Tuesday Linkage

I just happened to notice that we're very close to having had 4,000,000 views on the blog. 4 freaking million? Holy cow. Maybe I should put some pants on or something...

Source: 10 More to be Charged with Madoff

The office can help make you fat

Fred Travalena, master impressionist, dies

Foreign Firms Bid for Iraqi Oil Licenses

McClatchy: Scalia breaks ranks, slams Bush officials on bank regulation In a rebuke of the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal bank regulator erred in quashing efforts by New York state to combat the kind of predatory mortgage lending that triggered the nation's financial crisis.

Child survives Yemeni plane crash

Not so fast, Mr Bond! Aston Martin builds one-litre £20,000 supermini

Poll finds Palestinians doubt ME peace

California's most conservative county uses much cash

CNN: Reputed Afghan drug lord held for trial in U.S.
A reputed drug lord described as one of the biggest heroin suppliers in eastern Afghanistan — with suspected ties to the Taliban — appeared in federal court in Washington Monday, where he was ordered detained pending his expected drug trial.