Monday, May 10, 2010

News links

Today's interests:


Oil spill solutions uncertain, slick spreads west | Reuters
"We've brought the world's experts together to try to help us understand how do we make these successful," Suttles said on NBC's "Today" show. "I can't tell you if any one of them will work but as long as we have options we're going to keep trying. The goal here has to be to get the flow stopped."

Post-Constitutional American: an update
Succinct and to the point - a list of the liberties we've lost. Although I'd like to know what some of the sources for the information is.

Obama should stop pandering to Wall Street and support three critical banking reforms
I am surprised that these reforms haven't been adopted already. I guess it just shows how much influence Wall Street has.

Since oil spill disaster, Obama administration has given 27 waivers to oil companies in gulf
I am starting to become extremely upset with Obama.

Mouse Grimace Scale Created to Help Identify Pain in Humans and Animals

I'm a little upset with this. They say they're doing this in part to help improve the welfare of lab animals, but they don't mention they're hurting animals in this study. It's been proven that stem cells and humans are better to experiment on because whatever the test is for, will most likely be used on humans, not animals. So why test on animals if side-effects can be completely different for humans.

Hizballah, Israel Prepare for a War that Neither Wants
And why are they fighting?? Because of religion.

The Philippines' Maguindanao Massacre: Facing the Legacy
This is the first I've heard about this. I am aghast.

Hidden Motives
An interesting look at polls

Some Really Scary Sex
Sex is natural. It's okay, I promise.

For my geekiness and Kyle's benefit





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