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Coyotes have come back to Michigan. Even downtown Ann Arbor has reported sightings. You just can't keep a good predator down, eh? Or not for long anyhow.

Michigan's next governor: Rick Snyder (R) doesn't want to debate Virg Bernero (D), period. Snyder is up in the polls with six weeks to go and probably figures "who needs it?" Bernero rightly and quite predictably goes ape shit nuts about it too. Sheesh.


FBI probe is sought by pissed and offended Muslims in East Lansing who found a trashed and burned Koran on the doorstep of their mosque. Say it might be a "hate crime".

Mexican gunmen are now regularly shooting at Border Patrol agents from the Mexican side of the border. Another warning of the coming race war? Stay tuned.

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Pentagon shooter was nutty anti-Bush, 9/11 "truther". - Patterico's Pontifications
Look who's talking -Technology Review
"Microsoft CEO: Google merits regulatory scrutiny."
The rise of cyber-vigilantism in China - Slashdot.org/
They hunt down miscreants found on the web and give them a meat-space beatdown for their transgressions. Hmm....

Meet the real 'Uptight Seattleite' - Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Monica Guzman)
Interview with the author of US. Funny as hell. Spot-on accurate too.
A month after the keystone paper proposing a link between a common childhood vaccine series and autism was retracted, the debate rages on. - Scientific American online (Katherine Harmon)
The scientifically illiterate conspiracy types just won't give it a rest.
The story of a fatal coyote attack in eastern Canada - Outside online (Elizabeth Royte)
These things do happen but still... less than 200 attacks in 50 years compared to 4.5 million domestic dog attacks during the same period tells me this isn't as much of a problem.
Are Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore?-Slate (Rachel Lehmann-Haupt)
Nope.
Mars does have canals after all. They're just filled with ice. - i09 (Analee Newitz)