Friday Links

Happy Friday that feels like a Saturday that's a Monday for some!! This will be the last quiet weekend for a while I'm thinking.

Suicides in national parks increase in 2008

How the Norse god Thor thwarted a home intruder

Why a big bum is good for your health

Gideons International marks 100 years at world's bedside

Obama, Hill Leaders To Discuss Stimulus President-elect Barack Obama reportedly will meet with Congressional leaders to discuss plans for an economic stimulus package. CNN's The Situation Room reported a Democratic congressional leadership aide said "plans are underway for a meeting on Monday between President-Elect Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to discuss Obama's" stimulus proposal. CNN later said transition aides "say the goal is to get the bill signed into law as quickly after the inaugural as possible -- to get the new President a quick victory while also giving the economy a shot in the arm."

Muslim family taken off US flight after talking about where was safest to sit

New ignition lock laws aim to foil drunk drivers

E.J. Dionne writes in the Washington Post, "Blagojevich knows how to make life hell for his enemies, who now encompass almost everyone in the Democratic Party, including...Obama. Yet 'almost everyone' is the operative phrase." By "walking away from Burris, Democrats deprive themselves of a Senate vote for a bit and may even face litigation. That's still better than implicating themselves in Blagojevich's game."