Wednesday Linkage

Anyone else see Bill Maher on with Craig Ferguson last night, acting like a juvenile jerk? I literally couldn't watch. He was kinda shitty with Leno last week too. Wonder what's up with him.

Marchers Block US Border to Protest Army Presence

Doh! Father who shot himself with a Taser admits it was a bit of a Homer Simpson moment

Pictured: The man with the world's longest ear hair

Anti-Semitic attacks rising, UK watchdog reports

Federally funded ad campaign holds up value of marriage

Washington Post: Judge Refuses to Dismiss Charges Against Blackwater Guards A federal judge yesterday refused to throw out charges against five U.S. security contractors accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in a busy Baghdad square in 2007.

'Porn king' nailed with whopping tax bill

Florida tourism slide may be worse than post-9-11 decline

Venereal-disease rates soar among Canadian soldiers

Charter schools little better than others: study

Swedish woman receives own death certificate in the post

Chicago Tribune: As more Afghan civilians die, so does trust of U.S. forces Backlash brews, threatening to undermine U.S. mission in Afghanistan.