Wednesday Linkage

Olympic crap already? Man, it's gonna be painful for me.

McCain Bundler Collects From Unlikely Donors

Texas Execution Angers Mexico

WSJ Op-Ed: Sen. Hillary R. Clinton: No Crisis Is Immune From Exploitation Under Bush
Tucked away on the Cayman Islands sits Ugland House, an unassuming, nondescript building of modest scale and size. However, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), this five-story office building is home to more than 18,000 corporate entities, nearly half of which have U.S. ties.

New numbers adding up to rare hope for rarer gorillas

Kansas politician who crusaded against abortion loses big

Financial Times: Obama running mate could come from ‘left field’
Fans of Evan Bayh, the clean-cut senator for Indiana, are hoping today will be the day he is selected as Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running mate. They are likely to be disappointed.

3 Indiana guardsmen die in one week in Iraq

111-year-old reptile finally becoming a father

AP: NRA accused of paying mole in gun-control groups
A gun-control activist who championed the cause for more than a decade and served on the boards of two antiviolence groups is suspected of working as a paid spy for the National Rifle Association, and now those organizations are expelling her and sweeping their offices for bugs.