Weekend remainders

Here are all of the topics I didn't have time to comment on:

A Wisconsin hospital has class. They called a nurse out of surgery to let her know she had been laid off.

From earlier in the week I apparently used a bad link on the torture story. Here's a new one and, just in case, here's the direct Youtube of it.

If you're a political geek you'll like this story on the winners and losers during the first 100 days of the Obama Administration.
Speaking of political losers, I can't believe I missed this quote. The guy above is running the Republicans charge to take back the House of Representatives. He said that in order to reach more young people "we have to do in the Facebook."

Goldman Sachs hires a law firm to shut down a blogger they don't like. Apparently their lawyers haven't read the first amendment.

End the university as we know it. It's an interesting read although some some of his ideas are off the reservation, I do agree there has to be reform on dissertations and tenure. Dissertations have become more and more trivial in subject matter and all of us have had teachers/professors who should have stopped teaching long ago abut still hung on thanks to tenure.

Chelsea Clinton is getting married to the grandson of an Iowa congressman.

Marines provide safe circumcisions for locals in the Phillipines. Before you decry wasteful government spending, read how it is done when the marines are NOT there.

The University of Kansas Geography department has mapped the US by frequency of the seven deadly sins. I hope it makes more sense to you than it did me.

Imagine you fall behind in your payments and your creditors start sending harassing messages to your child's myspace account or even create your-name.com as a website to publicly proclaim you are behind on your bills.

In case you hadn't heard, climate change is still going strong. Here's a look at earth circa 2100 and another view. And this very bad news that the main culprit that coal is more to blame for global warming than all of the oil out there. That's bad because the US is the Saudi Arabia of coal and we get half of our electricity from it. Since it's a bad idea, they have now found a way to make gas from coal.