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links: lots of crazy
* Georgia Senate votes to dismantle US government. Slipped into a bill -- but the article says the resolution has passed in other states.
* Obama admin finally coughs up Bush torture memos. I'm told they make for unpleasant reading.
* War on Pubert continues: Fifth graders could face charges for viewing and showing porn on school computer
* George Will complains about denom denim. Not sure if he's being ironic.
* Gays being killed in Iraq
* The dark side of Dubai. What's a little slavery among expatriates? Dubai's media law
* Child marriage in Saudi Arabia
* Texas secession bill
* Barbary Corsairs Wikipedia. Interesting reading -- corsairs raiding Ireland and Iceland, controlling the Alps for a while, France conquering Algeria in large part to shut the pirates down.
* Texas lawmaker suggests Asians adopt easier names.
* American social mobility or lack thereof (PDF)
* An Atlantic article on a financial coup. I haven't really read it.
* Financial sector wages, deregulation, and inequality
* The Aral Desert
* Warren says he never supported Prop 8, evangelicals dismayed and confused. I think it's clear he did -- but why is he saying he didn't?
* Johann Hari on the Somali pirates, and how Somalia's been exploited
* Clarence Thomas complains about too many rights
* Gephardt says we should go slow on health care reform. Gephardt has become a corporate lobbyist. Connected?
* Illinois GOP: shoot tax increasers
* HIV denialism
* I discovered earlier that lead is now the last stable element. I'd thought polonium was the first radioactive element (after technetium and promethium) but apparently in 2003 bismuth-209 was found to be radioactive, with a half life of 1.9e19 years. This was predicted ahead of time, a triumph of nuclear chemistry.
* Charts of the nuclides. I was surprised to see that most atomic masses have only a single stable element, and none more than two.
* Joan Vinge letter, on her health, writing, and connections between her Heaven's Belt and Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought.
* Japan and Ethiopia
* Obama admin finally coughs up Bush torture memos. I'm told they make for unpleasant reading.
* War on Pubert continues: Fifth graders could face charges for viewing and showing porn on school computer
* George Will complains about denom denim. Not sure if he's being ironic.
* Gays being killed in Iraq
* The dark side of Dubai. What's a little slavery among expatriates? Dubai's media law
* Child marriage in Saudi Arabia
* Texas secession bill
* Barbary Corsairs Wikipedia. Interesting reading -- corsairs raiding Ireland and Iceland, controlling the Alps for a while, France conquering Algeria in large part to shut the pirates down.
* Texas lawmaker suggests Asians adopt easier names.
* American social mobility or lack thereof (PDF)
* An Atlantic article on a financial coup. I haven't really read it.
* Financial sector wages, deregulation, and inequality
* The Aral Desert
* Warren says he never supported Prop 8, evangelicals dismayed and confused. I think it's clear he did -- but why is he saying he didn't?
* Johann Hari on the Somali pirates, and how Somalia's been exploited
* Clarence Thomas complains about too many rights
* Gephardt says we should go slow on health care reform. Gephardt has become a corporate lobbyist. Connected?
* Illinois GOP: shoot tax increasers
* HIV denialism
* I discovered earlier that lead is now the last stable element. I'd thought polonium was the first radioactive element (after technetium and promethium) but apparently in 2003 bismuth-209 was found to be radioactive, with a half life of 1.9e19 years. This was predicted ahead of time, a triumph of nuclear chemistry.
* Charts of the nuclides. I was surprised to see that most atomic masses have only a single stable element, and none more than two.
* Joan Vinge letter, on her health, writing, and connections between her Heaven's Belt and Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought.
* Japan and Ethiopia