Every Country Moat Needs A Good Occasional Scrubbing

May 19, 2009

If they cannot torture with impunity, what's the CIA supposed to do for the next four years, sit on their thumb(screw)s? [ Washington Post ]
Vice President Biden's in Serbia today, looking to heal and stuff. [ BBC News ]
Same-store sales at Home Depot fell 10 percent, but the home-improvement retailer did not do quite as horribly as expected in Q1. [ Wall Street Journal ]
Direct democracy, huzzah! California voters put on their green eyeshades today and vote on a series of complicated budget measures that, in a sane state, the legislature would have to approve. [ San Francisco Chronicle ]
Exciting socialist auto industry news: national emissions standards, everyone! And a mileage standard of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016. A group of auto makers appear to be on board with this government-sponsored plan. [ AP ]
The Speaker of Great Britain's House of Commons will probably resign today because of an expense scandal. One guy expensed the cleaning of hismoat,for example, which is apparently unethical. [ Telegraph ]