BITS for the Week of December 18 - 22

• The Rep. Virgil Goode (Muslim-hater) fiasco has received a lot of press and opinions, but Juan Cole says it best.
• This is bizarre. Here is the recently-censored-by-the-Bush-Administration NY Times piece, showing the blacked-out sections and all.
• Black eye for Canada: illegal waste exportation (c'mon you Canadians, we in the U.S. look up to your higher standards)
• Fat bugs and.... Shrinking houses
• Look out, Barack Obama is secretly plotting to destroy America
• Ever the inventive society, Americans using new torture techniques
• The Bush-war EPA is now restricting data access and destroying documents. I mean, WTF?!
• Will environmental scientists save us from ourselves?
• Not content enough destroying the U.S. Army in Iraq, Bush-war now setting up the U.S. Navy for action against Iran
• Redirecting the impeachment process
• The threat above us
• Hey, all you soldiers in Iraq: I'll bet you didn't know that increasing the troop levels isn't a hard thing to do
• Bush-war Administration flexes its censorship muscles
• Time Magazine just lost all credence by selecting YOU as Person-of-the-Year. Controversial, yes. Stupid, also yes.
• Howard Zinn on why cutting and running from Iraq is inevitable (audio)