Lately

Cool and crazy Soviet bus stops. Cyrillic Link (via SprayGlue)

Boston freaks out over glowing cartoon figures. Arrests 2 people and presses charges. Meanwhile, two pipe bombs (non-functional) are found attached to bridges - perpetrator identified but NOT arrested. Huh? Boing Boing has it all in lurid detail, including the press conference about 70's hair styles. L(ink)EDs: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Conservative pundit O'Reilly is not so conservative in the bedroom, or when it comes to harassing female subordinates. O'Linkage

Teacher preaching in classroom is recorded by student. School board responds by...banning recording devices. Linky

This week in Bush Ridiculousness: White House forbids Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte to use the phrase "global warming". Becomes a game on Capitol Hill to get him to say it.
Globally-Warm Link

And similarly: "Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasize the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)." From The Guardian