* Israelis detain former Georgia Congresswoman McKinney
* Palin decided to resign before finishing elected term
* Christianist politicians giving responsibility toGod
* Can't make omelet without setting fire to the kitchen
* Cold War planes relied on high degree of invisibility
* Former Vice Presidential candidate can't stand the heat
* US Brigadier General shops for produce at Afghan bazaar
* Banks should be utilities, not entrepreneurial ventures
* Hawking says humans have entered new stage of evolution
* 2009Rainbow Gathering at Parque Venado in New Mexico
* Clothingoptional at Rising Sun Farm in Wisconsin
* 33 big pictures of 2009 Glastonbury rock festival
* Animals appear to have "innate sense of fairness"
* Fire affects Fisher Plaza data center in Seattle
* World's fifty best restaurants [via David Byrne]
* Washington Postflier places price on access to editors
* San Diego Sheriffs raid Democratic campaign house party
* Missing soldier not part of US offensive in Afghanistan
* Contractors dispose medical waste in open air burn pits
* Cherubic lawmaker: "Hunger can be a positive motivator"
* First major sign that the "caps lock" key will shrink
* Wikipedia censored for 7 months to protect journalist
* Canadian minister saysISP's cannot require a warrant
* Creation Museum paleontologist monument to illiteracy
* Most people bankrupted by medical bills had insurance
* US General hands Iraqi official the "key to the city"
* Senators Schumer & Graham want to punishNokia/Siemens
* Al Frankenexpects to be seated shortly after July 4th
* Republican leaders lament fewer Whitehouse invitations
* Garbage Warrior: "feels like I'm in a herd of buffalo"
* Champions of "family values" seek more sex partners
* Pantheon of sanctimonious conservative US hypocrites
* Republican: media biasgreater threat than terrorism
* How do FedEx and UPS survivegovernment competition?
* Just 14% of homes getting credit card solicitations
* Melancholy in Tehran; apolitical residents in shock
* Honduran military remove President before referendum
* WHINSEC graduate Romeo Vasquezled the Honduran coup
* "The moment one gives close attention to anything.."
* Brazil defeats US in Confederations Cup soccerfinal
* US soccerupsets Euro champion Spain; faces Brazil
* Brenston's Rocket 88 perhaps first Rock Song [via]
* Wycliffe Bibleinspired pre-Reformation "Lollardy"
* Sierra Club map of 221 coal fired US power plants
* Video: Krishnamurti speaking on "death" at age 91
* Obama declines Ahmadinejad demand for US apology
* Middle school strip search ruled unconstitutional
* FBI's secretargument for constitutionality of gag
* Pirate Bay retrial denied, judge declared unbiased
* Just two isuues of Wyndham Lewis' magazine The Tyro
* Hawking: asteroids explain lack of intelligent life
* The future of Earth could rest on Al Franken's vote
* Megachurches are structured like well-run companies
* Series on man-madedisaster capitalism at cryptome
* TheNizamrefusedto join either India or Pakistan
* "Neda" means "voice", "calling", or "Divine Message"
* Hamas foiled plot to assassinate Jimmy Carterin Gaza
* Kyrgyzstan accepts new terms to host US transit center
* 2 of 11 British players advance to Wimbledon2nd round
* 40,000 year old bird-bone flute had five finger holes
* US military abruptly blocks data on incoming meteors
* Minn. court upholds city's right to build own network
* Sarkozy makes case against "burka" in terms of dignity
* Substantial support for government role in health care
* Scarborough: McCain and Graham "outrageous", "stunning"
* Scottish "Black Watch" in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
* Peter Sellers based the voiceofStrangeloveonWeegee
* Reconnaissance Orbiter has unambiguous evidence of H2O
* Israel plans to sieze "Water Reservoir Hill" "outpost"
* Nokia Siemenssold Internet censorship system to Iran
* Last digit of Iranian candidates vote countsnot random
* Obama is asked about Iran in interview for Pakistani TV
* 16 year old Neda shot and killed in Tehran; nsfw video
* Iranian demonstrators forced from the streets Saturday
* US fully prepared for North Korea launch toward Hawaii
* CIA delays 2nd less redacted release of torture report
* DOJ can't release Cheney records because of comedynews
