Weekend Update - May 16th

• Mark Morford has a little talk with teenagers. "Let us tell you something right now: the world is packed like a sack of rusty tacks with cares, most of them horrible and dark and thick with shame. Here is what you must learn, before it's too late: Sex is not meant to be fun and titillating and happy and easy and fun and young and easy and fun. Understand?"


• Remember back in 2004 when some of us said "If Bush gets re-elected I'm moving to Canada?" Just a few months into Barack Obama's presidency, it's the conservatives who are talking about leaving. And not just in private conversations or on little-read blogs; a number of Republican state legislators have introduced "sovereignty resolutions" in an apparent attempt to re-enact the events leading up to the Civil War. 'Not Even Check Norris Can Save the GOP.'


• Condi's in Calgary, and Bill Kaufmann writes: "I would have asked Condi if she knew then what we know now -- that many of the hundreds of Guantanamo waterboardings were meant to shake out a fantasy link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. You know, sadism to cook up a rationale for an occupation that's killed thousands more Americans and untold Iraqis." Read the rest here.


• Human Rights groups have their, ahem, Irish up over President Barack Obama’s decision to revive military commissions devised by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay.


• To release the photos or not release the photos. That is the question. The LA Times says they should be released, in spite of the dangers involved. We tend to agree.


• Two things: Jon Stewart's hilarious report on the Pope's visit to the Holy Lands, and a report on genetically modified foods and why we shouldn't eat them. You figure out the link between the two. Click here.