A nice, sunny Saturday. If you're stuck inside, and you don't feel like calling up Anita Hill and harassing her for no good reason, here are some links for you. Science:
Curious controversial case of colony collapse disorder afflicting bees in U.S.
Royce Murray and Caveat Emptor
50 More Urban Species #42: Phidippus audax
A hot bed of germ-y journalism (aka germs on gadgets)
Other:
TheDC OP-ED: One nation, under fraud (a good, if long summary, of the foreclosure mess. Notable as it occurs in a conservative publication)
This teacher reacts to seeing "Waiting for Superman"
Foreclosure Fraud: We Need to Fix the Banks Again
Capitalism Would have Killed the Chilean Miners: a Reply to Mr. Henninger
A New Study Shows that Americans are Idiots
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Apparently, you get to volunteer for council duty, and then the representatives are chosen by lot. I don't know how Jrette was selected to chair the thing next term. From what I've heard, she's been one of the most outspoken members of the school's environmental group since daycare days. Maybe she's simply been selected for being talkative.