* Fox Newsonce proud of it's exclusive White House access
* Many recent US victims of E coli ate Nestle Cookie Dough
* David Letterman gains viewers and enemies after June 8th
* Israeli border cops video humiliation, file under comedy
* Belgian aid workers document Peruvian crackdown June 5th
* Australia may take legal action to stop Japanese whaling
* Study of evolutionaryconsequences of same-sex behaviour
* India's Jantar Mantar astronomical complex built in 1728
* Bo Obama's official portraittoday on the White House lawn
* Obama nominates Open Source advocate to head patent office
* Mousavi & Karrubi rejectKhamenei offer of partial recount
* Mousavi speaks briefly in public; calls for self restraint
* Basij militias raided numerous universities, beat students
* Daily Show's Jason Jonesin Iran just before the election
* Chicago Democratic Convention "Riot Cops Reunion" June 26
* 1 in 3 Americans can't afford to comply with prescriptions
* Violence in Mexico caused by drug prohibition, not US guns
* Government security policies "evolved in an ad hoc manner"
* Cuban exiles propaganda about Oswaldbefore assassination
* SCOTUS rules 5-4 that convicts have no right to DNA tests
* Twice this week GOP activists apologized for racisthumor
* US Senate apology for slavery doesn't address reparations
* 90 year old J.D. Salinger seeks "destruction" of new book
* Demeter's depression ended with sight ofBaubo's genitals
* Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to improve atlas of the Moon
* DVDLes Miserables [1998] "ransomed from fear and hatred"
* About 300 Germans protest planned Internet "Berlin Wall"
* Indian leader urges activists to lift blockades in Peru
* Half dozen loons at "Fire David Letterman" rally: video
* Video explanation of Maglev tchnology uses scale models
* New sport: German men play soccer in bowling shoes on ice
* New US agency to assume consumer protectionduty from Fed
* Lawmakers don't understand technicalities of NSA programs
* US Digital TV era beginswithout "broadcast flag" mandate
* Unfaithful Sen. Ensign voted to impeach President Clinton
* Iran's national soccer team removes greenbetween periods
* Iran has large educated middle class, philosophers, poets
* Badly photoshopped picture of Tehran pro-government rally
* Report: Iranian IT administrator Mohammad Asgari has died
* Mousavi asks for day of mourning tomorrow - donning black
* McCaindemands CIA Director retract comment about Cheney
* 2008: McCain aide said terror attack would be "advantage"
* AdultererEnsign called Clinton infidelity "embarrassing"
* Brief Q&A with Eliot Spitzer in Central Park over hotdogs
* Bush advisor Harriet Miersdeposedby Judiciary Committee
* Iranian dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Montazerispeaks
* Iranians stormBasij pro-government militia headquarters
* Palinaccepts Letterman apology on behalf of young women
* German Internet censorshiplawtargets child pornography
* 1950's, 60's UK military research on LSD as incapacitant
* NAACP: Rusty DePass yet to apologize for gorilla comment
* Obama to extend benefits to gay federal employee spouses
* Federal Reserve "government agency" to gain "new powers"
* DVDSpeed Racer season one [1967] "Mach GoGoGo" in Japan
* The Pirate Bay beta testing an encrypted private network
* Mousaviaddresses supporters from back of a 4X4 vehicle
* Forty large pictures of protestors and police in Tehran
* US Defense Dept. says protests are "low level terrorism"
* Proposed "Pass-ID" drops controversial parts of Real-ID
* Obama'sremarks at American Medical Association meeting
* Report: $134 billion in US Bonds siezed at Italian border
* CIA Director: almost as if Cheney wishes for attack on US
* Judge allows civil suit vs John Yoo over claim of torture
* Police take equipment from ABC, NBC news bureaus in Tehran
* Ahmadinejad's surreal answer to Christiane Amanpour: Video
* Nate Silverconveys Iranian election results by province
* Iranians chase policeman away from reporter during report
* Twitter micro-blogging service survivesTehran censorship
* Bush requested $400 million last year to destabilize Iran
* MP3Heavenly Waters The Decline of British Sea Power 2003
* Netanyahu speech to add "condition" for Palestinian state
* DHS forbade Senator from disclosing locations of coal ash
