BITS for the Week of March 26 - March 30

• If you've wondered how hybrid cars work, check out this series of well-written and illustrated articles.
• Check out this new blog, Common Sense, which claims that it "...offers news and progressive insight essential to making government work for the American people..."
• Oh, that Senator John McCain... He's such a comedian
• Safe drinking water for Iraqis: More fiction than fact
• Life as we know it is ending
• The Bush-war administration has lowered minimum standards not only for military recruits, but apparently also for the recruiters
• Negative language leads to confusion and a poor image (PDF doc)