Friday isn't the weekend anymore

fools leave too soon. built to fill roles and fall standing alone again distant and dissatisfied. these four years and how we say goodbye to these four years. it's a long goodbye with mixed emotions. just fragments of another life. well i'm not dead...yet (but the regrets are killing me).

Death special: How does it feel to die (in different ways -- like beheading, drowning, etc.) (newscientist.com)

Stand-off between pro-torture CIA chief and anti-torture CIA Inspector General to be refereed by notorious Bush crony. (tpmmuckraker.com)


Most American political activists keep their money at banks financing the activities they protest. But don't try pointing that out to them as you'll get nothing but a blank stare. (commonground.ca)

Shelling out: the origins of money (szabo.best.vwh.net)

Unprecedented: CIA Chief Launches Probe Of CIA Watchdog - AP Watchdog Was Investigating Detention, Interrogation Programs (nytimes.com)

Washington Post to Paul: "Are you too angry to be president"; Paul: "I certainly don't want to come across angry ... although I do get pretty annoyed when I see blatant abuse of the rule of law and blatant ignoring of the Constitution and that is annoying because I see the republic fading away" (newsandpolicy.com)

First US Soldiers On Scene Say Blackwater Fired On Fleeing Iraqis (washingtonpost.com)

Audience disgusted by Lynn Cheney on the Daily Show (reuters.com)

Americans Don't Believe in the American Dream. ( More and more working Americans are realizing that the game is rigged against them.) (alternet.org)

The United States is working on a multi-billion-dollar plan to depopulate vast swaths of coastline along the Gulf of Mexico (guardian.co.uk)

Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize (nobelprize.org)

You can kill a cop if he's trying to arrest you without justification: U.S. Supreme Court (caselaw.lp.findlaw.com)

The city of Atlanta has 121 days worth of water in it's reservoirs. There is no alternative plan in place to supply residents with water when they dry up. (wsbtv.com)

Insanely cool interactive periodic table. (dayah.com)

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 -- the scariest list in recent memory (fwweekly.com)

Banks Earned $19 Billion From Overdraft Fees This Year (consumerist.com)

Jenna Bush: "It's Not Even A Practical Question" To Ask Why I'm Not In Iraq (huffingtonpost.com)

Conservative National Review (generally hostile to Paul's candidacy): "I attended and spoke at the Second Amendment Foundation’s annual Gun Rights Policy Conference ...What I saw and heard there changed my mind about the viability of Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy, Paul is going to far outperform the expectations laid out for him" (newsandpolicy.com)

Human behavior linked to spontaneous brain activity (arstechnica.com)

Jimmy Carter calls Cheney a "disaster" for U.S (reuters.com)

What can animal can survive being boiled, frozen and even in space...it's a water bear of course. [PICS] (darkroastedblend.com)

M65 Recoiless Nuclear Rifle. Yes, the NUCLEAR rifle, it is real. (Youtube video) (youtube.com)

The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World (cracked.com)

Fucking brilliant article on the linguistic perspective of swearing (tnr.com)

Yet another massive frozen beef recall, yet the story doesn't appear on the front page of any major news source. I guess when China's not involved nobody cares about tainted food. (foxnews.com)

The Truth About Hunter S. Thompson (cnn.com)

A Meditation On Sitting In A White Room And What It All Means. (avanoo.wordpress.com)

Do Modern Women Want a Beta Male? (women.timesonline.co.uk)

In people with low-self esteem, rejection triggers a 'fight or flight response' (scientistlive.com)