Thursday Linkage

I always get so sad on this day when I see how strong and forgiving the Japanese people are. Don't know if I could do the same.

Hiroshima mayor calls for nuke free world

Friends fan 'hallucinates' as he watches every episode ever made in record-breaking 84-hour TV marathon

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler falls from stage, airlifted to hospital

New York Times: U.S. to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a “truly civil detention system.”

Programs to change gays to straights don't work, report says

Police charge man over beer run on lawnmower

LONELY NO MORE Knut The Polar Bear Awaiting Italian Female Companionship

Washington Post: Obama's Battle Against Terrorism To Go Beyond Bombs and Bullets The U.S. government must fundamentally redefine the struggle against terrorism, replacing the "war on terror" with a campaign combining all facets of national power to defeat the enemy, John O. Brennan, President Obama's senior counterterrorism adviser, said Wednesday.