The Day (Jello Jay on Public Plan)
Marathon Man - Charles Homans Henry Waxman’s climate change bill won’t make it into law this year. That’s why he’s the right guy for the job.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Your Point Being? (strip searches of teen girls vital tool in war against girls)
Sex Scandal Flow Chart | TPM News Pages

BBC NEWS | Business | China argues to replace US dollar

Food, Energy Outpace Production - Technology - an eFood Article at Scientist Live
Think Progress » Rep. Broun receives applause on the House floor for calling global warming a ‘hoax.’ (R.Stupid)
Test Tube - Behind the scenes in the world of science
Michael Shermer » The Baloney Detection Kit (on RDF TV)
Rating attractiveness: Study finds consensus among men, not women | Science Blog
BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos (Netflix Prize: breaks 10% barrier)

ACLU sues TSA for illegally detaining and searching man carrying $4,700 in cash - Boing Boing (Thug Security Administration)
Internet Anonymity: A Right of the Past? | North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology
Nightjack case kills the right of anonymity | Media | guardian.co.uk (UK=China)
U.N. Agency Eyes Web Anonymity Controls - CBS News
WWIII Propaganda Posters - a set on Flickr
Flickr as an Interior Decorating Tool - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com
A Photo Editor - NYTimes Advocates Stealing Photos From Flickr To Decorate

Smart, Sexy, Spiritual Goddess Desired for Awesome Relationship with Extraordinary Man (Mark Emerson, new i-meme)

062509

A Deal To Save Iran? - The Daily Beast
ThreatsWatch.Org: RapidRecon: Unimaginable Horror In Tehran Today
Iran's Ahmadinejad compares Obama to Bush | International | Reuters
Raw Story » UK cop accuses colleagues of waterboarding pot suspects
The Koran does not put women in burkas -Times Online
Johann Hari: A fight for the Amazon that should inspire the world - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent

A federal commission offers standards for stopping sexual abuse behind bars. - washingtonpost.com A federal commission offers useful standards for preventing sexual abuse behind bars ("get tough on crime")
NPR: Turning The Camera Around: Health Care Stakeholders
Specter: Schumer Has It Right On The Public Option | TPMDC
Pentagon approves creation of cyber command | Reuters
Stewart On Sanford: Just Another Politician With A Conservative Mind And A Liberal Penis (video)
For Press, Rumors of Straying but No Hard Evidence - NYTimes.com (late to the party, NYT)
Daily Kos: Adultery is a crime in South Carolina! (Southern values: Six months to a year in prison?)
Think Progress » Perino: Sanford affair proves we need to ‘elect more women.’ (because women never cheat)
NY Times Bashes Obama’s HuffPo Question As “Staged,” But Hailed Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” Moment | The Plum Line (your newpaper masters)
"Go ahead, Jeff": Talon News "reporter" Jeff Gannon is McClellan's lifeline during briefings | Media Matters for America (and the NYT didn't say a thing)
UPDATED: Why the Village is so mad at Nico Pitney | Media Matters for America (Dana Milbank, Republican wanker)
Savana Redding Strip Search Was Illegal, Supreme Court Says (Clarence Thomas dissents: loves girls underpants)
pandagon.net Zero tolerance strip search declared illegal, but what are the implications?
intershame.com: Habitually Mislabeling Politicians (Fox: Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot were Democrats)
The Washington Monthly: Ralph Reed? (Christian Coalition makes a comeback!)
Media Matters Responds To Michael (Weiner) Savage Threats, Cyberstalking (video)
According To WSJ, Google Not Just A 'Thief' But A 'Digital Vampire' | Techdirt (from the mouth of Satan)
Sadly, No! » Time Crapsule (wingut compendium from the War on Terra)

Jobless Claims Show Surprise Gain; GDP Loss Cut to 5.5% - CNBC.com
Fannie, Freddie asked to relax condo loan rules: report | Reuters (tighter rules would delay re-inflating the housing bubble)
Wall Street Begins Campaign to Thwart ‘Populist Overreaction’ - Bloomberg.com (overreaction, huh)
Cash for Clunkers: Will your car qualify? | abcactionnews.com

Email patterns can predict impending doom - tech - 22 June 2009 - New Scientist
The Danger of Digging Deeper - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
Turning a Profit on Juice | Dreamers | Reader's Digest

Michael Jackson is dead [Updated] | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Gulls' vicious attacks on whales
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
London's Treasure Hunt Riots | Paul Slade - Journalist

062409

North Korea Threatens To Wipe Out The U.S. "Once And For All"
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'Dozens dead' in Baghdad bombing (bringing freedom to Iraq)
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Ex-detainees allege Bagram abuse (no photos, didn't happen)
U.S. to send ambassador to Syria after 4 years - Yahoo! News (Ambassador to the Axis of Evil)
U.S. Drone Strike Said to Kill 60 in Pakistan - NYTimes.com (that plan not to kill civilians worked really well)
Deadliest Strike Yet in Pakistan Drone War | Danger Room | Wired.com (at funeral for civilians killed in previous deadly fucked-up bombing)
UN Backs Drug Decriminalization In World Drug Report (Republicans nix plan)
Berlusconi: I've Never Paid For Sex (world leader)
New clashes reported in Iran – The CNN Wire - CNN.com Blogs
VoteForAmerica.net :: Realtime Results From Iran and USA :: The purpose of this article is to invalidate the preliminary claims of election fraud in Iran
Jason Jones: Behind the Veil - Ayatollah You So | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
Bishops 'could be banished from the House of Lords' - Telegraph
Marketing, Mobile, IT and Business Daily News by Candeias » Blog Archive » German court rules pupils can rate teachers online
Ombudsman Blog - Post Axes Froomkin's "White House Watch" (after receiving 800 comments on Froomkin's firing, Omblog takes a vacation - after deleting hundreds of comments)
Hal Turner, Internet Radio Host, Arrested For Inciting Violence Against Public Officials...Again (terrorist rightwing radionuts)

The "Neda video," torture, and the truth-revealing power of images - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (Half of the American citizenry is now explicitly pro-torture for "suspects" not known terrorists) (+Wapo news-clown Dana Milbank)
Dana Milbank Shows Nico Pitney What A Serious Journalist Looks Like
NPR: Harsh Interrogation Techniques or Torture? (looks like NPR's ombudsman fled to Argentina)
David Westin: My Response To House Republicans' Criticism Of Our Upcoming Health Care Special
Why the Critics of a Public Option for Health Care Are Wrong | Robert Reich's Blog
Matthew Yglesias » Baucus Regrets Not Including Single-Payer in the Health Care Mix
David Price: Obama's Classroom Spies (Obama makes Spies for Jesus permanent intelligence budget item)
On Fox, Mark Sanford "(D)" holds press conference | Media Matters for America
Sanford Press Conference Leaves Unanswered Questions | TPMMuckraker
Flashback: Sanford Voted To Impeach Bill Clinton | TPMDC
Gov Sanford Explains How Affair Began | TPMTV
Sanford In Argentina, Not On Appalachian Trail, He Says On Return (they both start with "A")
Source: "There Is Some Evidence [Sanford] Was Not Alone" | TPMMuckraker
The Missing Governor: A Timeline | TPMMuckraker (LOLfuckedupRepublicans)
Sanford: Don't Cry For Me (I Was In) Argentina | TPM
Sanford To Lover: "I Love The Erotic Beauty Of You Holding Yourself" | TPMMuckraker (the story that just keeps on giving)
Revealed: The Sanford/Ensign Connection | TPMMuckraker (special club for cheating Christians) x
Southern Political Report
Glenn Beck Plays With Dolls On "The O'Reilly Factor" (video)
DOJ: AIPAC case witness was asked to 'fake...suicide' - Josh Gerstein - politico.com (but ... what about ACORN!)
Gawker - How Fox News Educates Its Viewers - Bill O'reilly (Barbie dolls + ACORN)
GOP Congressman Says Obama's Hesitance On Iran Responsible For Violence (cause he didn't bomb the shit out of them)
Balloon Juice » But that he loved himself more (John McCain, world-class narcissist)
The Bobblespeak Translations: Obama Press Conference - June 23, 2009
Registered Traveler flier-pass vendor Clear shuts down - Travel - LATimes.com
Steve Brill's Airport Clear Card Grounded | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD (Steve Brill: serial FAIL)
A Tiny Revolution: CBS News Edits Out Billy Graham Reference To "Synagogue Of Satan"
Milbank incensed by "planted question" -- but not enough to tell readers what it was | Media Matters for America (your WaPo news guardians at work - criticizing "liberal outlets such as the Huffington Post" and letting actual Iranians speak)
Why Obama's Iranian Citizen Question Really Matters (not your news-clowns petulant complaints)
Nixon Comments Disclosed on Abortion and Watergate - NYTimes.com (stupid NYT headline, should have been "Nixon revealed as racist)

Here comes a new Pecora Commission! | Crooks and Liars
California to Pay Creditors With I.O.U.’s - NYTimes.com
Do you really want to tax ability? | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
Calculated Risk: Shadow Housing Inventory: Walked Away, but Lender Hasn't Foreclosed
Females who rent weigh less: Survey Homeowning women outweigh their renting counterparts by an average of 12 pound
Stunning pictures of 'hole in the clouds' as astronauts witness volcano eruption from the International Space Station | Mail Online

The Breakthrough Institute
Putting A Financial Spin On Global Warming : NPR
Last Chance to See. Angkor Wat Edition.


