http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090810/ap_on_re_eu/eu_belarus_lenin_statue_collapse_1
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/08/why-unemployment-probably-wont-hit-10.html
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4386683
http://www.discourse.net/archives/2009/08/making_the_rounds.html
“To take a Republican-sponsored healthcare provision that rather innocently and uncontroversially extends insurance coverage to those that want to create their own living wills and turn it into a declaration that the government will decide every five years whether or not you should be euthanized is something out of the Protocols, or out of Saddam’s Iraq, or a mimicry of… Read more »
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/magazine/09FOB-onlanguage-t.html?ref=magazine
The Santa Barbarians were in town this weekend — i.e., Loyette and Loyacita’s uncle, aunt and 3 1/2-year-old cousin — and we took the opportunity to go on a bunch of adventures, including a hike in Boulder on Saturday. We missed the trail we originally intended to take, and ended up hiking an invented loop trail combining portions of the… Read more »
http://www.denverpost.com/technology/ci_13023974
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/world/asia/10china.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
http://twitter.com/brendanloy/statuses/3200797738