How George W. Bush Saved Civilization
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Israel and said the US was committed to a two-state solution, yadda yadda yadda. [ AP ]
The stock market might rally today because how much more awful can it get, right? (This is what they say pretty much every day in the financial news.) [ CNN Money ]
The Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked by armed gunmen in Lahore, Pakistan. It's going to be nothing but away games for the Pakistani cricket team for a while, because nobody will come to their country and risk death for a frigging cricket game. [ BBC News ]
The new Justice Department released nine more sketchy legal memos drafted by such Bush-era luminaries like John Yoo, showing that in essence everybody lost their minds after 9/11 and imagined George Bush was a benevolent warrior king who might just have to destroy the Constitution in order to save it. [ Washington Post ]
Healthcare reform shocker: It won't be easy. [ Wall Street Journal ]
Some of the new healthcare funding will go to creating new community health centers. The price tag seems suspiciously low -- it averages out to a little over $1 million per center. [ Boston Globe ]