Twitter: Making the Electoral College look democratic: Lib Dems could win U.K. popular vote, but trail far behind in Parliament http://bit.ly/aCySMu
From the Norwegian Meteorological Office, via The Map Room, here’s an animation of the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano, Eyjafjallajökull, that’s disrupting air travel and sowing PANIC!!!!! all across Europe. “Yellow indicates ash that has fallen by itself, red ash that has fallen as a result of precipitation, and black where the ash cloud is at that moment in… Read more »
Twitter: CNN Breaking News — U.S. official: Toyota has indicated it will pay a $16.4 million fine for failing to promptly give notice of a defect.
FriendFeed: A good post about Goldman Sachs and why Magnetar-type trades are “unethical” and “inexcusable” — regardless of whether technical “fraud” occurred
Twitter: RT @ezraklein: Reality: If you don’t tax the banks for a short-term resolution fund, that crisis money will come from taxpayers. We *just* saw this.
Twitter: RT @ezraklein: Sunday shows aren’t explaining how liquidation fund works. Shareholders are wiped out. Management fired. Company sold off. That’s a bailout?
Twitter: I can still type Obama, Canada and UCLA on my phone. Thus, I blame its demise on the Obama-Canada-UCLA axis of evil. Or rather, ax of evl.
Twitter: “How to Save the Catholic Church” by @PeggyNoonanNYC: http://bit.ly/cqG57y. “The Vatican badly needs new blood — and a woman’s touch.”
FriendFeed: Big Ten expansion push heating up
Twitter: Phone still broken. Bit bullet, bought a new one — or rather, a used one (a Sanyo 8200 from eBay). Will ponder upgrade to iPhone in June.