More Odds and Ends

This has been a bad week for the neocons. Their anger is hilarious. Here's the news...

The President unveiled his mortage crisis bailout plan, and as usual, it's a huge mess.

Middle-class tax relief and higher fuel-efficiency standards? Republicans will stop that shit.

The military's Stretch Armstrong policy soldiers on just a little longer: "The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday that 15-month combat tours are too long for U.S. soldiers but probably cannot be shortened until next fall as troop levels decline."

The Supreme Court tackled another Guantanamo case on detainee rights this week.

Another blow for fundamentalist sex ed: "In a troubling reversal, the nation's teen birth rate rose for the first time in 15 years, surprising government health officials and reviving the bitter debate about abstinence-only sex education." But condoms are, like, so evil.

We got a little snow here up north, but in the South... there's still a serious drought/water crisis. And down in the other hemisphere, the rainforests continue to be decimated.

Meanwhile, Australia's new Prime Minister keeps his promise and ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.

Ben Wallace-Wells has written an article for Rolling Stone entitled 'How America Lost the War on Drugs'. It's creating quite a buzz, pardon the pun.

Finally, did Morgan Spurlock find Osama bin Laden? Find out at Sundance!