VQR » Blog » Chris Anderson’s Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
Wired Struggles to Find Niche in Magazine World - NYTimes.com
MySpace Layoffs Continue: 300 International Jobs, 2/3 Of Overseas Workforce
New Jersey Girl Posts Nude Photos Of Herself, Gets Probation

062309

Iran elections: Ahmadinejad to be sworn in as president by August | World news | guardian.co.uk
Iran in crisis: live - 23 June 2009 | News | guardian.co.uk
Son's Death Has Iranian Family Asking Why - WSJ.com
Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology - WSJ.com European Gear Used in Vast Effort to Monitor Communications
The 2009 Failed States Index | Foreign Policy | 2009 Failed States Index - Interactive Map and Rankings (Israel off the list; China added)
YouTube - North Korean Killing Fields 2
BBC NEWS | UK | Cold War 'war book' released

Op-Ed Columnist - Who Are We? - NYTimes.com Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House.
Consortiumnews: Serving the Medical-Industrial Complex
Hullabaloo: dday: Learn, Damn You, Learn!!!
Sotomayor Fight Eroding What’s Left Of Latino Support For GOP? | The Plum Line
Sanford Disappearance Sparks Fight With Lieutenant Governor
McCain Hits Obama On Iran Again, Joe Klein Tells Him "Be Quiet" (video)
How MySpace Blew It - The Daily Beast (everyone was stupid)
Why Work?

Cars and Trucks Made in the U.S.A. - Map - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Special Interest Money Means Longer Odds for Public Option (more corrupt=less support for public plan)

YouTube - Star formation by collapse of molecular clouds

Why do so many believe in Jesus? Because they don’t actually know what the Bible says. « the BEattitude
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews

062209

Tehran Broadcast
almost.at - Protest in Iran: Day 9
Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away | CommonDreams.org
The Devil Is in the Digits: Evidence That Iran's Election Was Rigged - washingtonpost.com (Mullahs cheated, just like Bush)
Iran: Police break up fresh protests in Tehran - Adnkronos Security
Unrest in Iran Sharply Deepens Rift Among Clerics - NYTimes.com
Iranian state television Reports 10 people Killed During Tehran Protests - Sky News Video Player
Iraq Blasts Kill More Than a Dozen - NYTimes.com (invade Iraq!)
Fondly, Greenland Loosens Danish Rule - NYTimes.com
U.S. Toughens Airstrike Policy in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com (blowing up civilians not working)
Video: Arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number | Environment | guardian.co.uk (no names, no faces, no numbers)
'Drug tourism' seen as Mexico legalizes some substances | Chronicle | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Understanding Obama on Iran - Andy McCarthy - The Corner on National Review Online The fact is that, as a man of the hard Left, Obama is more comfortable with a totalitarian Islamic regime than he would be with a free Iranian society (Republican nutcase/legal expert on parade)

Sanford, missing since Thursday, reportedly located - Local / Metro - The State (bizarro Republicans)
Watchdog group plans ethics complaint against Ensign - Las Vegas Sun (more bizarro Republicans)
White House Changes the Terms of a Campaign Pledge About Posting Bills Online - NYTimes.com (transparency is so 2008)
He's Barack Obama | Funny Video Animation by JibJab
Oxdown Gazette » Super Wealthy Sen. Feinstein Joins Wealthy Republican Senators to Claim US Can’t Afford Health Care for Everyone (DiFi hates you)
Krugman - Health Care Showdown - NYTimes.com - a handful of Democratic senators are still determined to party like it’s 1993 (Blue Dogs will block reform)
GOP: no benefit to court fight - Manu Raju - politico.com (it's all about them)
Matthew Yglesias » Waxman-Markey Will Help the Poor, Impose Modest Costs on the Wealthy (+Republican lies)
Insurers Revoke Policies To Avoid Paying High Costs : NPR (no steenking socialism)
GMA interview of Obama health care team ignores progressive concerns | Media Matters for America (Diane Sawyer brings you corporate-approved news)
Google Using Wikipedia as a Source for Its News Site - NYTimes.com (without paying the NYT anything!)
Google News experimenting with links to Wikipedia on its homepage » Nieman Journalism Lab
Red States vs Blue States Map and Analysis - Esquire - Is America Moving to Blue-State Country? (the Bush immigration wave is reversing)

Firedoglake » 238 Members of Congress Disagree with the President: The Fed Needs More Accountability (we've moved on to post-transparency and post-accountability)
Continuing Claims “Exhaustion Rate” | The Big Picture
Top Indian CEO: Most American Grads Are ‘Unemployable’ - Global CIO Blog - InformationWeek (big surprise)
California’s Solution to $24 Billion Budget Gap Is Going to Bring Some Pain - NYTimes.com (Aaanold and the Republicans have destroyed California)
Confessions of a Bailout CEO Wife - Portfolio.com

The Brain: Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions | DISCOVER Magazine
The Weirdest Object in the Solar System? | LiveScience
Can university subjects reveal terrorists in the making? - opinion - 15 June 2009 - New Scientist (if they're Muslim engineers)


Scientology leadership rife with physical violence, report says - Los Angeles Times
Should Disordered Appetites be Civil Rights? - Catholic Online (Catholics: gay=obesity)
BBC NEWS | Americas | Miami's tent city for sex offenders
Female intimate partner violence and developmental trajectories of abusive females | International Journal of Men's Health | Find Articles at BNET
Connecticut Law Tribune: Shock Jock May Have Stepped Over Line (right-wing violence)

The Benefits of a Classical Education - O'Reilly Radar
Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners - NYTimes.com
Google Trends: gay lesbian (most teen-aged boys are lesbians)
The new conservative rap ‘sensation’ sweeping Fox Nation - Daily Kos TV (go Republicans!)
Did I say that? | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
John Lennon’s Pact with Satan by Joseph Niezgoda - book review by Margaret Gallitzin
The 1Kb CSS Grid by Tyler Tate :: A simple, lightweight approach
CSS3 Unleashed – Tips, Tricks and Techniques | W3Avenue
Gastrosexual

062109

Claims of vote-rigging in Iran backed by British academics’ analysis - Times Online
In Iran, One Woman's Death May Have Many Consequences - Time
Google LatLong: Imagery update for Tehran
Violence Grips Tehran Amid Crackdown - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Latest from Iran - Basij headquarters set on fire
BBC : Teheran coverage
Planned North Korea Missile Launch Has Hawaii Residents On Edge (sure)
Iraq: Suicide truck bombing kills dozens - CNN.com
DAWN.COM | World | Beat extremists you can, says Obama
Global Voices Online » China: Mass incident sparked by a dead body

In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health - NYTimes.com
Frank Rich - Obama’s Make-or-Break Summer - NYTimes.com (no financial reform, probably not much else)
Worst false equivalency of the week | Media Matters for America Poll: Obama down, Cheney up (President Cheney)
Donald Rumsfeld in Repose -- Time
Email from John Harris: regrets dispute with Dan Froomkin - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (media=Republicans=lies)
The Washington Post, Dan Froomkin and the establishment media - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The Froomkin firing - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com - "But now he looks like someone who was right when the serious people were wrong — and that means he has to go." (Fred Hiatt, of course)
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: The Anti-Semite Card, Again (this is how they work)
Campaign Silo » How The Post Tried To Kill Froomkin’s Traffic
Watchdog Blog » Blog Archive » On Calling Bullshit (11/30/2006)
2010 Census Will Count Same-Sex Couples In Reversal Of Bush Policy
The Bobblespeak Translations: Meet The Press with Sam Nunn and Fred Thompson - June 21, 2009
Larry Sabato And The D.C. Pundit-Industrial Complex | The Plum Line (they are all on the take)
Matthew Yglesias » Public Opinion Strongly Favors Public Plan (so, we won't have a public plan)
Oxdown Gazette » Times/CBS Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Ready for Universal Care with Public Health Plan. Where’s Congress?

Obama's False Financial Reform (everyone was to blame, no one was responsible, regulation would be un-Republican)
Goldman Sachs to make record bonus payout | Business | The Observer (biggest bonuses in history)
Nortel to sell itself off in pieces - Yahoo! Finance

Everyday Scientist » missing link? (not so much)
Alcohol a Common Factor in Suicides - NYTimes.com

Deep Throat: FBI Tried To Stop Film (highest levels of Nixon's Government)
At V.A. Hospital, a Rogue Cancer Unit - NYTimes.com (Bush care: botched 92 of 116 cancer treatments over a span of more than six years)
Why Are Condoms Disliked by So Many Men? - ABC News - $423,500 grant to researchers at The Kinsey Institute
» A Deeper Look at The Iranian Firewall · Security to the Core | Arbor Networks Security
Full Commodore 64 Emulator Rejected from App Store | Touch Arcade
Chrome and Firefox 3.5 Memory Usage
AMD Outs Lying Laptop Makers About Battery Life - HotHardware
Mount Saint Joseph High School (this site will be different tomorrow)
Matt Cutts: PageRank sculpting
About rel="nofollow" - Webmasters/Site owners Help
My dad saved me, and I killed him - Los Angeles Times
YouTube - Interview with Frank Zappa
Buffy vs Edward (Twilight Remixed)
Get a Life, Holden Caulfield - NYTimes.com
East Villagers Remember a Cat Called Pretty Boy - NYTimes.com

062009

Michael Roston - Newsbroke - The suicide bombing of the Khomeini shrine has all the signs of a false flag attack - True/Slant
iran - News, photos, topics, and quotes
Parvez Sharma: There Will Be Blood -- Exclusive Interview With an Iranian Journalist in Tehran
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | MPs 'over-claimed' on council tax More than 50 MPs have claimed expenses for council tax they have not paid (bunch of tax cheats)
The Dawning of Internet Censorship in Germany : netzpolitik.org

