Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Tuesday Linkies


Lots of stuff to get to today, so grab your coffee and get to it.

Mengele's food coupons found: Bizarre insight into the lives of Nazi death doctors unearthed in Auschwitz house

Just be glad you're not diving for oceanic snot

Bigfoot finger puppets

The injection that can cure phobias... unless, of course, you're terrified of needles

Politico: Weak tea? Partiers fear fallout
Ready and eager to transition from opposing health care reform to targeting the members of Congress who made it happen, tea party organizers find themselves grappling instead with reports of ugly behavior at this weekend’s protests in Washington that could stymie efforts to broaden the movement’s appeal. While the thousands of tea partiers who thronged the Capitol grounds on short notice in advance of Sunday’s House health care vote were proof of the movement’s continuing energy, their impact was undercut by accounts of racist and homophobic epithets directed at Democratic lawmakers by a handful of individuals among this weekend’s crowd.

20 most stressed, least stressed counties

California shoplifters get prison after bragging on TV

America's riskiest online cities

YouDunnit: a game that travels backwards in time


New York Times: Next Big Issue? Social Security Pops Up Again Now that landmark legislation overhauling the health insurance system is about to become law, addressing Social Security’s solvency could well become the next big thing for President Obama and Congressional Democrats. Central to the health care changes are hundreds of billions of dollars in reductions in Medicare spending over time and expansions of Medicaid. As some administration officials acknowledge, that effectively takes those fast-growing entitlement programs off the table for deficit reduction just as Mr. Obama’s bipartisan commission to reduce the mounting national debt gets to work.

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