January 30, 2009

* Bailed out executives behaving like "welfare queens"
* Judge won't delay tribunal of waterboarded defendant
* Bill Clinton & Vladimir Putin raise glasses of vodka
* About half of CO2 emissions remain in our atmosphere
* I missed news of Masanobu Fukuoka's passing in August

* Saddam-Qaeda conspiracy theorist advising DoD on Iraq
* Serotonin uptake inhibitor would keep locusts passive
* Congressional Research Service: domestic intelligence
* DHS wants jailed illegal aliens deported upon release
* Farmers natural selection determines livestock colors

* Iceland's prime minister Sigurdardottir is a lesbian

* Pope recently rehabilitated ultraconservative society
* Metropolitan Kirill newest Russian Orthodox patriarch
* Shimon Peres waves finger at Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan
* Tikrit Shoe Monument removed day after being unveiled
* Bush wanted continueing executive privilege for aides