Another backlog dump

Just a bunch of stories I've bookmarked over the last several days, all (I think) worth reading:

• McCain still lying after all these years - and the sooner the public finds it out, the better.


• The 100 Best Companies to Work For - according to a CNN poll.


• Trends in Political Values and Core Attitudes: 1987-2007 -- Political Landscape More Favorable to Democrats - from the Pew Foundation, who know their onions.


• U.S. War Costs In Iraq Up - I'm shocked, shocked; so should you be.


• What’s $34 Billion on Wall Street? - not much if you lose it for a company.


• Will the press get over its love for McCain? - They'd better.


• Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler - and way past time.


• Cust questions source behind his inclusion in Mitchell report - Larry Bigbie can't even tell the truth about where his locker was.


• McCain, Romney lob 'liberal' - running as fast and as far from the L-word may get a Republican nominate, but it won't get him elected: "bomb Iran and cut taxes for the rich" is so last year.


• U.S. used waterboarding but no more-ex-spy chief - unless, of course, we feel like it.


• TSA tester slips mock bomb past airport security - fly the very friendly skies.


• Is Congress Finally Ready to Go Green? - are pigs ready to fly?


• He’s baaaacccckkk….Nader forms presidential exploratory committee - would someone please take this man aside to some quiet place and beat the crap out of him? (Granted, there wouldn't be much left after that.)


• Umpires' union says MLB investigators acting like 'secret police' - what, there's something wrong about pretending to be a friend of his, then asking his neighbors if he belongs to the KKK or grows marijuana or throws wild parties? Who knew?


• Kicking Democracy’s Corpse in Russia - that didn't last long.


• Restoring Civil Rights - the ones those fun-lovin' boys and girls on the Supreme Court took away, because we can't have that silly ol' Congress making our laws.


• Why It Feels Good to Scratch - not a joke: the science here is fascinating.


• Enemies everywhere - Glenn Greenwald with more thoughts about Republican concepts of "bipartisanship".


• Pictures Reveal Mercury’s Tumultuous Past - and
  Messenger's Pictures From Mercury Surprise Scientists - it's nice to remember that there are still sane and interesting people doing sane and interesting things, such as science.