Campaign Silo » Froomkin v. Washington Post — The Battle Continues (disgusting: "Froomkin was fired for making his colleagues look bad by being right all the time")
Eschaton: Liberal (Froomkin)
YouTube - Keith Olbermann: Bill Maher Talks About Taking On Obama
YouTube - HBO's Bill Maher Takes On President Obama
Poll: Republican Party Now Less Popular Than Dick Cheney | The Plum Line (good news for Republicans!)
Orange County News - Meet Orly Taitz, Queen Bee of People Obsessed With Barack Obama's Birth Certificate (and this is why)
Obsidian Wings: The Big Reveal (George Packer: anti-liberal and bad-faith artist)
On Terrorist Watch List, but Allowed to Buy Guns - NYTimes.com (if you're a white Republican)
Spy Training Program Could Come to Universities - washingtonpost.com
YouTube - New Rules Bill Maher Jun 19, 2009 (two-party system is over; we have a center-right party and a crazy party)
Reader’s Digest Moves Right of Middle-America - NYTimes.com (goes right-wing + "pink wool shirt-dress, patent leather Manolo Blahnik heels, and diamond hoop earrings")

Truthdig - Reports - The American Empire Is Bankrupt
ClubOrlov: Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation
Live Interactive Ship Location Map | Research Reloaded
Live Interactive Ships Traffic Worldwide Map
Hard Times for New England’s 3-Deckers - NYTimes.com

Cancer: shock breakthrough - Health News, Health & Families - The Independent Patients with inoperable prostate disease recover after single dose of drug
Dad: More than Just a Guy with Sperm | LiveScience
Chronic High Doses of Cannabinoids Promote Hippocampal Neurogenesis « Science. Why not?
The Beckley Foundation :: Research Projects | Investigating Cerebral Circulation as the Physiological Underpinning of Consciousness
Get Smarter - The Atlantic (July/August 2009) (evolution of intelligence +William Calvin)
Like a hole in the head: The return of trepanation - health - 17 June 2009 - New Scientist
Race matters to 3-month-olds, study finds
YouTube - Mandy Patinkin - South Pacific - Carefully Taught

Islamic veil comes under U.S. court scrutiny - Holy Post
France to consider banning the burka - Telegraph
Home | global oneness project
Douglas Murray: Why we must debate with extremists like al-Muhajiroun | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk The oxygen of free societies is freedom of speech. Everything short of incitement has to be tolerated, even when it is wrong
Petitioners penalized $2,000
The Only Artificial Thing Abercrombie & Fitch Wants on Its Employees Is Its Image [Yup, Another Lawsuit] – Zelda Lily: Feminism in a Bra
Bozeman City job requirement raises privacy concerns (and whose idea was this?)

Worio Search - discovery engine that works alongside keyword search to expose you to stuff you've been missing using search alone.
Head to Head: The Nokia N97 and HTC Touch Pro 2 - All About Symbian Feature
Nokia N97 review: Lock, stock and touch - GSMArena.com
Nokia N97 Review - (Phone Arena Reviews)
Samsung B7610 OmniaPRO - Full phone specifications
Flip Flop Fly Ball
Rob Zombie Claims He Owns the Word "Zombie" | My Ghoul Friday
YouTube - THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE Horror Documentary
Gawker - World's Worst Artist, Jesus Team Up For Scam - Art
No Shirts at Improv Everywhere
YouTube - All the Great Operas...in 10 Minutes

061909

Iran protests: live - 19 June 2009 | News | guardian.co.uk (
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the politics of denial | Simon Tisdall | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Khamenei Speech Angers UK
Images reveal full horror of 'Amazon's Tiananmen' - Americas, World - The Independent
Parents banned from taking pictures of their own children at sports day - Telegraph (police state UK gets even more bizaare)
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Lisbon's light-touch drugs policy ("off the table" in US)

The Washington Monthly - Dept. Of Elections, Consequences (should have said "shut up, you blundering asshole")
Daily Dose - New Bipartisan Group to Tackle Health-Care Reform (Obama loves bi-partisan solutions)
Ezra Klein - The Finance Committee's "Comprehensive Incrementalism" there is no strong public plan able to negotiate low rates and implement aggressive reforms (Obama's pro-business private plan with "incremental reforms")
Public Strongly Supports Public Health Care Option (ooooh, Mr Public, we're so afraid of you)
Blue Dog Effort Threatens Dem Unity On Public Option Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) (fucks America again)
ABC Says No to GOP Ads During Obama Healthcare Special - US News and World Report (Repubs wanted to run attack ads during special)
Fox caught with its pants down on ABC attacks - Daily Kos TV
Spouse of Ensign's mistress sought help in letter to Fox News - Las Vegas Sun Husband’s account of how wife’s affair with Ensign ‘ruined our lives and careers’ comes to light (but Fox buried the story)
Why do so many people say they voted for Obama when they didn't? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
Barbara Boxer: Call Me 'Senator' (Mr Military)
Historical Keepsake Photo: Tennessee GOP Staffer Emails Racist Obama "Spook" Photo (Sherri Goforth, Republican racist asshole should be fired)
Sen Diane Black’s (R-Gallatin) legislative aid circulates racist email « Nashville Is Talking

Op-Ed Columnist - Out of the Shadows - NYTimes.com his plan basically punts on the question of how to keep it from happening all over again, pushing the hard decisions off to future regulators (biggest financial crisis in history, and Obama brings forth ... no reform)
Worse than subprime? Other mortgages imploding slowly | McClatchy "They're probably going to default at a rate that makes subprime look like a walk in the park"
CEOs of Bailed-Out Banks Flew to Resorts on Firms' Jets - WSJ.com (banksters at play on your dime)

The Earth under the microscope

Unarmed, Innocent Man Shot, Killed by Miami Beach Police : Federal Jack (walking while Muslim)

AT&T and Verizon deny price-fixing accusations | Wireless - CNET News
YouTube - Terminator 3 Sergent Candy Scene

061809

Robert Fisk: Secret letter 'proves Mousavi won poll' - Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent
Is this another Iranian revolution? | TPMCafe
Police stop and search innocent people to balance race figures, terror watchdog says - Times Online (UK police state)
South Africa Rape Study: 1 In 4 Men Admit Rape
BBC NEWS | UK | First trial without jury approved (land of the Magna Carta)

The Washington Post fires its best columnist. Why? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Watchdog Blog » Blog Archive » Celebrity Journalism at the White House

Bush Breaks Silence, Goes After Obama In Speech
Cheney's FBI Interview Over Plame Leak To Be Reviewed By Judge
Senate OKs block of alleged abuse photos - CNN.com (more transparency)
Emptywheel » In April 2003, after Waterboarding Him 183 Times, the CIA Admitted KSM Was Lying to Them
Court finds convicts have no right to test DNA - Boston.com
Obama Poll Sees Doubt on Budget and Health Care - NYTimes.com
Obama Boost: New Poll Shows 76% Support For Choice Of Public Plan
Daily Kos: Without a Public Option, It's Not Really "Reform" (Daschle, Dole Say Public Option Must Be Scrapped: corporate tools)
Daschle's Firm And Group Have Ties To Private Health Care Industry
USNews.com: Political Bulletin: Polls Show Declining Support For Obama Decisions (turns out, a pro-business Republican President might have some problems)
Battle Brewing On Capitol Hill Over Obama's Proposed Consumer Protection Agency (banksters will veto)
Twitter Users Heckle Hoekstra En Masse | TPMDC (Republicans Battle Brewing On Capitol Hill Over Obama's Proposed Consumer Protection Agency
are absurd)
Firedoglake » Did John Ensign Report His Ex-Employee’s Attempted Extortion?
Two sources: Supreme Court ruling on U.S. Senate race to arrive tomorrow | Politics in Minnesota

Firedoglake » Financial Re-Regulation: Grades are in, and Obama’s Plan Gets a D+ (pro-business Republican)
Obama's Plan Falls Flat With Many Economists : NPR
Ezra Klein - The Green Lantern Theory of Financial Regulation
Jobless Claims Rise, but Continuing Claims Shrink - CNBC.com
BBC NEWS | Business | US unveils banking reform plans
Historical Home Prices
Senator asks about firings of watchdogs -- chicagotribune.com
Richard Scrushy Ordered To Pay $2.9B To Shareholders

Bug resurrected after 120,000 years: Scientific American
Quantum Secrets: A New Standard in Crytopgraphy?
Sonic Black Hole Traps Sound Waves: Discovery News
Avoiding digital decay: Not forgotten | The Economist
What If Vitamin D Deficiency Is a Cause of Autism?: Scientific American
Technology Review: A Stem-Cell Therapy for Blindness Advanced Cell Technology will seek approval for human trials of its treatment for vision loss.
s Scientists capture the first image of memories being made
Understanding Genetics: Human Health and the Genome I recently read that the male Y chromosome used to have 1,438 genes, and only has 45 now. If the chromosome continues to degrade, are men going to go extinct?

