Tuesday's melancholy?

Hello, especially to you Indiana and North Carolina. We are counting on you to knock Hill out.



Press here if you've read so much stuff online that you're drifting away from a common worldview with friends and family (self.reddit.com)

Waterboarding uncle Sam. [Pic] (bartcop.com)

Indiana "a whopping 1,134,427 voter registrations have been cancelled" [politics] (democraticunderground.com)

Momentum: Obama has picked up more than six times the number of supers Clinton has since super tuesday (88 to 13) [politics] (firstread.msnbc.msn.com)

US Tops the List for Human Rights Violations [worldnews] (yourthreecents.com)

Cheney:"when the history is written, it'll be said that we lived in a safer country, and a more hopeful world, because George Bush was President of these United States" (businesswire.com)

Look who voted against a bill prohibiting the confiscation of firearms during emergency (senate.gov)

Clinton In 2005: 'I Agree With McCain' On Long-Term Iraq Presence [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

By the late 1920s, America's elite had found a way to defuse the dual threat of stagnating economic growth and a radicalized working class in what one consultant called "the gospel of consumption" [business] (orionmagazine.org)

Think Big Oil doesn't own the US Government? [politics] (nytimes.com)

Democrats Prepare Sell-Out on Telecom Immunity: House Leaders to Give White House a Blank Check to Spy on Americans [politics] (inteldaily.com)

South Africa lifts 13-year ban on elephant killing. Poachers Encouraged. [technology] (ap.google.com)

230 Economists, Including 4 Nobel Prize Winners, Sign a Statement Blasting Clinton and McCain Gas Tax Plan [obama] (blog.washingtonpost.com)

For decades the federal government has been developing a highly classified plan that would override the Constitution in the event of a terrorist attack [politics] (informationclearinghouse.info)

Investment Banking Will Cause The Great Depression of the 2010s [business] (kitco.com)

OptiSolar Plans on Erecting Largest Solar Farm in the World [environment] (goodcleantech.com)

The human genome is mapped - time to figure out the "Diseasome" [cool interactive graphic] [science] (nytimes.com)

More than 80 percent of the world’s population depends on rice as a staple food [environment] (sciencedaily.com)

Americans are giving their pay raises to the health care system ... it's only insurance until you actually need it, then .. poof! [politics] (nytimes.com)

Pay Monsanto or Starve - prepare to get very angry [environment] (celsias.com)

BROOD XIII: Facts about the billions of periodical cicadas now emerging from underground [science] (news.nationalgeographic.com)

Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not cut crime, says police chief. (timesonline.co.uk)

Before Moving to Europe (transitionsabroad.com)

The superhydrophobic properties of rose petals [science] (arstechnica.com)

The Price of Intelligence and why more animals aren't smarter [science] (nytimes.com)

Let your light shine on me…Spiders "talk" to potential mates using a type of light humans can’t see. [science] (news.bbc.co.uk)

World Of Waste: America's Mass Consumption In Images [pics] (huffingtonpost.com)

Bacteria Eating Uranium [img] [pics] (eyeofscience.com)

LSD and Hofmann - A Psychedelic 'Problem Child' Comes Full Circle [science] (nytimes.com)

Crazy ways people are spending their stimulus checks [business] (howispentmystimulus.com)

104+ hypermiling tips for people looking to save gas and money [environment] (ecomodder.com)