Links for you. Science:
Corner piece
Palm Oil Plantations Equal Deforestation
Elephants give each other a helping trunk
What Killed Europe's Hyenas?
High (school) honors
Other:
Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America' (Good for Klein. I'm so sick of this self-righteous heartland bullshit)
Ross Douthat sells sex and young people way too short
Dogg Days
Our Serious Intellectuals
We're doomed!
Responsible Retirement
Late Night: Rich People are Oppressed
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Nevada Democratic Senator and Senate Leader Harry Reid apparently stepped in it:
The US Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, has apologised for private comments he made about Barack Obama before the 2008 presidential election.
Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog, and an excellente planne for a worke of grete literarye merit, including:
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." -Abraham Lincoln
Contraceptives really changed society radically. Prior to them literature is full of references to people being too poor to get married. Because getting married was the same thing as having children.
Thank you, Mike. I suspect the retirement problem is one of those things that's too big to get anyone to address, but at least when we crash, I can sell a book on my status as prophet and help keep the economy going. :p
Thanks for the links. I loves me some sweet linkage.