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Daily Kos: Bush's plan for voluntary industry regulation of emissions has led to absolutely no change whatever. Also, a dKos screenshot has made the front page of USA Today. I recently discovered that my boyfriend reads dKos sometimes, even though he's previously claimed never to have visited a blog. When confronted with the fact that an increasingly favorite news source was in fact a blog, he said "I didn't know it was a blog."

BusyBusyBusy brings us the usual hit parade of unintentionally funny conservatives.

At Corrente, Lambert takes a look in the recovery for some, the Wecovery as they like to call it. But Krugman said it best when he said "The bottom line, then, is that for most Americans, current economic growth is a form of reality TV, something interesting that is, however, happening to other people."

Pandagon on how liberals doing what conservatives have been doing for a long time becomes unprecedented, and draws our attention to an eye-opening piece about what happens when industry flacks become regulators.

Prometheus 6 is one angry blogger, because for some reason he thinks it's a bad idea to chastise Iraqis for being insufficiently grateful to the US. Who do these people think the Iraqis are anyway, Democrats?

If you or a relative has ever been in severe or chronic pain and needed to (my god, the horror) take medication that treated it, please pay attention to the DOJ's war on pain doctors. I know that the mischaracterization of medical use of narcotic pain treatments is out of hand when an 80-year-old relative in constant pain told me that she was afraid to tell anyone that the only pain medication that works for her anymore is morphine based. That's just... depressing.

The Agonist picks up a Juan Cole posting that captures a telling quote about the desire not to have a public trial for Saddam. "...There is another thing, the possibility that he will mention the names of states and the names of persons to whom he has given bribes and wealth. We don't want him to mention all that on television. ..." Hmmm. Is it really the people he's *given* bribes and wealth to, or the people he *took* weapons and wealth from that are worried here?

Over at Wampum, Eric points out where you can go to victims of the Bam earthquake. Dwight explains the tort reform scare tactics that serve only to confuse the public. MB tells us that vaccine manufacturer sock puppet Sen. Bill Frist is trying to absolve them of all liability for injury before a full inquiry has even determined that the vaccine additive thimerosal played a role in the rising case numbers of autistic children.

Ruminate This highlights Republican opposition to penalties for war profiteering. Can't imagine why they'd want to oppose that...

Al-Muhajabah notes that Canadian Wal-Mart workers are trying to unionize.

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