Doubleplusundead - Give Obama a break
Instapundit - A swine flue update - this is actually a little scary. I hope the CDC is keeping close track
Flopping Aces - South Park does Somali Pirates
Demure Thoughts - Jen is currently infatuated with Coupling - I have watched a couple episodes and didn't really find it that funny, but that's probably me. My sense of humor runs to the absurd sometimes.
The Other McCain - Rule 5 Sunday - Woo Hoo
Other Stuff:
Times of India - Apparently throwing shoes at politicians is now all the rage - Everyone thank George Bush without him we wouldn't have this new sport.
MSNBC - Liz Cheney on Enhanced Interrogations - I don't know why she isn't more prominent in the GOP but she needs to be.
CNN - Second 100 Days is real test for Obama
Fox News - Pakistan Launches New Offensive Against Militants - "ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani military launched an operation against militants Sunday in a district covered by a peace deal between the government and the insurgents, further casting doubt on that pact's survival."
NY Times - With Kindle, Can You Tell It’s Proust? - "But to other writers and editors, the Kindle is the ultimate bad idea whose time has come. Anne Fadiman, the author, was relieved to learn that her essay collection, “Ex Libris,” was not available on Kindle. “It would really be ironic if it were,” she said of the book, which evokes her abiding passion for books as objects.
“There’s a little box on Amazon that reads ‘Tell the publisher I’d like to read this book on Kindle,’ ” she said. “I hope no one tells the publisher.” (...) “I always notice how many books there are on the bookshelves, and what the books are,” said Ammon Shea, who spent a year reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary and published a book about it. “It’s the faux-intellectual version of sniffing through someone’s medicine cabinet.” I have to admit just out of spite I went to Amazon and selected tell the publisher I'd like to read this book on Kindle for Ex-Libris. F***in' snob.
Obama Chides Colleges to Curb Spiraling Tuition - and Washington state colleges and universities are listening. In response they are only raising tuition 14% a year for the next two years and raising the sales taxes instead of letting tuition spiral out of control
Wired - Instructions for the post apocalypse - "Called the Georgia Guidestones, the monument is a mystery—nobody knows exactly who commissioned it or why. The only clues to its origin are on a nearby plaque on the ground—which gives the dimensions and explains a series of intricate notches and holes that correspond to the movements of the sun and stars—and the "guides" themselves, directives carved into the rocks. These instructions appear in eight languages ranging from English to Swahili and reflect a peculiar New Age ideology. Some are vaguely eugenic (guide reproduction wisely—improving fitness and diversity); others prescribe standard-issue hippie mysticism (prize truth—beauty—love—seeking harmony with the infinite).
What's most widely agreed upon—based on the evidence available—is that the Guidestones are meant to instruct the dazed survivors of some impending apocalypse as they attempt to reconstitute civilization."
Yahoo - WHO tries to come up with Swine Flu plan -
White House to detail government response to Swine Flu
In GOP base a rebellion brewing - "A quick tour through the week’s headlines suggests the Republican Party is beginning to come to terms with the last election and that consensus is emerging among GOP elites that the party needs to move away from discordant social issues. (...) But outside Washington, the reality is very different. Rank-and-file Republicans remain, by all indications, staunchly conservative, and they appear to have no desire to moderate their views. GOP activists and operatives say they hear intense anger at the White House and at the party’s own leaders on familiar issues – taxes, homosexuality, and immigration. Within the party, conservative groups have grown stronger absent the emergence of any organized moderate faction.
There is little appetite for compromise on what many see as core issues, and the road to the presidential nomination lies – as always – through a series of states where the conservative base holds sway, and where the anger appears to be, if anything, particularly intense."
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