links

* Article on how the US drug war has met none of its goals
* The moral life of babies
* Science of fungus infections and why they're hard to treat.

* Right-wing rage about a Lebanese-American winning Miss USA
* Healthcare reform used to attack abortion

* Krugman: IMF misinformation, system problems with the euro; Baltic devastation due to austerity policies; libetarianism and the oil spill (and Ezra on real oil costs); the coming deflation; "Republicans are coming out to oppose US participation in a bailout of Greece — which is interesting, given that nobody is asking us to participate"; we aren't Greece. GOP extremism (the eviction of Bob Bennett); euro and wages needing to fall

* Ezra Klein: John McCain's follies; fight on Senate secret holds; Greece as the new France for conservative moralizing.

* (2007) Orange County cop who got away with sexual abuse

* Why American 20-somethings can't get ahead
* Cellphones, poverty, and development

* Worldwide Haruhi dance