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* Macaulay Culkin is 30. Feeling old yet?

* "I Am the Population Problem:" http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2011/08/16/i-population-problem-0

* Another bad news round up: http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/08/another-bad-news-round-up.html#more

* "Slatebreaking Books to Diversify Your Reading:" http://slatebreakers.com/2011/08/26/slatebreaking-books-to-diversify-your-reading/#more-397

* Don't worry, Republicans are still trying to defund FEMA, the national Weather Service, and any other government organization in the wake of disaster, along with maintenance and infrastructure improvements for things like bridges that might be damaged in earthquakes hurricanes, etc.. After all, it is important that Republican budget policy should never takes facts or reality into consideration, as reality has a well known liberal bias.

* They found a book made up of photos of Condoleezza Rice in Qaddafi's rooms in his compounds. I suspect we are all thinking the same thing. I know I'd feel queasy in her place, but obviously, I have no way to know how she feels about it. I am not one of her fans, but I definitely have empathy for her in this instance. There will be no jokes about it in this space.

* I mistakenly called the brave woman who talked the Loyalist into releasing the hotel hostages a reporter. Further information shows that she was actually a producer for one of the news organizations. She remains impressive and heroic.

* seifaiden weighed in on Arabic pronunciation and romanization in the comments in an earlier entry, and as it5's frankly pretty interesting, I'm linking to the entry so y'all can check it out: http://gwyd.livejournal.com/1160326.html


* I forgot to mention yesterday they found another moon of Pluto.

* Shelley and Byron: http://beatonna.livejournal.com/150444.html