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Larry David explains how he became an environmentalist.
Its all about the Tuna/mercury quotient messing with his lunch habits:

Oh, sure, there’s been peanut butter every now and then—but that’s only when tuna’s not available. I couldn’t eat peanut butter every day. And I can’t eat BLTs or grilled cheese because of cholesterol. What am I supposed [...]

Science writer Carl Zimmer is embarking on a series of articles outlining big topics in evolution. He beings with the eye.

Jellyfish belong to a branch of animals known as cnidarians that split off from the ancestors of bilaterians some 600 million years ago. Some species have simple photoreceptors, while others have full-blown camera-eyes hanging from [...]

The laws of heated discussion mean a response to a response to a response to a Newsweek article on Tort Reform will repeat the same sort of arguments as any other article in the genre.
But Stephanie Mencimer nails the arguments of Reformer articles:

Newsweek, after all, gave the erroneous impression that the vast majority of lawsuits [...]

Josh Marshall notes that the number of Republicans against the President’s plan to destroy Social Security is quite large.
Furthermore:

(ed.note: For those of you who are not familiar with them, the Club for Growth is a public interest group that advocates on behalf of the extremely wealthy.)

David Brooks continues his tour of wrong-all-the-time-land.
He is shocked to learn that passionate members of the Center-Left party are more left than center.

They tend to be to the left of the country, especially on social and security issues. They may not agree with Michael Moore on everything, but many enjoyed “Fahrenheit 9/11.” Perhaps they are [...]

The USA Today is the conventional wisdom on Howard Dean.

Dean was a fiscal conservative and supported gun rights as governor. But he came across in his presidential campaign as a dovish Northeastern liberal with a tendency to commit gaffes, such as his “scream” speech after losing the Iowa caucuses.

Notice the blatant disregard of Dean’s actual [...]

The Oil for Food scandal report has hit the ground running.
The major problems:

The audits detail how U.N. agencies working under the oil-for-food program allegedly squandered millions of dollars through suspect overpayment to contractors, mismanagement of purchasing and assets, and fraud by its employees.

Note how this process differs measurably from our Government’s relationship with Halliburton.

Without any help of hyperlinks here speaks the sum of Ayn Rand.

The more I think about it, the more her worldview resembles a Soviet era socialist-realist novel with the word “communism” scratched out and “capitalism” written in.