Wednesday Links For Thee

My RSS feed is being cranky today, maybe it wants to go tea bagging? On with the day...

Pirates Fail in Attack on U.S. Ship

How keeping it in the family spelled the end of the line for the Hapsburg royal dynasty

Bad Economy A Boon For Psychics

Washington Post: At Summit of Americas, U.S. May Face World of Blame for Economy President Obama plans to take his message of partnership to Latin America and the Caribbean this week, but he will face a group of leaders far less forgiving than their European counterparts were about the United States' central role in the global financial crisis.

Afghan women protesting marriage law are pelted with rocks

London suffering from shocking rise in rare 'Victorian' diseases

Drought Threatens Iraq's `Garden of Eden'

McClatchy: After lapses, Justice orders retraining for its prosecutors Attorney General Eric Holder launched a wide-ranging review Tuesday of his lawyers' compliance with evidence-sharing rules in response to a federal judge's scathing criticism of prosecutors' conduct in the corruption trial of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.