* Quite a fuss over recent DHS report on domestic extremism
* DVDAmerica: Freedom to Fascism2006; Income tax is fraud
* Former IRS AgentJoe Banisterdebatingincome tax in 2004
* Fleet Foxes lead singer on the benefits of filesharing
* Fox & Friends discuss liberation of Uighursfrom Gitmo
* 317,450 calls to digital TV conversion helpline Friday
* David Reiff edited his mother Susan Sontag's journals
* Greece: loan of Elgin Marbles would legalize UK theft
* Erik von Brunn describes Dad's action as "cowardice"
* SCOTUS may strike down part of the Voting Rights Act
* Judge laments sentence for cannabis dispensary owner
* 17 Senators voted against FDA regulation of tobacco
* Film: DMTThe Spirit Molecule N,N-dimethyltryptamine
* Fox News anchor Shep Smith: "they warned us for a reason"
* Doctors Association backtracks opposition to public plan
* DVDI Heart Huckabees [2004] Hollywood loves coincidence
* John Wayne died of cancer from upwind nuclear test site
* Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill to be debated by Congress
June 11, 2009
* Reports this month of tadpoles falling over coastal Japan
* Before 1846, medical doctors insistedpain was necessary
* Senator offers regional coop alternative to public option
* Fiat buys Chrysler; not liable for safety of existing cars
* Nokia developes phone to harvest power from radio spectrum
* DVDNaked Lunch [1991] "exterminate all rational thought"
* Halliburton use mandatory arbitration for rape accusation
* Sotomayor confirmation scheduleequal to that for Roberts
* Gay, black, Harvard grad, and decorated vet Anthony Woods
* Comcast intercepts and redirects traffic on Port 53 [DNS]
* Envoy George Mitchell meets withIsraeli President Peres
* Getting out of West Bank necessary to survival of Israel
* R. Crumb's "Book of Genesis" excerpted in The New Yorker
* Congressman tells China not to trust Obama adminstration
* House GOP leader: Democrats "plan to import terrorists"
* Newt Gingrich to Rush Limbaugh: "Obama already failed"
* Jon Voight: "bring an end to this false prophet Obama"
* Clinton: Israeli agreements very clear about settlements
* Colbert gets haircut in front of troops at Camp Victory
* Young US tourist clung toGhan train outback for hours
* Roger Federer's 14th Grand Slam win ties Pete Sampras
* Podcast panel discussionof the life of Emma Goldman
* Laura Bushbacks Sonia Sotomayor, references gender
* Bernie Sanders: Health Care a right not a privilege
* Public Option will be too efficient for competition
* Futurological Congress: medicationreplacesreality
* Dispensary owner Charlie Lynch sentencing June 11th
* Tehran in gridlock; urbane youth oppose Ahmadinejad
* Frank Zappaplayedbicycles on the Steve Allen Show
* My pictures of the Omaha Beach Cemetery [May 2007]
* Analysis of Israelipoll data in response to US policy
* Healthinsurance industry ruse to dodge "Public Option"
* US Congressional Budget Office rules on "Public Option"
* Heather Graham began practicingTantric healing in 2002
* Sweden's Pirate Partywinsseatin European parliament
* Ahmadinejad a "propaganda goldmine" for neoconservatives
* Roedercomplains about cold jail, warns of more violence
* Wall Street "making a fortune cleaning up mess they made"
* No identity check in Sweden for name changeapplications
* Flowering plants dominate their naked-seeded "forebears"
* eBay opium addict's confessions include tea preparation
* Dhamma Brothers US deep south prison Vipassanaretreats
* HD video as orbit of Japanese lunar probe Kaguya decays
* Planes over 200 miles from land are not tracked by radar
* B of A, Verizon, Carls Jr pullads from Sacramento's KRXQ
* Grammy Awards eliminate category for the Best Polka Album
* Literal religious belief linked to evolutionary advantage
* Naill Ferguson & Paul Krugman feud over T Bill rate spike
* Bill O'Reilly apologizes to CNN after Rick Sanchez report
* Moses Pendleton dance company Momix's new show "Botanica"
* Video [below]: Rick Steves in Iran: complete [56 minutes]
* Judge: reasonable to tase suspect who refused 2nd DNA test
* Databaseof "free market" toxins in personal care products
* Southern Baptist citesPsalms in asking God to bring death
* 2nd N. American location with evidence of Vikingstructure