Internet still the leading source for news
Michael Geist - Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society (society? what Disney?)
Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty - Ars Technica $80,000 per song damage award
Alex Faaborg - » The New Firefox Icon

Fox Newser Arrested for Dragging Cyclist 200 Yards | PEEK | AlterNet (another Republican)
City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network logins and passwords for background checks - Boing Boing
Neb. Catholic Group Pushes Rule Change Allowing Licensed Psychologists to Refuse Treatment for Gays | Carnal San Francisco
Fliers call for drivers to blockade Sunrise Century cyclists : County News : Boulder Daily Camera
Vancouver police update camera/cell phone seizure policy
Chicago police to mark 1968 'riots' - UPI.com
Chicago Examined: Anatomy Of A "Police Riot' - TIME
Review: Hard disk vs. solid-state drive -- is an SSD worth the money?
Appeals Court Backs Prison for E-Mail Obscenity | Threat Level | Wired.com
NSA Secret Database Ensnared President Clinton’s Private E-mail | Threat Level | Wired.com
YouTube - "Lightning" Amazing Street Performance (monks with flaming heads on Segways)

061709

New Protest Builds as Iran Expands Its Crackdown - NYTimes.com (protestors face death under Islamic law)
Mousavi Calls For New Rally Thursday In Direct Challenge To Supreme Leader
Iran protests: live | News | guardian.co.uk
Israel's Lieberman tells Clinton no to settlement freeze | TPM News Pages
Drug War: Mexico Military FInds One Of Country's Largest Meth Labs

Holder Wants As "Complete A Report" On Bush Lawyers As Soon As Possible
House passes war-funding bill, despite reservations | McClatchy (Dems on board)
E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress - NYTimes.com (yes, they lied; call Joe Klein)
Obama blocks access to White House visitor list - White House- msnbc.com Taking Bush's position, administration denies msnbc.com request for logs (coad industry execs protected: transparency)
What's 100,000 or so deaths "to retain political and professional credibility"? | Philly | 06/16/2009 - what went wrong with media coverage in the run-up and then during the war in Iraq (so much blood on their hands)
Michael Hastings - The Hastings Report - Media: Why supporting the Iraq War was the smart career move - True/Slant (and will land you in hell forever)
Meet the press—and see why it failed at several critical points during the Iraq War.
White House Explains IG Firing -- Will It Be Enough? | TPMMuckraker
Obama to extend some benefits to same-sex partners - Ben Smith - Politico.com - like "relocation assistance" (to some foreign country)
Daily Kos: Obama reacts to angry LGBT community ... with relocation assistance (no domestic partner benefits)
Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Sex-Selection Red Herring (Lord Saletan of Slate and his bogus anti-abortion arguements)
Should we ban sex-selective abortion? « Accumulating Peripherals
DETNEWS | Weblogs | Politics Blog
Streetsblog Capitol Hill » GOP’s New Attack on Health Care Reform Bill: It Promotes Walking! (fat old white guys hate walking ... where's my limo?)
Ezra Klein - Health Insurance Exchanges: The Most Important, Undernoticed Part of Health Reform
Healthcare CEOs Shoot Themselves in the Foot | Mother Jones (private insurance is great! until you need it)
Top 7 Conservative New Media FAILS So Far this Year | TPMDC
More Far-Right Violence? Anti-Immigrant Suspects In Arizona Killing Have Ties To White Supremacists | TPMMuckraker
I'm pretty sure this is why Juan Williams isn't allowed to associate himself with NPR when he appears on The O'Reilly Factor   | Media Matters for America
John Ensign Affair: GOP Senator Admits Relationship With Ex-Campaign Staffer (case #9128401 in Repubican hypocracy - Ensign is a Promise Keeper! and trashed Clinton and Craig)
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » And Another for the Family Values File
Tangled Web Of Jobs, Money, Illicit Sex Links Ensign, Former Staffers | TPMMuckraker (just gets better)
Archive » O’Reilly study generates national attention » Indiana University School of Journalism
Roger Ebert's Journal: Archives The O'Reilly Procedure
PBS to ban new religious shows - Washington Post- msnbc.com Compromise ends threat to stations that already broadcast church services (like WBUR)

Firedoglake » Obama’s Financial Overhaul — More Like a Tune-Up (the greatest financial disaster in the history of the world has brought forth ... no change)
Op-Ed Contributor - Too Poor to Make the News - NYTimes.com
Calif. Aid Request Spurned By U.S. - washingtonpost.com Officials Push State To Repair Budget

FDA: Zicam Can Cause Permanent Loss Of Smell (VIDEO)

Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off - The Atlantic (July/August 2009)
Vogue editor launches new war on size-zero fashion - Times Online
Therese Borchard: 7 Ways To Stay Out 0f The Psych Ward
Charity in gay adoption battle hit with legal bills | 2009 News | The Christian Institute (no money left for "charity")

No name-calling - Shenanigans - Politico.Com (Elizabeth Becton, better known as "Liz" makes herself famous on the internets for all enternity)
YouTube - Play Helen off Keyboard Cat. And then join Daryl and John.

061609

The "Bomb Iran" contingent's newfound concern for The Iranian People - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Matthew Yglesias » Neocon Egomania on Iran John McCain
The Chosun Ilbo (English Edition): Daily News from Korea - N.Korean Heir Apparent Linked to Assassination Plot

Obama Blocks Visitor List Access, Echoing Bush (meet the new boss)
Editorial - A Bad Call on Gay Rights - NYTimes.com (more of the same boss)
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Rachel Maddow and Howard Dean on Obama's DOMA controversy
TPMDC Morning Roundup | The House GOP will vote en masse against the new war funding bill. What about the troops?
Matthew Yglesias » On the War Supplemental We can all recall the days when voting against an emergency war supplemental bill was the most evil and un-American thing ever
GOP activist likens Michelle Obama to a gorilla - Feministing
About Sonia Sotomayor's "summer reading" | Media Matters for America (Pat Buchanan, Tom Ashbrook's favorite guest)
Attack of the Zombie Republicans - The Daily Beast - Rush, Newt, and Dick are doing what zombies do best: laying waste to everyone’s brains.
A Letter to the President from Joe Solmonese « HRC Back Story (gay rights "off the table")

California to miss budget deadline, meltdown nears | U.S. | Reuters (Aaanold terminates Califoria)
British Airways asks staff to work for free - Times Online

The Rise of the Milky Way | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Review - Drugs and Justice - Ethics
Has the mystery of sex been explained at last? - life - 15 June 2009 - New Scientist

Scientists: Warp Drive Might Not Be a Good Idea - Gearlog
Rachel #439: Tire Dust
Jewish couple sue neighbours for 'imprisoning' them with automatic hallway light | Mail Online (sound familiar?)

Opera Unite
Opera Unite : programming

061509

Daily Kos: Obama: Iranian people "should be heard and respected"
Iran Updates (VIDEO): Live-Blogging The Uprising
Why is Dennis Ross being ousted as Obama envoy to Iran? - Haaretz - Israel News (Iran unhappy with Zionist Jew as Envoy)
Iran elections: The hope that Iran threw away - Telegraph A vital chance to rebuild economic relations with the West was lost in the disputed election
Thousands Protest In Iran Amid Call For Vote Probe : NPR
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs The meaning of the Tehran spring By Pepe Escobar
Don't call what happened in Iran last week an election. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine It was a crudely stage-managed insult to everyone involved.
Mondoweiss: Shocker: Number of Americans who say U.S. should support Israel drops from 71% to 44% in one year - "sharp drop in Americans’ perception that Israel’s government seeks peace"
Netanyahu, Mideast peace and a return to the Axis of Evil - Haaretz - Israel News

Oxdown Gazette » Obama’s Stunning Health Care Reform Speech to the AMA (they booed him)
Emptywheel » Court Allows Padilla Suit Against Yoo To Proceed (wow)
Leon Panetta and the C.I.A.: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker (no: satsq)
CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants U.S. attacked | Reuters (what gave you that idea?)
Defense Department sees protests as terrorism - ContraCostaTimes.com (there goes your democracy)
Exclusive: House Dems Planning Major Changes To Secret CIA Briefings Of Congress | The Plum Line
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect | "It Is Not About Us"
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Also, I’ll Have Kale, Spinach and Peas For Dinner the coverage of the events in Iran by American bloggers was giving me a warblogger circa 2003 vibe
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Speaking of Group Wanks
a Without a budget, California could issue IOUs - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee
The Architecture Issue - Getting Up to Speed - High Speed Rail in California - NYTimes.com
Monserrate Flips Back to Democrats in State Senate - NYTimes.com (dis-fucking-fuctional)

Krugman - Stay the Course - NYTimes.com (Repubs want to back to biz as usual)
Extended Stay Hotels Seeks Chapter 11 - WSJ.com
Calculated Risk: Mall Space
Home | BankTracker | Investigative Reporting Workshop

N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab
Wordle - NY Times Hard Words
“Dear Pixar, How About a Chick Flick…?” | Cartoon Brew
YouTube - Eric Whitacre - With a Lily in Your Hand
YouTube - Eric Whitacres sleep Lyrics by Robert Frost

The dawn of quantum applications
U.S. Births Hint at Bias for Boys in Some Asians - NYTimes.com
The long debate over adding ununbium to the periodic table of the elements. - By Sam Kean - Slate Magazine
HowStuffWorks "Can a person remember being born?"
Think tank: Costly libel suits are stifling science -Times Online
Women May Not Be So Picky After All About Choosing a Mate + the mere act of approaching a potential love interest can boost desire

Charlie Lynch: One Year in Prison : Dispatches from the Culture Wars (prison-state Amerika)
HeraldNet: Activist Shawna Forde charged in double slaying (Minutmen anti-immigration thugs)
Marijuana Legalization: Momentum Building For Broad Debate: AP

Cell Phone Execs Will Face Questions On Text Messaging Price Hikes | News Junkie
Nokia N97 review from TechRadar UK's expert reviews of Mobile phones
Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3 | CSS | Smashing Magazine
Desktop lets you treat Firefox bookmarks like desktop icons
24 Great Open Source Apps for Admins & Technicians
Technology Review: Hunch: A Cure for Indecision?
Social Graph & Beyond: Tim Berners-Lee's Graph is The Next Level
Data 2.0: How the Web disrupts our relational database world
Neo4j - a Graph Database that Kicks Buttox | High Scalability
URL Toolbox: 90+ URL Shortening Services
Breakingviews.com - A Virtual Bank With Real Woes - NYTimes.com
EVE Online | EVE Insider | Forums
My 16 Favorite Keyboard Cat Videos [Play Them Off, Keyboard Cat!]

