* There has been modest progress on fighting the Colorado fires. They went from less than 1% containment to about 30% today mostly thanks to the weather breaking. *fingers crossed for continued progress tomorrow and that there be no more loss of life ( Read more... )

* "Landays: Poetry of Afghan Women:" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/media/landays.htmlRead more... )

* Fobok was kind enough to send me links rounding up various Canadian political scandals going on. I was so swamped this week it took a while to give them the proper attention. Here they are in case you are curious what else is going on besides the crack scandal ( Read more... )

* 81% of Americans agree with Obama that hedge fund managers should pay a tax rate as high or higher than a teacher or a sectary. Boehner was out again calling any attempt to tax the rich the way we tax the middle class as "class warfare" against the rich. I say, letting them pay a much lower rate is class warfare by the rich against anyone else ( Read more... )