Midweek Bits

• Wasting-taxpayers'-money story of the week
• A history of depleted uranium in Iraq
• Bush-war now credited with the deaths of 250,000 Iraqis. Congratulations, cowboy!
• Charles Demers doesn't like Jon Stewart
• Diagnosing Bird Flu in one hour using micro chips
• ARRRRRR! Go Ahead and Die! (HMO animated video)
• Changing our policies to support the ecosystem and our future
• Check out this new blog, Echo Chamber, which sponsor AlterNet claims is "Amplifying the best of the left".
• If you sign up for only one daily newsletter, make it The Progress Report
• The theft of New Orleans is now underway