061309

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Guide: How Iran is ruled
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: It's Spreading (videos of Iranian protestors)
Daily Kos: Updated IV: Breaking: Ayatollas Call for New Elections, Telephone Cut Off Teheran, Mousavi Arrested
Ahmadinejad Re-Elected; Protests Flare - NYTimes.com (Bush redux)
Air France pilots faced a cascade of failures - Los Angeles Times

GOP-Leaning Majority Seen Fading in U.S. - washingtonpost.com (permanent minority)
Orcinus Tragedy at the Holocaust Museum: Stand Up To Terror (chronology of the rise of right-wing terror)
Think Progress » Buchanan argues against affirmative action: ‘One prefers the old bigotry.’ (favorite guest of MSNBC and NPR)
O'Reilly Rages Against Joan Walsh Over Tiller Murder (driven by demons) )
Gawker - How to Crush Bill O'Reilly - Bill O'reilly
Newsmax.com - Rabbi: Obama Breeds Climate of Hate Against Jews

Calculated Risk: Fitch Expects Home Prices to Fall through 2nd Half of 2010

Bad science: cocaine study that got up the nose of the US | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian (new anti-science Obama administration)
Why are they trying to gag a top British science writer? | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer When chiropractors drag a top science writer into the libel courts, the country has lost its backbone
Are urban tapeworms on the rise?: Scientific American Blog
the quackometer: McTimoney Chiropractors told to take down their web sites

Eric Margolis: Getting To The Truth About World War II

Teacher Who Let Students "Vote Out" 5-Year-Old Boy with Asperger's Syndrome Gets Her Job Back - Disaboom
British Journal of Photography - All quiet on the Westminster front (classic catch-22: Brits classify site where photographers can't take pictures)

tallguywrites: Darkness
YouTube - The Whitest Kids U Know- The Never Song
15 Common Drinking Myths Debunked | Sloshspot Blog
BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft to give away anti-virus
YouTube - Lucky Channel Episode 10 - Tsundere

061209

The Associated Press: WHO: Swine flu pandemic has begun, 1st in 41 years
Darkness falls: It's the end of justice, is the end of the press, it is the end of blogs in Italy (Berlusconi goes full Mussolini)

White House Browbeats Dem Freshmen On War Money: "You'll Never Hear From Us Again" (they only want blue-dog Dems)
Steve Clemons: Can National Security Adviser James Jones Survive a Second Round of Attacks and "Longer Knives"? - "unable to animate nimble, high flex policy decision making products" (in a nutshell)
Krugman - The Big Hate - NYTimes.com
BBC NEWS | Africa | Chad man released from Guantanamo 14 years old when detained by the US in Guantanamo Bay camp has been released after seven years
Think Progress » Boehner: Republicans ‘took it in the shorts with Bush-Cheney.’
Decline and Fall: Donald Rumsfeld's Dramatic End - washingtonpost.com - Despite his reputation as a shrewd politician and skilled bureaucratic infighter (only in Fred Hiatts anencephalic head)
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect | What If Von Brunn Had Been A Muslim? (he would have been a terrorist)
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Obama defends DOMA in federal court. Says banning gay marriage is good for the federal budget. Invokes incest and marrying children.
Obama Admin Moves To Dismiss Defense Of Marriage Act Challenge
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives for Socialized Medicine
Limbaugh on Holocaust museum shooter: "This guy is a leftist if anything" | Media Matters for America (because rightwing murderers are always "leftist")
Balloon Juice : Manichean Morans - the puke funnel in action.
Failing Up | Media Matters | If you're Jeffrey Rosen, and the target of your hit-piece is Sonia Sotomayor, Time magazine invites you to write more about her.
A troubling lack of pure evil / Where to find a refreshing dose of vileness in the Age of Obama? Where to find a refreshing dose of vileness in the Age of Obama?
Enough with the Obamathon - Los Angeles Times The president is on TV more than the ShamWow guy, but I want to see a little more action.

Bondholders Face Losses From Commercial Mortgages ($62 billion of debt for U.S. offices, hotels and shopping malls) - Bloomberg.com
Calculated Risk: Option ARMs: Paying $98 a month on a $350 Thousand Mortgage
California nears financial meltdown as revenues tumble | U.S. | Reuters (Aanold terminates California)
YouTube - Kucinich Grills Ken Lewis on Fed Emails
A.I.G. Balks at Claims From US Airways Jet Ditched in Hudson - NYTimes.com
Japan Probes Report Two Seized With Undeclared Bonds (134 BILLION) - Bloomberg.com
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Billions in US bonds seized in smuggling operation
ASIA – ITALY US government securities seized from Japanese nationals, not clear whether real or fake - Asia News (U.S. government Kennedy bonds worth a billion dollars each) (yes, each)

The Discovery Institute doesn't like it when you point out their fallacies : Pharyngula
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Tiny chance' of planet collision
Open Access Publisher Accepts Nonsense Manuscript for Dollars « The Scholarly Kitchen
Editors quit after fake paper flap :The Scientist [11th June 2009]

Search Magazine — Open to Revisions - Some religious entrepreneurs have adopted an “open source” model, where rituals and doctrines can be rewritten as easily as computer code
Eli Lilly's Marketing Fraud And Ghostwriting Scandal
At least 16 previously unpublicized HIV cases in porn film performers, public health officials say
Nude, Mona Lisa-like painting surfaces - Discovery.com- msnbc.com
Why do We Get Tip of the Tongue Moments? - Neatorama
Asteroid Probe Set to "Collide" With Earth
HTC Touch Pro2 Review : Boy Genius Report
Etsy.com peddles a false feminist fantasy.
Jezebel - Slate Ladyblog Slaps The "Feminist Fantasy" Of Etsy - Slated conversations

061109


Will Republicans Admit That Their Partisan Outrage Over The DHS Report Was Misplaced? | Media Matters Action Network (are you kidding?)
DHS Report Warned Against Anti-Semitic Violence
American Medical Association Trying To Torpedo Health Care Reform Again (Socialism!)
Holocaust Museum Shooting Suspect Had History of Hate, Signs of Breaking Point white separatist
James Von Brunn: A Profile | TPMMuckraker
Shepard Smith Says His Email Is Becoming "More And More Frightening" (rightwing Obama haters)
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Deep Thought which of Ross Douthat and Megan McArdle's pre-existing policy preferences we're going to have to institute in order to appease the latest domestic terrorist?
Anti-Abortion Extremist, Hot Wings Fan, Compares Tiller's Murder To Slave Rebellion | TPMDC
Norm Coleman Ordered To Pay Al Franken $95K By Minnesota Court
Beck says "the Germans" during Hitler's rise "were an awful lot like we are now" | Media Matters for America
Senator Calls Out Frank Luntz From Senate Floor
Jonah Goldberg explains: affirmative action in college admissions is wrong -- because of slavery. | Media Matters for America (stupid+evil)
GOP Leader Rep. Eric Cantor Predicts Republican Landslide in 2010 - ABC News
Joseph A. Palermo: Glenn Beck Spins the Holocaust Museum Shooting (psychotic)

Calculated Risk: AIG New York Building Sell for Under $100 per Square Foot
Warren: Banks Returning Money Are Still Part of A Troubled Industry | Crooks and Liars
May U.S. foreclosures third highest on record | U.S. | Reuters

SPACE.com -- Military Hush-Up: Incoming Space Rocks Now Classified - Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified (could be Muslim sympathizers)
Fact or Fiction: Dogs Can Talk: Scientific American
Transform Drug Policy Foundation: Media Blog: The WHO cocaine report the US didn't want you to see (war on drugz is bogus)

Are downloads really killing the music industry? Or is it something else? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
What is Freedom (surveillance society)
Google Openly Profiles SEOs As Criminals
YouTube - Wired Editor Outwits Google with DIY Aerial Drone
WaveSecure - Track down the thief, get alerted when your mobile phone is stolen!

061009

Iraq car bomb kills at least 28 - Los Angeles Times At least 45 are wounded in the attack near Nasiriya, officials say
Could Ahmadinejad Lose? | TPM
As Iran Gets Ready to Vote, Economy Dominates - NYTimes.com
London Police Accused of Abusing Suspects - NYTimes.com

2 People Shot at U.S. Holocaust Museum - washingtonpost.com - James W. von Brunn, who is known to authorities as a white supremacist (TV is calling it the "Obama effect")
State Senator R. Creigh Deeds Beats McAuliffe in Va. Primary - NYTimes.com
Hullabaloo: digby: AP says "Clinic closing a tainted victory for abortion foes" (fucking Republican AP)
The Washington Monthly By: Hilzoy: Ross Douthat Makes No Sense (NYT's anti-aborton columnist)
Gallup Official: Less Than 0.5% Say Sarah Palin Speaks For GOP | The Plum Line (alert the media)
When Jeffrey Deskovic and Sonia Sotomayor Crossed Paths - NYTimes.com
Blue Dogs Backsliding On Anti-Health Care Reform Backsliding
Ed Whelan, 'Outer' Of Pseudonymous Law Blogger, Apologizes (Republican Bush creep)

Economic Scene - How the U.S. Surplus Became a Deficit - NYTimes.com
Homebuilders' troubles burden Harleysville Bank | Philly | 06/10/2009
Calculated Risk: Inland SoCal: House Prices at 20 Year Low
Gazprom's corporate anthem | FP Passport ("all other companies are little girls")

Supervolcano may be brewing beneath Mount St Helens - environment - 10 June 2009 - New Scientist
Wimps have rapid reaction times | COSMOS magazine

Reed College, in Need, Closes a Door to Needy Students - NYTimes.com
AnandTech: The iPhone 3GS Hardware Exposed & Analyzed
Apple iPhone 3GS: O2 Hit By Backlash Over Cost Of Upgrades And Tethering Charges | Technology | Sky News
The Smartphone’s Rapid Rise From Gadget to Tool to Necessity - NYTimes.com
Aaron Greenspan: Why Google Bothered to Appeal a $761 Small Claims Case (and Won)
Will TomTom's iPhone App Herald the End of One-Function Devices? - PC World

Tanya Gold on her hatred of wedding lists and dinner parties | Comment is free | The Guardian I am in love - and so I get consumer durables for free. I demand a new kitchen - and you will pay for it!

