- Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets Monday to demand the release of a reporter who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush, as Arabs across many parts of the Middle East hailed the journalist as a hero and praised his insult as a proper send-off to the unpopular U.S. president. His shoes? Mark Morford thinks we can do better.
- Oh and, ohmygawd, Morford's got 11 things you can buy for christmas that'll make your life a bit weirder. This one is really cool.
- Just can't get enough of Sarah Palin news. Here's a really interesting article about the mother of Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah's grandchild.
- Can You Believe This Crap Department: Dick Cheney's lawyers are asserting that the vice president alone has the authority to determine which records, if any, from his tenure will be handed over to the National Archives when he leaves office in January.
- Barak Obama has chosen Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration. Aside from Warren being an "open homophobe who aggressively works to wound gay people in this country (as well as pretty much anybody else who doesn’t believe with his own particular and peculiar recently-invented version of Christian theology)," we really don't care. Much. Thom Hartman comments.
- Al Franken is ahead. Go Al!
- In September 2005, roughly a week after Hurricane Katrina ripped into the Gulf Coast, a group of New Orleans police officers discovered the burned shell of a car sitting on an earthen levee overlooking the bloated Mississippi River. Inside the scorched sedan, scattered across the back seat, lay black ashes and bones. Human bones. A charred skull, shards of rib, an arm bone, clumps of roasted flesh. What's going on here?
- Bernard Madoff. Brilliant investor? Crook? Paul Krugman asks "How different, really, is Mr. Madoff’s tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?"
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