Weekday Bits

• The case against buying a beachhouse
• Great "Crashing The Gate" video.
• Nothing but a first class job by Sen. Russ Feingold in finally and succinctly getting a part of the evolving Democratic message out to the public forum. I think it was a boost to the party. (video)
• Cuba Demands America Return Guantanamo Bay
• "I want these motherf**king snakes off the motherf**king plane!"
• Avian flu pandemic may not happen after all
• Hurricane forcast for 2006
• Occupation update: Fallujah still broken, and Samarra now under seige
• The Daily Scribble: may it rest in peace.
• Progressive California Assemblyman Marco Firebaugh, 1966-2006
• In this interesting interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt explains his company's recent behavior, including the tussle over Chinese censorship
• About those daily vitamin supplements you take: you'd better think twice
• Here's Bush-war's press conference transcript from today (Tuesday). Read it and weep.
• Pioneer of political behavior research dies
• "Mission Accomplished?" Absolutely!
• Neocons continue legacy of disenfranchisement of poor voters
• Juan Cole summarizes the Top Ten Catastrophes of the Third Year of American Iraq
• Secular Arab takes muslim extremists to the woodshed (video)
• THREE YEARS OF WAR IN IRAQ: A TIMELINE
• Really, you shouldn't play your PlayStation 2 while driving a bus
• More proof: global warming---> rising sea temperatures---> increasing storm intensities