Monday Links

Fumbling with the switch for my brain...

How a lifetime of laundry takes the average mother five months to wash

First lady: Immigration still a priority for Obama, despite congressional kickback

Researchers discover ancient major urban center in Mexico

Illinois Mayor Doesn't Believe that Obama is American

Washington Post: Don't be too quick to mistake tea party for Perot movement
The Perot movement is an obvious starting point to try to understand the tea party movement. Both movements began during times of economic distress and were built on growing distrust of, and even anger with, Washington and the federal government. Each shook up the established political order, forcing the two major parties to adapt. Many of the tea party activists are new to politics, as were many of those who supported Perot. But although they share some attitudes and attributes, the tea partiers are not natural descendants of the followers of the quirky billionaire from Texas.

Secret prison for Sunnis revealed in Baghdad

Supermarkets as anchors for a walkable America

Book will reveal unheard interviews with Jackie Kennedy

AP source: Toyota to agree to $16.4 million fine for delay in reporting gas pedal defect.

CNN: Second deadly attack in 2 days in Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed seven people Sunday at a police station in Kohat - the same northwest Pakistani town where attackers targeted a camp for displaced people and killed at least 41 a day earlier. Kohat is a town in the North West Frontier Province where the Pakistan military has stepped up its offensive against the Taliban in recent weeks. The fighting has caused a flood of displaced people to pour into camps. More than 250,000 people are registered as internally displaced people in the towns of Kohat and Hangu after fleeing the fighting between government troops and the Taliban in Orakzai and Kurram, two districts in the country's tribal region.