060909

YouTube - Iraqui Police Getting Yelled At (how the American Military works)
Military spending: Arming up | The Economist (#1: Israel; #2: U.S.)
YouTube - USS Liberty 06 08 2009

CIA Stance On Torture Tape Docs Suggests Obama's New Open Government Era Won't Materialize | TPMMuckraker
Emptywheel » Leon Panetta Kisses His Credibility Goodbye
Lieberman And Graham Threaten To Shut Down Senate Over Detainee Photos, House Dems Want Hearings (Lieberputz at work)
Solving America's hunger crisis | Sasha Abramsky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
TheHill.com - Palin beginning to irritate some Senate GOPers (and almost everybody else)
The Washington Independent » Pro-Gun Gay Groups Take Aim at Hate Crimes Bill (how they work)
Michael Ware, Marc Thiessen Debate Whether Cairo Speech "Undercut" U.S. Troops (sick)
YouTube - Conservative Misinformation University Salutes The Class Of 2009 (degrees in stupidity)
Hullabaloo: digby: Refusing to Pander (Stuart Rothenberg, total idiot)
New York - Runnin' Scared - Ross Douthat: Drop Abortion Rights and Your Doctors Will Be Allowed to Live (compromise, the NYT's way)
O'Reilly and Fox News will have more right-wing vigilantism to explain | Media Matters for America
Senate Panel to Work on Health Overhaul Next Week, Dodd Says - Bloomberg.com
More Czars Than the Romanovs | TPM Photo Features (Obamanov)

Was the TARP a Ruse? | The Big Picture - Hank Paulson engineered scam to cover up the simple fact that CitiGroup (C) was teetering on the brink of implosion
Calitics:: The $24 Billion Question

BBC NEWS | Health | Problems are solved by sleeping
In Worms, Genetic Clues to Extending Longevity - NYTimes.com

Liveability ranking: Go north... or go south | The Economist
How seriously do we take domestic terrorism? - Rob St. Amant - Open Salon (that would be Christian domestic terrorism)
YouTube - casting out a homosexual demon (even demons are gay)
Raising Godly Tomatoes (how authoritarian Christians turn their children into potted plants)
Slaughterhouse Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective - "the twentieth century's most august visual claptrap."
Op-Ed Columnist - State of Shame - NYTimes.com

Don’t Drink Hate. Boycott Rockstar lives on! | Facebook
Consumerist - Rockstar Energy Drink Doesn't Want Consumers To Know About Connection To Shock Jock Michael Savage - Rockstar (Savage-Weiner drink)
The Truth About Rockstar Energy Drink: Hate | Racism | Anti-Gay/Lesbian
Michael Savage Banned From Entering UK: Country Publishes List Of People Not Allowed
Flesh and Blood: Texas Monthly June 2009: Why did a small-town girl have her family brutally murdered?
Christian Group Files Suit to Burn Library Book | Drudge Retort
YouTube - Sex With Ducks: the Music Video by Garfunkel and Oates

060809

BBC NEWS | Business | Military spending sets new record $1,464bn (£914bn) - up 45% since 1999,
China Requires Censoring Software on New PCs - NYTimes.com - “unhealthy information”
Lakhdar Boumediene: I Was Tortured At Guantanamo
Lieberman, Graham Seek To Block Torture Photos At All Costs (Republicans doing what O wants)
North Korea Sentences U.S. Journalists to 12 Years of Hard Labor - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor - The Obama Difference - NYTimes.com

CIA urges detainee papers be kept secret - Terrorism- msnbc.com (same as the old boss)
What the new Jim Comey torture emails actually reveal - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (the fucking opposite of what the New York Times said they did)
Hullabaloo: digby: Secret Indemnity (the Obamatron just ate your democracy)
Lieberman-Graham Amendment Removed From Supplemental
Justices Tell Elected Judges Not to Rule on Major Backers - NYTimes.com ("John G. Roberts Jr. wrote a dissent" saying it's ok to buy judges)
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (Obama keeps discriminatory charade in place)
Obama owes gays an explanation for abandonment « The “D” Spot (gays can get in line behind anti-war, anti-bankster and the civil-rights abandoned) (change that isn't)
The Raw Story » Obama taps anti-abortion activist to faith-based health post just a week after the murder of prominent abortion doctor George Tiller (that's sending a message)
Daily Kos: "Third Way" on Public Option: Make One that Can't Work (this game is so rigged)
The Hole Gets Deeper for the Tainted Sen. Roland Burris - washingtonpost.com (D-Blago)
Home - Who Runs Gov - Government directory
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Expunged from history (Fred Hiatt and the WaPo at work)
Sidebar - Death Penalty Case Reveals Failings in Alabama - NYTimes.com (judges campaign on death penalty, no public defender, prison-state Amerika)

Calculated Risk: Fed Letter: "Jobless Recovery Redux?"
Ezra Klein - Has The Obama Administration's Banking Plan Failed? (what do you think?)
Paul Krugman - Gordon the Unlucky - NYTimes.com
Democrats Weigh Health Mandate as Obama Urges Taxing Wealthy - Bloomberg.com

Parents Pulling the Plugs on Williamsburg Trust-Funders - NYTimes.com “They say, ‘You want me to work eight hours?’ ”

God Or Science? A Belief In One Weakens Positive Feelings For The Other
Hullabaloo: What Is Jerry Coyne's Complaint? ("accomodation" towards christianists)
Civility and the New Atheists | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
Seeing and Believing by Jerry Coyne
Chris Mooney and Barbara Forrest love the faithful more than me « Why Evolution Is True
Tiller murderer caught « Why Evolution Is True
Civility and the New Atheists | The Intersection | Discover Magazine

SkyandTelescope.com - Homepage News - Update on Hubble Mystery Object
The Painfully Dumb Science of Republican Representative Todd Akin | Prose Before Hos So to have actually a guy who’s passed high school science is tremendously helpful
Long Bets - By 2029 no computer - or "machine intelligence" - will have passed the Turing Test (Kapor vs Kurzweil)
Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial design - Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial design

Aerial images online endanger national security, critics say - CNN.com
T-Mobile net reportedly hit by hacker/extortion attack | NetworkWorld.com Community
YouTube - 4409 -- NAZI Checkpoint Confronted - 1
YouTube - !!!! Burkah wearing teacher gets owned !!!
FORA.tv - MythBuster Adam Savage's Colossal Failures
The price of legalizing pot is too high - Los Angeles Times Deterrence is preferable to encouraging marijuana use, which would follow alcohol and tobacco in soaring costs to society (so says big corporate media)
Landmark study: DRM truly does make pirates out of us all - Ars Technica (cop 'n lawyer state America)
HDMI 1.4 Features Revealed | PhotographyBLOG
Google Wave Obliterates Everything

060709

Doing The Numbers: Obama's Window | TPMCafe ("53% say Obama is bad for Israel, and only 26% say good.")
Gawker - Why Did The Huffington Post Censor The Jewish Obama Hate Speech Video? - The Huffington Post
Pirate Party Wins and Enters The European Parliament | TorrentFreak

The Public Editor - What Happened to Skepticism? - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com (frontpage Gitmo story "seriously flawed and greatly overplayed" (no lessons learned from Iraq coverage, they denied problem for a week)
Obsidian Wings: Stay Classy Ed Whelan (Ed Whelan is a douchebag)
Obsidian Wings: Thanks All
The Washington Monthly - Class Act, All The Way
TBogg » M. Edward Whelan III of The Ethics and Public Policy Center is an asshole
Think Progress » Gingrich: Americans ‘surrounded by paganism.’ (witches!)

Op-Ed Contributors - The Economy Is Still at the Brink - NYTimes.com - Sandy B. Lewis and William D. Cohan - "Mr. Obama thinks that the way to revive the economy is to restore confidence in it" (it=shipwreck)
Pa. may turn down $273 million in stimulus aid | Philly | 06/07/2009 (and screw their residents - business at work)
Bank Accused of Pushing Mortgage Deals on Blacks - NYTimes.com

Oldest known pottery found in China - Los Angeles Times approximately 18,000 years old

Daily Kos: Book review: Fred Kaplan's "1959" by SusanG
Exploration of the Moon: Soviet Lunik moon probes: 1959


060609

YouTube - Feeling the Hate In Jerusalem on Eve of Obama's Cairo Address
Labour suffers wipeout in its worst local election results - Times Online
Obama D-Day Speech: Full Text
BBC NEWS | Americas | Lost plane 'sent 24 error alerts'
Mexico day care fire kills 31 children
Semi-Submarines, Stealthily Plying Pacific, Arrive as a Way to Smuggle Cocaine - washingtonpost.com - "You try finding a floating log in the middle of the Pacific," one DEA agent said. (31% of drug traffic by sub)
Since When is Demanding a Settlement Freeze ‘Hardline?’ | Tikun Olam (since any criticism of Israel is anti-semitic)
It's Only Make-Believe: Bush Policy on Israeli Settlement Freeze Was An 'Understanding' | Crooks and Liars (that Israel is the boss)

Obama: 'Time To Deliver' On Health Care (single-payer is "off the table")
How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option, And What Obama and the Rest of Us Must Do | Robert Reich's Blog
Emptywheel » All the News NYT Does Not See Fit to Print
The NYT's nice, new euphemism for torture - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - intense interrogations (Another chapter in the banality of evil + Liane Hansen of NicePoliteRepubicanTorturers)
NPR Check ("NPR is one of the worst offenders of using obfuscating language to white-wash (torture)")
Bill Moyers Journal: Michael Winship: The Privatization of Obama's War
Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS (privitization of war in Afganistan: now the military/corporate/media empire is seamless)
Arianna Huffington: When Will Dick Cheney's Tower of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down on Him? Cheney's ongoing Forget Everything I Ever Told You Tour
U.S. May Permit 9/11 Guilty Pleas in Capital Cases - NYTimes.com (avoid trials, that makes sense)
YouTube - Keith Olbermann: 'FOX News Incited Dr. Tiller's Murder' (take hate-monger O'Reilly off the air)
Firedoglake » Dr. Tiller, FACE, and the Failure of the Bush DOJ to Enforce the Law
Sotomayor's apparently interchangeable WOC identity - Feministing (white men at work)
National Journal Magazine - Congressional Insiders Poll
Charles Blow - Pot, Meet Kettle - NYTimes.com (Rethugs and Sotomayor: two words: shameful and defeatist.
< br /> Daily Kos: State of the Nation (Republicans want personal trains so they won't have to ride with "those" people)
Sadly, No! » One Slice Of Humble Pie, Sir, Topped With P-Whip? (demented)
Mich. Shutting 3 Prisons, 5 Camps to Save Money - NYTimes.com (prison-state America getting expensive)

