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Ted Haggard, he of the escapades with male escorts fame, is now back in the pulpit. I love a good comeback, but ... http://www.latimes.com/news... #p2
Easily the most impressive TED talk I've seen, by Pranav Mistry. The technology he's built is insane. http://www.ted.com/talks... (via @johnrobb)
Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman: "a genius of literary incompetence." Brilliant. http://www.nypress.com/article... (via @ninanyc)
A new report questions "suicides" at Guantanamo - http://www.salon.com/opinion...
Great cartogram of AIDS data from around the world. Sadly but unsurprisingly, Africa really stands out. http://flowingdata.com/2009... (@flowingdata)
How ridiculous has Glenn Beck become? Even his fellow conservative Mormons are disowning him: http://www.mormontimes.com/people_.... (in @MormonTimes) #p2
Good photo essay on Afghanistan in the Times, by Moises Saman. Photo #16 says it all. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
shloky rt @shloky rt @joshuafoust: Chapati Mystery: "I am too tired even to complain" about Seth Jones' shoddy work. http://www.chapatimystery.com/archive...
Ha'aretz says U.S. officials face 'pro-Israel' background check - http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts...
1 in 4 kids in the US is now on foodstamps. Tragic. And much more telling than any official unemployment figure. http://www.nytimes.com/2009... #p2
Great post on climate change and civil war, by Chris Blattman. Apparently there's strong evidence the two are linked. http://chrisblattman.com/2009...
Climate change and civil war - http://chrisblattman.com/2009...
The hidden costs of the Afghan escalation - http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts...
Best read this AM: 'How Robber Barons hijacked the Victorian Internet.' Love the old school quotes. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... (by @matthewlassar)
Didn't realize he was on the interwebs. But Bruce Lawrence has a piece up at RD on the massacre in Mindanao last week. http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive...
So apparently Somali pirates are running their own stock exchange - http://www.reuters.com/article.... How long before Goldman floats an IPO on it?
Most Senators “Have Fingers in the Wind” on Bernanke - http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009...
"But history’s bigger than any of us. Last night it made Obama look helpless." About sums up Obama's speech, I think. http://mondoweiss.net/2009...
Domestic Inertia and Foreign Policy - http://fpwatch.blogspot.com/2009...
Walt's chart says it all. rt @avinunu Walt responds to Friedman: How many Muslims has US killed? http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts... (via @TwiddleEastNews)
"Who will create a FairTrade for media?" Interesting way to think about the real crisis facing journalism. http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque... (by @umairh)
The End of Reporters’ Attention Monopoly - http://timothyblee.com/?p=1754
Leslie Gelb on "Amateur Hour at the White House." Definitely disagree, but worth reading given Gelb's audience & reach. http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...
@daveweigel definitely geithner. public officials are much more dangerous when they're too captured by their beliefs to know they're lying.
Not good: Joblessness for 16-24 yo black men hits Great Depression levels -- 34.5% http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... (via @matttbastard / @facingsouth)
And I thought Fox News was bad. Ahmed Rashid has a BBC column on the mess that is, apparently, the Pakistani press. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Does the internet bring more freedom, or more repression? Brian Appleyard has an interesting take: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol... (via @evgenymorozov)
@TiagoDF thanks for the Rashid piece
Matt Taibbi is fast becoming the best of our generation. Just read his latest on Palin. Amazing. http://trueslant.com/matttai... (via @jayrosen_nyu)
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