Monday is back

Hello, and we are back on track. Life has picked up the pieces after derailing and we are now on one of those new fancy monorail type trains that run on magnetic tracks, hovering over the tracks and gliding smoothly to a new destination.


3000+ Armed police surround monestary, monks beaten and arrested. Burma? No, Tibet (timesonline.co.uk)

Obama should.. cancel his gay bash tour, and do it now [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Alberto Gonzales May Face Criminal Charges [politics] (alternet.org)

Bush v. Clinton impeachment poll chart [politics] (truthout.org)

41 million Americans can't make ends meet. (marketwatch.com)

Who Owns You Americans [politics] (liveleak.com)

"We are the humans in a dangerous and unnatural experiment in the United States, and I think it's unconscionable," [science] (cnn.com)

Congressional Oversight Commitee: Evidence of Tax Evasion by Blackwater USA [politics] (oversight.house.gov)

You are reading these words right now because 600 million years ago, an aquatic animal called a Hydra developed light-receptive genes—the origin of animal vision. [science] (livescience.com)

Duke refuses to stop watering artificial turf field even though the region is experiencing the worst drought in its history and only has 69 days left in the water supply. (newsobserver.com)

Researchers Knock Out HIV (sciencedaily.com)

Bush threatens that Iran's mere knowledge of how to build a nuke justifies an attack [politics] (foxattacks.com)

Why Clinton II Wouldn't Offer Much Change From Bush II... [politics] (reason.com)

Want to save the planet? Don't change your lightbulbs; change your leaders. (nytimes.com)

Top 10 Environmental Blogs: a detailed analysis [science] (environmentalgraffiti.com)

How do we manage to remember smells despite the fact that each olfactory sensory neuron only survives for about 60 days and is then replaced by a new cell? [science] (sciam.com)

Just so we're straight,.. It is now OK for the U.S. to kidnap Canadians, send them to Syria and torture them for years if we THINK they are terrorists. [politics] (whitehouser.com)

Scientists Race to Detect First Gravitational Waves [science] (wired.com)

Antimatter: mirror of the Universe [science] (livefromcern.web.cern.ch)

The Best Explanation of the Credit Crisis So Far. (youtube.com)

Aristotle on the Phony Religiocity of Tyrants (harpers.org)

I Was a Hacker for the MPAA (wired.com)

You Are What You Grow (nytimes.com)