Yes, they survived. See Boing Boing for more on a Holocaust Survivor, his daughter & Grand children dancing at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe.

News/Politics

British Petroleum’s New Cap: BP announced it had successfully attached a new cap on its oil geyser in the Gulf of Mexico. This may be great news, may be nothing. Hard to tell with this anymore.

Brown Says Yes to Financial Reform: The Tea Party seemed to forget that Scott Brown has a large liberal base to appease if he wants any shot at re-election. So it appears Financial Reform, such that it is, is a go.

McCain’s Fights: New York Magazine takes an in-depth look at John McCain. And let’s be quite honest, psychologists would have a field day with this Maverick.

Mel Gibson – Douche: The man some wanted canonized unleashed insults, racial slurs, threats and admits to domestic assault like a good Christian.

The Chase Continues: The U.S. says they aren’t finished with Roman Polanski.

Sports

Paul the Octopus: Ok, nothing to report here. Just thought you needed to be slowly weaned off the famed cephalopod.

Home-Run Derby: Maybe it’s a surprise that Major League Baseball still holds the home-run derby, but in any case – David Ortiz Wins!

Blogs

The Political Carnival: The clean-up crews for the British Petroleum Oil Disaster are being placed in harm’s way, says a source.

True Slant: It’s a new world. After years of hiding its nuclear program, Israel sees one of its bases pop up on Facebook.

Bad Astronomer: Phil points out some division with “Under God” in the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance.

Think Progress: The Birthers have slowed to a crawl, so a new conspiracy emerges – Obama started the BP Oil Spill.

Gawker: Canadians pick their battles well, as some of them have declared war on Facebook.

Interesting

We Will Survive: As a matter of fact, no, a giant methane bubble won’t kill us all.

Tweet of the Day

“The #TeaParty Legacy – Claim you won the election for Scott Brown, watch him vote with liberal constituency, then lose to Dem.”

–WKW

Crossposted at William K. Wolfrum Chronicles