X-Ray of Lakshmi Before Parasitic Twin Removed: DaVinci code.

The Tao closed almost 300 points lower for the week ending Friday, as investors shifted their orgones towards International Happiness Funds. Reality futures were down 4.2 percent as municipalities scramble to reassess properties before declining valuations take a bite out of their projected property tax collections.

Miami Herald: Just give him the keys, and nobody gets hurt The rapid escalation of the U.S. anti-immigration hysteria — fueled by ratings-hungry cable-television hotheads and leading Republican presidential hopefuls — is a dangerous trend: It may lead to a Hispanic intifada that may rock this nation in the not-so-distant future. Remember the Palestinian intifada of the early 1990s, when thousands of frustrated young Palestinians took to the streets and

Norman Mailer, inventor of the word “fug,” dead at 84.

Lefty blogs howl. Because of teh hypocrisy? Under the title, “Why Is This Man Smiling?” one of them begins this way: Just yesterday, Bush said (two posts back), “I’ve committed our troops into harm’s way twice, and it’s not a pleasant experience because I understand the consequences firsthand.” Today he went to an army medical facility and met some people who actually do understand the consequences of his decisions firsthand.

Liberrocky, interested in what UN sources have been contributing to wikis, discovers a UN contributor altering a description of Orianna Fallaci to read “racist whore.”

RTO Trainer: Positive News from Iraq: Ignore this Post!!3! SarahW: Lolinated River C: Eternal Web Conundrums, 3 Serr8d: For Dan…  (Not Safe for Wife!) Also, go check out Christopher Taylor’s excellent blog for more lolly goodness. Definitely the graphics part of this package.

With apologies to Allahpundit for the “Friday Stupid” meme: The legend lives o­n from the Chippewa o­n down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. Saturday is the 32nd anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald — 729 feet-long, 75 feet in breadth, 39 feet in depth, weighing 13,632 gross tons — an ore bulk carrier with a capacity of 25,000 tons. When it was launched o­n June

A huge offshore oil discovery could raise Brazil’s petroleum reserves by a whopping 40 percent and boost this country into the ranks of the world’s major exporters, officials said. Fausta correctly ascertains that this sucks for Chavez.

Vomity? The discussion went better than I expected. Some people demanded responses to specific and alleged violations of comity by various bloggers and commentators, but for the most part, we moved beyond rehashing old debates and focused on how to specifically improve communication. We talked about bright lines for bloggers on topics and attacks, where they exist (if they exist), and whether they exist as a broad agreement. One of