Saturday, February 20, 2010

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Hawaiian cane toads damaging Australia's Eco-system. - Seattle Post-Intelligener
Introduced by sugar plantation owners decades ago they are killing off native species.
Dr. Bruce Ivins was never charged with anything though. He was "about to be busted" say the feds but he offed himself first. Hmm...?
Margot Adler reads 75 vampire novels and develops a theory about why people like them. - NPR
"...[O]rdinary workers pay taxes at a 25 percent marginal rate, [but] many of Wall Street's highest paid dealmakers get to pay tax at just a 15 percent rate. They get this lower rate because of the special treatment of 'carried interest,' also known as the fund managers' tax break." - Beat The Press (Dean Baker)
RIAA Defendent to Court:$675,000 Damages Award For $21 In Lost Profits Is Unjust - Ars Technica
It ain't about the money, kiddo.
Killing For Tenure - American Thinker
"What's so different about Amy Bishop's existential meltdown that it doesn't get the 24/7 coverage that a mass shooting usually garners? For starters, she's a woman, rare in killings of this type. She has a Ph.D. ...from Harvard. There you go. She got her Ph.D. from the same place where Obama got his law degree."