VIA: Tuesday, December 9

Six thousand years ago, a mother and two children died at the same time and were buried here holding hands. Someone obviously cared a great deal, as the scientist found that flowers were placed above and below the bodies. It is not yet known how they died. - Green Sahara - The Big Picture - Boston.com

• "When a ghost shows up, you don't ignore him because you don't like the clothes he's wearing." Sippican Cottage: Delmer's A Haunt, Still

• Ze Varmink up ub der Globe:Ecomyths explains it all to you:

  Warming is evidence of global warming. Cooling does not mean that global warming is not happening, just that it hasn't yet...but it might, still..and then the theory will be right again...except if its not, and then it will be because something has temporarily interfered with the theory working, like cooling, but that doesn't mean the cooling has replaced the warming -- its just hiding it, for now. We know this because the models tell us. Can't be anything else happening like the sun, the oceans or any of that stuff. Why? Well, because that's why.

• Who says there's no good news? Your daily digest of newspaper extinction news

  
  

• Arianna Huffington, Depression Pornographer: ""She gets free writers. You get therapy. Readers get Depression Porn. How can Tina Brown ever compete?" -- Dynamist Blog: Depression Lust, and Depression Porn

• Yo, Zimbabwe, how's that "self-rule" thing working out? "It is urgent for Zimbabwe's neighbours that the regime now be toppled, lest this rogue state implode and become a source of instability and suffering throughout the region. British troops should not be at the forefront of an intervention; but they should be made available if there is a request from the African Union." --A Duty to Intervene -London Times Online Warmongers!

And now, a newsbreak!

OK, newsbreak's over. Back on your heads!

• He should know. Bill Keller: "There's a real shortage of the kind of information that I would call quality journalism."'N.Y. Times' Editor: Good Journalism Is Not Cheap : NPR

• "Shut up about the birth certificate." Puh-leeze! Obama Derangement Syndrome by David Horowitz

• Starts with a Bang asks and answers: How far could Superman hit a baseball?

• The Forgotten Media Man "Obama is creating jobs for people with transferable skills – meaning he's totally ignoring the media! What about the unemployed folks fresh from lifestyle magazines and gossip blogs?"

• Food Chain: Groceries: How Did We Get Here? plus Supermarkets: Too Much Diversity? Both from The Antiplanner.

• Happy Birthday, Mouse: A Ubiquitous Piece of Technology Turns 40 VIA Britannica Blog

• Thomas Sowell : The Meaning of Mumbai "Once suicidal fanatics have nuclear bombs, that is the point of no return. We, our children and our grandchildren will live at the mercy of the merciless, who have a track record of sadism."

• Assisted Suicide: Coming to a State Near You | The Doctor Is In "The idea of assisted suicide has enormous allure in a culture of self-gratification and increasingly-shallow moral and ethical principles. Don’t be surprised when it comes your way — be prepared."

• The Strata-Sphere: Hundreds Need Not Die To Force Pakistan Into Action "There needs to be immediate and overpowering action to destroy the camps and enclaves of these butchers before they have a chance to kill again."

• Contemporary art. Not just crap but a bubble of crap: 'A second tulip mania' by Ben Lewis

Meanwhile, six thousand years later: Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims moved around the Kaaba, the black cube at center, inside the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday. (Hassan Ammar/Associated Press) -Photo Journal : Pictures of the Day

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