Instead of being productive, I became a vegetable. Maybe I will get to the raised beds tomorrow. The prep work is always the most tedious, but worth it.
As I wait for my Gumbo to finish stewing, let's read.
Krugman: Despair over financial policy."What the country really needs right now from Congress is facts instead of rhetoric. Instead of these "raise your hand if you took a private jet to get here" exercises of outraged populism, we need hearings that educate and illuminate. Hearings like the old Watergate hearings. Hearings in which knowledge is accumulated over time, and a record is established. Hearings that might actually help us get out of this crisis. It's happened before." (NY)Toxic Asset Plan Foresees Big Subsidies for Investors.The Senate confirmed John Holdren, an expert on global climate change, as President Obama's top science and technology advisor. (MSNBC)Afghanistan is on the brink of chaos. (Speigel)Used tires, beer kegs keep zoo animals healthy. (AP)African turtle hitches ride on pope's plane. (Yahoo)Fur companies lure designers with freebies and sponsorship. (Times Online)Sex shop haunts florist. (Telegrah)Talk Dirty to Me. (Dazed Digital)US birds in widespread decline. (BBC)A class action suit claims Freemantle North, the production company of American Idol, is a sweatshop. (CNS)Bethany de Forest's Pinhole Pictures.The Art of the Overhead Projector.Finding Twin Earths: Harder Than We Thought!Is Parenting A Joy Or A Trial? (Science Daily)Search closes in on the 'God particle.' (New Scientist)Dashiell just made it perfectly clear that I must pay attention to him. It is also time for Gumbo.
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