Maiello: Defeat the Press
Ramona: Pointers on Bad Disaster Coverage
Wolraich: Obama at the Gates of... Gates
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Enjoy the galaxy from South Dakota in this spectacular time-lapse video.
Japan Nuclear Disaster: Official probe begins as radiation still seeps. Thus far, they've come to the conclusion that nuclear power can be dangerous.
Gitmo: Seems there was a larger underage population hidden away in Cuba than originally reported.
Arizona Burning: The state's third-largest wildfire rages on.
Texas Massacre?: It's like you can't trust psychics about anything anymore.
Iraq: Time for more mercenaries. No way this could go wrong.
Weiner!: Should Anthony Weiner resign? Let's ask David Vitter.
Coulter's Advice: Fringe columnist says fringe things on silly show.
Blago!: Rod Blagojevich will soon learn his fate.
Daily Caller: Joe Miller can't win his own elections so he's determined to keep Mitt Romney from winning anything.
Brad Blog: More voting machine shenanigans, as Las Vegas Mayoral candidate watches her own vote get changed.
Emma Zahn: Quantum computers, Qubits, Entanglements.
Blue Gal: Enjoy the latest Professional Left podcast.
Dallas Ties Up Finals: Dirk Nowitzki plays off illness as Mavericks does what it takes to even up the NBA Finals at two games apiece.
Dock Ellis: How to throw a no-hitter on acid and more from the former Pirates' pitcher.
Growing Gay: The evolution of the Gay celebrity.
No One Could Have Predicted: That Eminem would say bad things about Lady Gaga. How out of character.

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--WKW
Crossposted at William K. Wolfrum Chronicles
By Jane Mayer of the New Yorker. If you are wondering how far PBS is willing to go to placate David Koch to keep their funding? It gives you a look into the special documentry "Citizen Koch" and its fall out. The program was never aired except at Sundance. David Koch resigned from WNET on May 16th.
By Judith Durbin via vocativ.com 5/20
Syrian rebels under siege in a strategic city on the Lebanese border are increasingly turning to social media to wage psychological warfare, according to Vocativ analysts monitoring the region.
The town of Al Qusayr has become ground zero in the war between rebel fighters on the one side and the joint forces of President Bashar Al Assad and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on the other. Some of the most intense fighting has taken place there over the last few days. The New York Times reports both sides consider this battle a turning point in the larger civil war that has been raging for more than two years.
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A collection of links and comments dealing with government spying and intimidation of journalists
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Especially the faces formed by the juxtaposing of star light and dark matter near the galactic core!