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N.H. State Liquor Commissioner arrested for DWI - Manchester Union-Leader

Obama to close the Guantanamo detention camp, but to open two more - American Conservative

"As yet there is no sign that the notorious eight-year-old detention facility is close to a shut down. Worse yet, there is evidence that, when it finally is closed, it will be replaced by two Guantanamos — one in Illinois and the other in Afghanistan."

Saturn's moons Dione and Titan as seen by the Cassini robotic orbiter - Astronomy Pic of the Day

Why I Give My 9 Year-Old Autistic Son Pot - Slate (Marie Myung-ok Lee)

Seems to work out just fine says the author.

Myth Busters Adam Savage speech to Harvard Humanist student group - boingboing

About why he's an atheist.

Jonah Goldberg on the Tea Party movement - LA Times

The tea parties are a delayed conservative backlash against Bush.

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Amazon fires all it's Colorado affiliates rather than be the gov's tax-collector - Ars Technica

Why so many corruption scandals coming out of NY lately? - Bloggingheads.tv (Megan McArdle & Mark Schmitt)

Adam Savage of Myth Busters! likes to build Blade Runner pistols as a hobby. - Boing Boing

Some really interesting pics of the pistols he's built over the years.

A New Atheist with some big balls - Slate (Christopher Hitchens)

What makes Hitchens stand out is the way that he takes on Islam head-on rather than the rest of that ilk that takes potshots only at Christianity (which is largely a spent force in the world) and gives Judaism, Buddhism and the rest of the world's religions a pass.

A death-row killer who'll probably out-live us all - LA Weekly

This guy has been sentenced to death three separate times and has been convicted of killing four people. And California will never execute him. He's been languishing on death-row since the 80's. Just sentence him to life without parole and be done with him.

90 % of NYC nannies paid off the books. - NY Post

What a surprise. The rich folks don't want to bother with the taxes and paperwork involved and the nannies are left with a low wage job, but with no taxes taken out so they keep it all.