* I sat in an Orgone accumulator for about 15 minutes today
* Cirque du Soleil founder to visit Int'l Space Station
* Unpublished street level pic of Tank Man pre-standoff
* Arab crowd honors Obama with nickname of "Abu Hussein"
* How to "disagree with Obama in a knowledgable manner"
* Bank Association "would rather see the marketworking"
* Sirens blared across Israel yesterday for "doomsday drill"
* Israel's largest newspaper headlines "The American Threat"
* President Obama thanks the Saudi King inArabic [Shukran]
* Rising interest in European classical music in West Bank
* China successful at erasing records of Tiananmen protest
* Four photographers remember the "tank man" of Tiananmen
* "Home" documentary film byEarth From Above photographer
* Astronomical Unit: distance to sun increases 15cm / year
* DNSSEC would affix cryptographic seal to all DNS lookups
* Large increase in health care cost related bankruptcies
* Defacto head of GOP compares Sotomayor to head of KKK
* Obama in surprise meeting with Israeli defense minister
* Students in China respond to Geithner with loud laughter
* China blocks top websites for Tiananmen 20th anniversary
* Jack Nicholson would replace a disinterested Bill Murray
* Nearly half of Knesset backs Jordan as "Palestinian State"
* Senator agrees with Sotomayor: appeals courts make policy
* 130 GOP legislators back GAO audit of the Federal Reserve
* Minn. Supreme Court hears attorneys for Franken, Coleman
* Photographs of seventy African royal families [1988-91]
* Netanyahuflummoxed: "what the hell do they want from me?"
* Levin saw CIA docs Cheney would release; don't prove squat
* DHS pilot program to fingerprint travellers leaving the US
* Eurozone inflation rate now zero; negative rates expected
* Canadian copyright watchdog withdraws plagiarized report
* Wikipedia court votes 10-0 to ban Church of Scientology
* Israeli govt bluntly rejects call to freeze settlements
* Figurative archipelago imposed on Palestinians by Israel
* Maleness and whiteness are not "personal" - but universal
* Strong culture ofanonymity among Japanese Internet users
* US and UK may lose AAA credit rating after rescueing banks
* Chinese bloggerwins lawsuit vs ISP using terms of service
* Anti-bullfight demonstrators strip down to black underwear
* O'Brien is Leno's guest Friday, starts Tonight ShowMonday
* The primary emotions of life also have a rational function
* SCOTUS: cops may start questioning without lawyer present
* Ex Guantanamo detainee lives in Paris; describes struggle
* Mancow tells his friendHannity "waterboarding is torture"
* Mancowinterviewed by Keith Olbermann after $10k donation
* Robert Gates: alarm over GTMO closure is fear mongering
* Swat Valley "bloody intersection" secured by Pakistanis
* Netanyahu defying Obama's request for settlement freeze
* Forbes Magazine: socialist democracy produces happiness
* Growing divide among US Republicans plays out in public
* Due to bridge closure, I took the detour to Victoria
* Biden already leading tours of "undisclosedlocation"
* Facebook closes accounts with names seeming anonymous
* In Juneau Alaska, the relative sea level is receeding
* Parkour for girls is one of the best things I've seen
* Peace with Palestinains will help in addressing Iran
* Panetta statement says less than people are claiming
* New York Supreme Court rules against warrantless GPS
* Satellite view of Bilderberg meeting place in Greece
* Hisreputation is expanding faster than the universe
* Aung San Suu Kyiaccused of hosting distance swimmer
* Moroccan campaign against Shiites; hundreds detained
* Wimbledon grass center court debuts retractable roof
* House of Commons fees office colluded in MP expenses
* Honda Hybrid was top selling car in Japan last month
* Obamaaddressesabortion at Catholic commencement
* US Chief Justicebacks prosecution in major cases
* Complaint seeks disbarment of twelve Bush lawyers
* Pics of 37,000 mile yacht race arriving in Boston
* New New York Times lens blogofvisual journalisn
* CIA provides reason for denying Cheney request
* CIA will neither confirm nor deny Pelosi charge
* Boy Scouts train with plastic guns at the border
* Gene patents delay, limit, and shut down research
* Envoy tells Netanyahu: Obama doesn't want surprise