I have bronchitis again! Lucky me!

I have been in bed for three days.

Since I am too weak to entertain you personally, you will have to make do with external links, like this one about thousands of rubber ducks and other bath toys that have been circling the world for 15 years after a crate of them fell off an ocean ship and broke open.

http://www.tamponcrafts.com/gun.html

The url says it all...

This post on Google at Salon.com makes me sick to my stomach. After a Google employee offered to help the health care industry counter Michael Moore's new movie, Sicko, the employee clarified that what she really meant was ( Read more... )

French wine-growers go guerrilla

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

(Stolen from Eugene.)

The Chicago Reader blogged about the new Dean of Medill and the coup d'etat that put him in power...

This guy is so funny. He claims to be a "reasonable conservative" blogger. My favorite entry is a (kind of old) compilation of his amazon.com reviews, all of which start "I have not actually read this book but..."

Excerpts:

Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism by Sean HannityI have not actually read this book but I ( Read more... )

There's a fascinating interview with Rupert Murdoch on salon.com (yes, I'm linking to them again; are you sick of it yet?) about his decision to make his company carbon neutral and focused on the issue of climate change (after being convinced by his son of its importance ( Read more... )

Grabbed from ywong:
The answer is NOT always C.

A very funny strategy on how to save America from pornography without banning it outright... raise the minimum age of participation to 65