AMF: Helping Kids

Happy Friday, folks!

Report: CIA Hired Blackwater to Help With Hit Squads (Fox, BBC) - And... ? The last time I checked, the idea of sending guys with special forces backgrounds to hunt down terrorists was a good thing. People who whine about this kind of crap are morons.

CNN: Shipwreck pocket watch returned after 128 years - Not a security related story, just really interesting. Kind of a feel good story. If you're looking for something light, and almost inspiring, have a look.

BBC: How Unix has survived

BBC: Reaction: Lockerbie bomber set free - The Fly's reaction? Unbe-fucking-lievable.

Guardian: Can the world survive a zombie attack? - Zombie entertainment aside, I still can't believe that this was treated as science, and I also can't believe that it's being treated as a semi-legitimate news story.

Guardian: There is a harsh reality behind the romance of Greyhound bus journeys - Apparently Greyhound is starting service in England. And apparently English people are enamoured with Greyhound, as if it's some American cultural gem. Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to England. I spent two and a half months of my life there. England has buses that are every bit as good as Greyhound, if not better, and English rail service is much better (and far more geographically feasible) than it is in the United States. There's literally no reason why the English should bother with Greyhound.

Guardian: History is much too important to be left to politicians - "The EU must not give succour to self-interested revisionists who equate Stalinism and Nazism in an effort to smear the left." Uh, maybe because Stalin killed far more people than Hitler? This guy's the revisionist historian. Wow. Defending Stalin. Now I've seen everything.

Times: John Yettaw: I would do it again for Suu Kyi - This guy needs to be flogged. Seriously, read this article. I dare every last one of you to read two or three paragraphs of this article, and tell me that this guy shouldn't have his passport and his "military pension" revoked, and then be flogged. What a deranged jerk.

The Onion: Helping Your Kids Succeed

I've been a bit under the weather lately, so that's all for today. Check back on Monday for more excellence from yours truly.