Roundup - Kid Business!

Line O’ the Day:

“[Sex in the City 2] takes everything that I hold dear as a woman and as a human—working hard, contributing to society, not being an entitled cunt like it’s my job—and rapes it to death with a stiletto that costs more than my car.” [So...you didn't like it?] – Lindy West, Burkas and Birkins [The Stranger]

Best of the Best:

• Peter King Lost His Blackberry! [Big Daddy Drew on Kissing Suzy Kolber]
• The Wages of Obfuscation: Farcism and the AIG Timebomb [Marla Singer on Zero Hedge]
• How the U.S. Government Killed the Safest Car Ever Built [Justin Hyde on Jalopnik]
• Mushroom Tea Murder: Man Removes Friend’s Still Beating Heart [Barry Petchesky on Deadspin]
• Everything Tracy Morgan Said, Season 4 [Unlikely Words]
• Pyongyang: “The Alcatraz of Fun” [Gawker]
• This is Pete Rose’s Corked Bat [Barry Petchesky on Deadspin]
• REMEMBER: in 1930, They Didn’t Know It was the Great Depression Yet [Business Insider via Yahoo!]
• “If They Decide to Start Killing Us,” the young Afrikaner said, “We are Ready” [Ed. Note - Shades of the "Redeker Plan"][Deadspin]
• Brazil’s Victory in the Cotton Trade Exposes America’s Wasteful Subsidies [Washington Post]
• Dorling Cartogram of Unemployment 1980-2009 [Data Driven Consulting]
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty [The Atlantic]
• A long-vanished Soviet probe and a laser could overturn old theories about the Moon [io9]
• Snakes in a Mysterious Global Decline [BBC News]
• Scientists try to prove that women manipulate men with noises during sex [Annalee Newitz on io9]
• Signal or Noise: 8 Mysterious Unsolved Sounds [Web Urbanist]
• The “aliens are coming” speech that convinced 39 cultists to take their lives [io9]
• The Legend Of Black Superman: Billy Ray Bates, Flying High In The Philippines [Rafe Bartholomew via Deadspin]
• Touchdown Jesus Destroyed by Act of God (With Video) [Deadspin]
• Why $1 Trillion May Thwart Afghanistan Dreams [Amity Shlaes on Bloomberg]
• Threat of Microfinance Defaults Rises in India as SKS Plans IPO [Bloomberg]

The Remains:

• Berlusconi Invites Hedge Funds To Destroy His House Of Cards Economy After He Announces Victory Over EUR Speculators [Zero Hedge]
• Last Night’s Winner: Queensbridge in the Building [Barry Petchesky on Deadspin]
• NBA Player Indicated in Indy Drug Investigation [The Indy Channel]
• Michigan Considers Law to License Journalists [Fox News]
• Holy Water Allegedly Sprinkled on Atheist Teacher [South Florida Times]
• NBA Star Explains the Economics of Collusion [Skip Oliva via Mises Institute]
• Foul-Mouthed Irish MP Escapes Punishment [Sky News]
• Soldier in Iraq Loses Home Over $800 Debt [Mother Jones]
• US Money Supply Plunges at 1930s Pace as Obama Eyes Fresh Stimulus [Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on The Telegraph]
• PETA Kills Animals–And It’s a Felony [Center for Consumer Freedom]
• Federal Ban on Gay Men’s Blood Donation to be Reconsidered [CNN Health]
• The Fruitless Search for the Perfect Jackin’ Clip [Big Daddy Drew on Deadspin]
• Bob Costas Feeds the Strasburg Hype Machine [Dashiell Bennett on Deadspin]
• The Real Reasons No One Wants to Serve in the Armed Forces Anymore [Big Daddy Drew on Deadspin]
• The World’s First Printed Building [Blueprint]
• U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan [New York Times]
• The Death of Las Vegas [The Economic Collapse]
• Check Out the Coral Reef Paradise Undisturbed by Humanity [io9]
• San Francisco’s Crime Rate as a Topographical Map [io9]
• Why Did All Life on Earth Nearly Die 250 Million Years Ago? [io9]
• A New Kind of Cloud Formation Boils Over the Central US [io9]
• Deeper impact: Did mega-meteors rattle our planet? [New Scientist via io9]
• Everything You Need to Know About Kevin Costner’s Miraculous Oil-Cleaning Machine [Gawker]
• Television is officially better than movies. Is this bad news for science fiction? [io9]
• Six or so degrees of great geniuses…and Kevin Bacon. [io9]
• Teagarden Affair Once Again Exposes All-Star Voters As A Bunch Of Morons [Deadspin]
• USB-Charged Vibrators May Take Over the Universe [Big Daddy Drew on Deadspin]
• Yankee’s Long Forgotten Mascot [WSJ]
• FJM-ing the Lyrics: “This Afternoon” by Nickelback [Big Daddy Drew on KSK]
• Russian volcano Klyuchevskaya continues to spew fire onto its icy slopes [io9]

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