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- Eeriest thing about the Polish presidential plane crash: "It was carrying a delegation to a ceremony to commemorate the Soviet massacre of more than 20,000 members of Poland's elite officer corps 70 years ago."
- Massey Energy, parent company of the Upper Big Branch mine where an explosion killed 29 miners last week, deliberately undercuts union coal producers and keeps unions out of its facilities, recently with CEO Don Blankenship personally leading the drive to bust a union that 70 percent of the UBB workers had wanted as recently as three years ago: "By 1988, Massey had sold or closed 18 of 23 Massey facilities with unions, Smith said. The company ended up with five facilities where the UMWA represented the workers. Of the five, the UMWA now represents workers in only two, which are coal processing plants, [Phil Smith, a United Mine Workers spokesman,] said."
- Obama may indeed be an economic corporatist, just like his predecessors, but hey, at least he isn't running the place like Columbia, the country the Tea Partiers may be thinking of when they talk about the US: "During Uribe's tenure, 2.5 million Colombians became refugees in their own country, displaced either by the guerrillas or paramilitarism. ... As of last year, 48,000 government officials, including 800 mayors and 30 governors, were being investigated for corruption."
- The Dawn Johnsen nomination, a whodunit: "So, it was not Ben Nelson who killed the nomination of Dawn Johnsen, nor was it Arlen Specter or Senate Republicans."
- With this Sarah Palin quote, I can't decide if it should get made into an ad for Democrats or if it would actually have the effect she thinks it will: "... what's wrong with being the party of no? We're the party of hell no!''
- Shorter, the Tea Party: "Seriously, if the shiftless welfare queens would just stop stealing all this money from hardworking white people, we wouldn't have all these problems. I don't see why all everyone always jumps to the conclusion that it has anything to do with race."
- Least surprising thing you'll read all day: "Glenn Beck is engaged in a carefully orchestrated performance that, if taken to its logical end, can only end up in tragedy."
- And perhaps the second least surprising, from an article about the low chances of getting a binding international climate deal this year: "Analyses show pledges in Copenhagen are not likely to keep the global average temperature rise below 2C (3.6F)."
- Earthworms form herds: "A modelling study then showed that, by using touch alone, up to 40 earthworms could follow each other in a similar way, explaining how herds of the animals preferred to move together into one chamber in the initial experiments."
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