Justin Fung a.k.a. gershom's journal

Links of the Day, October 8

News

• A bomb hits the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan.
• The Nobel Prize in literature goes to Herta Mueller.
• Pew reports that one in four is Muslim.
• US legal pot growers cut into Mexican traffickers' profits.

Health care

• The President finds support from outside the party and outside the Beltway: Schwarzenegger, Thompson, Gephardt, Bloomberg, Dole.
• Nick Kristof: "If health care reform doesn't get passed, how about we let Congress go without insurance?"
• According to the CBO, the Baucus bill will reduce the deficit.

Miscellaneous

• "Lowly females pick mediocre males" ... at least in the bird world.
• Shep Smith on bacon cheese doughnut burgers being "signs of the Apocalypse." I'm wiling to go with him here and allow a little hyperbole, because those things look like death in a burger. Seriously ...