Countrywide exec often warned about mortgage risks | Reuters
The Lear Jet repo man | Salon News
To Get a Systemic Risk Regulator Fire Bernanke | TPMCafe

The libellous Simon Singh article on chiropractors « gimpy’s blog (criticsm of non-scientific ideas outlawed in the UK)
Health insurers want you to keep smoking, Harvard doctors say : Scientific American Blog
Evolution, religion, schizophrenia and the schizotypal personality - Boing Boing
Why is the Earth moving away from the sun? - space - 01 June 2009 - New Scientist

Carradine's Family: We Want The FBI Involved Carradine may have engaged in a dangerous form of sex play known as auto-erotic asphyxiation

The Associated Press: Ads pulled over radio hosts' transgender remarks
6th-grader takes loaded gun to school in Penn Hills
Travel Posters - a set on Flickr - Boston Public Library
YouTube - Amazing Choir uses hands to simulate storm
YouTube - Anti Pornography Conference, Rexburg, Idaho ("a device in your home with the destructive power of a bomb")
How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race
YouTube - Hammer Pants Dance (HD)

060509

Big Brother HAS gone too far ... and that's an ex-spy chief talking -- Signs of the Times News
Galilee communities: We're not racist, we just don't want Arabs - Haaretz - Israel News (racist failed state)
Mondoweiss: Max Blumenthal: Feeling the Hate In Jerusalem on Eve of Obama's Cairo Address (racist Jews in Israel)
The pictures vetoed by Berlusconi · ELPAÍS.com
Somali Cruises - Cruise along Africa's east coast! - It's like a safari, only better ("bring your 'High powered weapons' along on the cruise. If you don't have weapons of your own, you can rent them on the boat." +Most cruises offer a mini-bar - We offer a mounted Mini-Gun)

Walter Ken Myers, State Department Employee, Arrested By FBI Officials
DHS Nominee Philip Mudd Drops Out Over Ties To CIA Interrogation Tactics
Are House Democrats about to block Obama's new secrecy law? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (probably not)
Hillary Clinton demands China investigate and disclose its past abuses - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (supreme irony +transparency you can't see through)
NYT: We Made Big Mistakes On Front-Page Gitmo Story, But We Did Not Get Spun | TPMMuckraker
Bay Buchanan: After Assaulting Black Woman, Calling Her 'Nigger,' Epstein Was 'Lynched' | TPMDC (the lynchers get lynched)
Kucinich Secures Good Government Victory | AfterDowningStreet.org (few and far between)
Matthew Yglesias » The Gingrich Universe (media=Republican)
Sotomayor's finances look a lot like the average person's | McClatchy (the media's definition of "average")
Firedoglake » Dana Milbank’s 750 Word Quota and the Future of Progressive Activism (that's some elite wanking)
Patients Pay Tribute to a Murdered Doctor - Motherlode Blog - NYTimes.com
Suspect in abortion provider death talks from jail "being treated as a criminal" even though he hasn't been convicted (waterboard the fucker)
GOP Senator, Conservative Pundits Claim Obama's Cairo Speech Anti-American (video: Foxaganda and Hannity edit clips to reverse meaning)
TBogg » I drink your milquetoast - National Journal's resident douchebag Stuart Taylor
Associated Baptist Press - African-American pastor says SBC leaders should repudiate Drake - Southern Baptist Convention officer that he is praying for President Obama to die.
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect | The "Tribal Justice" Of Sotomayor's Critics (Stuart Taylor, white man, and Pat Buchanan, Tom Ashbrook's favorite guest)
MSNBC Shrugs About Liz Cheney’s Over-Exposure: “Liz Is A Great Guest” | The Plum Line (Rethuglican Corporate Media)

Green shoots? Feh. Here's truly terrifying data about the real state of the U.S. economy. - By Eliot Spitzer - Slate Magazine
Bank of America Ousts Head of Risk Oversight - NYTimes.com (banksters: take the money and run)
Now the NY Times tells us: "[A]cademic studies" undermine cramdown critics | Media Matters for America (NYT witheld important research: your corporate news-managers at work)
Job Losses at 345,000, Less Than Forecast; 9.4% Rate - CNBC.com (U6 at 16%)
Calculated Risk: NY Fed President on PPIP (not working out so well)
Bank Profits From Accounting Rules Masking Looming Loan Losses - Bloomberg.com
Benefit spending soars to new high - usatoday.com

Life at the Edge: Why are the Planet's Coral Reefs Dying?
Sense About Science | BCA v Singh The Story So Far 3 June 2009 (can't call claims "bogus" if they have no evidence in Britain)
childalert - Measles: A dangerous illness by Roald Dahl
Visualizing Desire (Brian Knutson, Stanford University) | Psychoanalyst.tv
Pepper 2009 - The stolen dog that changed American science. - Slate Magazine
New Technique Extracts Water From Air Humidity Using Renewable Energy

Ruling allowing Taser use to get DNA may be nation’s first : Home: The Buffalo News
Milwaukie shooting ruled suicide by cop | KATU.com - Portland, Oregon | Although a man was shot by police and died from a bullet wound to the chest, the state medical examiner has ruled his death a suicide because he had cut his own wrists.
I Am Here: One Man's Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle

Recipe - Crisp Chicken Schnitzel With Lemony Spring Herb Salad - NYTimes.com
Allergic to "grilled cheese" - Love Letters - Relationships questions
charlatantric. - Aesthetics
YouTube - "Sexting" Epidemic - Parents Investigate Teens Sending Racy/Nude Texts & E-mails (ZOMG)
Consumerist - Jansen Medical Does Not Appreciate You Having Questions, Goodbye - Jansen medical (Jeff Jansen, total asshole)
Google Code Blog: Introducing Page Speed
Google Squared
Birdsong Radio, Live Dawn Chorus Bird Song Station, Birdsong DAB Station
E309: Scribblenauts DS settles Kraken vs. God vs. Keyboard Cat debate | Offworld
NeoGAF - "Keyboard Cat!" Scribblenauts Preview/Impressions Thread

060409

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Encyclopedia on Concentration Camps - washingtonpost.com Decade-Long Study by Holocaust Museum Scholars Could Alter Public Understanding ("a complex ecology of coordinated devastation")
'We're launching a campaign against anti-Semitic Obama' - Haaretz - Israel News - Jew Hater (what they do)

Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he'll abide by the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision and sign the certificate | Crooks and Liars (decided against secession)
Obama Cairo Speech (VIDEO): Calls For New Beginning, Gets Standing Ovation
EU Guantanamo Breakthrough: Europe Expects To Take 'Several Dozen' Detainees

Medical bills underlie 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies: study | U.S. | Reuters
Magazine Preview - Taking the Hill - NYTimes.com (health-care reform that leaves everything the way it was)
Rush Limbaugh On Obama, Al-Qaeda And The Race To "Demolish America" (rightwing hate-machine)
Sen. Graham Admits That Opposing Sotomayor Puts Party Over Country | Media Matters A
E.J. Dionne Jr. - Rush and Newt Are Winning - washingtonpost.com - deep and largely unconscious conservative bias in the media's discussion of policy
Hullabaloo: digby: Bias (digby gets to the root of the "problem" with women judges)

Jobless Claims Drops as Productivity Shows Surprise Gain - CNBC.com
Dick Cheney: George W. Bush passed buck on GM - Andy Barr - politico.com
naked capitalism: MLEC Version 3.0, aka PPIP Legacy Loan Program, Officially Dead on Arrival
Ezra Klein - Geithner's Plan Is Dead
Is the recession causing a baby bust? - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com (recession in babies tracked Baltic Dry Index)

Patenting human genes thwarts research, scientists say - Kansas City Star The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patents to at least 4,382 human genes, including genes related to Alzheimer's, asthma, cancer, muscular dystrophy and other serious diseases.
The drugs do work – for a lot of people | Society | guardian.co.uk
Gizmodo - Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month - Stem Cells
Revealed: the bid to corner world's bluefin tuna market - Nature, Environment - The Independent Mitsubishi freezing fish to sell later as stock numbers plummet toward extinction
Fast food hamburgers: what are we really eating? (PDF)
Optimum Population Trust
How animals laugh - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Kung Fu star Carradine found dead a cord around his neck and other parts of his body.
Monticello, MN beats the phone company; Internet a "utility" - Ars Technica
The ten best conspiracy theories - New Articles - The Independent
Air France Crash Raises Questions About Domain Name Registration (Updated) | Threat Level | Wired.com
Shewee - Portable Urinating Device For Women

060309

Obama: I Wanted To "Come To The Place Where Islam Began"

UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire - Same-sex marriage becomes law in NH, Jun. 3, 2009
Poll: Half Of Americans Think Torture Sometimes Justified (good PR)
Raw Story » Poll: 65 pct. of Americans against closing Gitmo (Christian Nation)
Barack Obama Teams Up With Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham To Suppress Torture Photos | Prose Before Hos | So This Is What Transparency Tastes Like!
Tillman's mother says general lied again about his death - CNN.com
Operation Rescue adviser helped Tiller suspect track doctor's court dates | McClatchy (OR=terrorist organization, contributors should be jailed for 65 years)
Daily Kos: Bush Made 77 Trips to Crawford TX at $226,072 a Pop (hypocrisy, thy name is Republican)
Political Affairs Magazine - Bush Told Journalist in 1999 “I’m Going to Invade Iraq”
Gingrich Takes Back Sotomayor "Racism" Comment (the face of the Repthugican party of liars)
Slain abortion doctor: ‘They need me’ - Crime & courts- msnbc.com
Morning Joe journos can't name a successful unionized company, even though one signs their paychecks | Media Matters for America (how out of touch are our elite millionaire journos + mika is an idiot)
Hoffa: Sorkin and Morning Joe Show Complete Failure To Understand | TPMDC (brilliant reporter-minds at work)

For Some Homeowners, Promised Help Proves Elusive - NYTimes.com
Return to a Barter Economy | Mint.com Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice

Air France 447 - AFR447 - A detailed meteorological analysis - Satellite and weather data
Music a 'mega-vitamin' for the brain - CNN.com
Science-Based Medicine » The Oprah-fication of medicine
BBC - Today - A new kind of cloud?
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People

Hunks get more sex, but there's a price to pay - life - 03 June 2009 - New Scientist
Will daily sex cure a low libido? - Times Online
Thomas lawyer: court must ban all MediaSentry evidence - Ars Technica (why they never went after Harvard students)
YouTube - Penn Says: Calling Atheists Less Than Human
Homosexuality violates God's law - Kingsport Times-News Online (+comments)

Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition Processor Review - HotHardware
Commons:Picture of the Year/2008 - Wikimedia Commons
New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org - top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets (+men don't listen to women +men comprise 45% of Twitter users, while women represent 55%)
Twitter is dominated by males. Quick: What does that mean? » VentureBeat (men talk more than women +57 percent of Twitter users are men)
The Social Media Gender Gap: while both sexes still use social networking sites in huge numbers, women are the ones holding down the fort (women more profitable +no married men; they are transactional and on Linkedin)
Twitter Biased to Men: 140-Character Limit Favors Men of Few Words: Hypothesis: Gabby men of few words are taking Twitter down!
The Last Word: Men Talk as Much as Women | LiveScience
Study: Young adults haven't warmed up to Twitter | The Social - CNET News
Tweets of Hate: The Crazy Right Twitters About the Assassination of Dr Tiller. | Carnal San Francisco
On the Creepy Alluring Art of the Follow Shot (cinematography)
Marilyn Monroe - Marilyn: Never-Published Photos - Life

060209

Twitter blocked in China (flickr, Youtube, Live, Bing)
BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Home Secretary Smith to step down (petite fascista)
DAWN.COM | World | India 'unhappy' over Hafiz Saeed release
Israel East Jerusalem Expansion Angers US Officials (push, push)

Cheney Says There Was No Iraq Link to 9/11 Attacks - Bloomberg.com
Daily Kos: UNBELIEVABLE - Cheney finally admits he lied us into war! (no consequences)
John McHugh, GOP Congressman, Obama's Pick For Army Secretary (more bi-partisan crap)
Slate's Saletan plays with fire | Media Matters for America (abortion is "icky" and must be prevented)
Activist urges anti-abortion leaders not to flinch after abortion doctor's death -- chicagotribune.com Terry says Tiller was "a mass murderer and horrifically, he reaped what he sowed."
Gov. Gregoire signs legislation to expand rights to domestic partners
Leahy: "Unbelievable" Sotomayor Attacks Demand Earlier Hearing (video)
Leader Of Conservative Opposition To Sotomayor Was Nailed For Hacking And Spying On Senate Dems | The Plum Line
Matthew Yglesias » Pat Buchanan Mocks Sotomayor for Learning English (Tom Ashbrook's bff)
AP: tech coming to stop "wholesale theft" on 'Net - Ars Technica (going after Google for indexing their stories)

RForeclosures - No End in Sight - NYTimes.com - There will be no recovery until there is a halt in the relentless rise in foreclosures (and that's why Senate Dems defeated cram-down)
Investment Ratings Tank for Home Loan Banks — Sunlight Foundation's Real Time Investigations - Tracking Private Influences on Public Policy
Officially Official: General Motors reaches tentative agreement to sell Hummer

Were our earliest hominid ancestors European? - life - 01 June 2009 - New Scientist
Reboot Your Brain? Science Says It's Possible -A Galaxy Insight
Synthetic Fibers to Reverse Blindness: Discovery News
Earth Losing Atmosphere Faster than Mars: Discovery News
Carbon Capture Can't Make Coal Clean | Environment | AlterNet
Electronic Evolution: Research Show Robots Forming Human-like Societies

Technology Review: No Reboot Required (KSplice)
Google Is Top Tracker of Surfers in Study - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (tracker=spy)

Two Pints of Non-Alcoholic Lager and a Packet of Fat-Free Crisps: How pointless regulations are ruining British pub life - Reason Magazine
Thou shalt not steal baby Jesus - Latest News - Kentucky.com
Oversharers

060109

'Earth 2100': the Final Century of Civilization? - ABC News Planet at Risk: Experts Warn Population Growth, Resource Depletion, Climate Change Could Bring Catastrophe in Next Century
BBC NEWS | Americas | French plane lost in ocean storm
Netanyahu: Obama Call For Settlement Freeze "Unreasonable"
China Suspends North Korea Exchanges, Yonhap Report - Bloomberg.com
The Washington Monthly: Kristol's Plan For Korea (neocons love bombs)
Boy chosen by Dalai Lama as reincarnation of spiritual leader turns back on Buddhist order | World news | The Guardian

Why'd Obama switch on detainee photos? Maliki went ballistic | McClatchy
Jimmy Carter: Obama Wrong To Block Detainee Photos ("most of his supporters were hoping that he would be much more open in the revelation of what we've done in the past.")(transparency you can't see through)
Jack Hidary: General Rick Sanchez Calls for War Crimes Truth Commission
Cheney: Death only option for some detainees if Gitmo closed | CommonDreams.org (what Jack Bauer would do)
Minnesota Supremes Grill Coleman Lawyer On Lack Of Evidence | TPMDC
GOP Dominated By White Conservatives: Gallup Poll (stunning revelation)
GOP Senators OK With Race-Based Sotomayor Attacks (there you go)
The Associated Press: AG orders protection in wake of doctor slaying
George Tiller Murder Prompts Second Look At Scandalized DHS Report "right wing extremists."
Tucker Carlson calls comparison of Dr. Tiller to Nazis and al-Qaida "objectively true" | Media Matters for America (white racist pundit squad)
Booman Tribune ~ Some Thoughts on Dr. Tiller
Ezra Klein - How Should Congress Respond to George Tiller's Murder?
NYT Edits "Sharp Tongue" Sotomayor Headline
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Double Standards (Stuart Taylor digs himself deeper)
NYT's Frank Bruni complains that he didn't have fun on Obama's date night | Media Matters for America (Times assigned him to Gore in 2000)
State pay cut likely; how it's done is the question - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to cut state pay 5 percent,
Bouphonia: Immense Good Will ("Most people would prefer a hot climate")
Meacham: Guns, Liquor and the Age of Obama | Newsweek Nation | Newsweek.com Pro-gun sentiment in America is rising, not falling. Firearms sales are up, and there are reports of ammunition shortag
Test Your News IQ - Pew Research Center

Op-Ed Columnist - Reagan Did It - NYTimes.com
White House: Krugman's Bailout Critiques "Not Entirely Convincing"
Michael Moore: Goodbye, GM ("planned obsolescence")
GM-dependent Tennessee town left to uncertain fate - CNN.com (one-company town)
Seven reasons GM is headed to bankruptcy - USATODAY.com
GM, Citigroup Replaced in Dow by Cisco, Travelers - Bloomberg.com

Wiping Out The World's Mass Migrations: First Analysis Of The Effect Of Habit Changes On Migrating Grazers (yes, we're totally fucking up the planet)
Love’s Labors and Costs § Seedmagazine.Com
The Space Review: Review: Einstein’s Telescope (dark mater)
Technology Review: Gene Defect Corrected in Human Stem Cells New research outlines a path toward new therapies with induced pluripotent stem cells.
New device detects heart disease using less than one drop of blood New tool described in the FASEB Journal may help physicians monitor heart disease and help scientists grow new vascular tissue for transplants
Scientists Imagine Evolution On ExoPlanets -A Galaxy Insight
Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Injected Into Skeletal Muscle Can Repair Heart Tissue

Texas blogger jailed after failing to turn PC over to judge - Ars Technica
Spot the difference, Saudi style | The Observers
The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal - The New York Times (1995)
School Lunch From Around the World
YouTube - Baraka Meets the Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Taking Jokes By Duchamp To Another Level of Art - The New York Times
Suzanne's Blog | Newsweek Attack - Huh? The Truth About Bioidentical Hormones vs. Synthetic
Estrogen Makes the Brain a Sex Organ/Brainstorms October 1997
Estrogen also a potential neurotransmitter ( According to a Johns Hopkins University...)

Go Bing Yourself, Right Now
Nielsen Hugely Underestimates BitTorrent Traffic | TorrentFreak
Tweeting Too Hard
Twitter's first scientific study needs you! - science-in-society - 01 June 2009 - New Scientist
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability
Identity Theft Protection Tips | Protect Yourself, Protect Your Family, Protect Your Identity
Yahoo! shuts! failed! social! networking! site!! • The Register
Badda-Bing Indeed.

Johann Hari: Why should I respect these oppressive religions? - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
CP Examples: 40 Examples of Christian Privilege
Christian Privilege: Breaking a Sacred Taboo by Lewis Z. Schlosser (PDF)
slacktivist: The Sick Bastard Rate (# 62 percent of white evangelical Protestants said torture of a suspect could be often or sometimes justified)
Torture poll shakes up evangelicals - Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca (Christians aren't)