You have my personal guarantee that this is pretty doggone funny. -Brad
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Reason
Climategate Update 1:
The China Syndrome
Climategate just gets more interesting all the time doesn't it? The Guardian is reporting that the Climatic Research Unit (the U.K. research group at the center of the Climategate affair) has somehow lost critical temperature data again, in this case data from Chinese weather stations that are supposed to prove that the urban heat island effect accounts for a neglible portion of the warming trend found in temperature records.
Washington Post
In tough economic times, shoppers take haggling to new heights
My first attempt as a haggler saved me almost 15 bucks and placed me at the center of "the biggest sea change of consumer behavior since the end of the Second World War" ...
Firms are desperate for revenue, Americans are feeling broke, and the aisles from Best Buy to Macy's and even your neighborhood Giant -- as well as the 1-800 numbers at Comcast and Verizon -- have become venues for let's-make-a-deal.
Denver Post
Colorado banks wary of marijuana-dispensary accounts
".. it's unusual for banks to turn away potential customers, but ... Federal law requires banks not do business with companies operating illegally, and marijuana distribution — for medical purposes or not — is still illegal federally.
EDITORIAL
Scientific proof for medical pot
Time and again, the Obama administration has voiced its allegiance to science on politically controversial issues of environment, energy and health.
We think the administration ought to be true to this laudable principle on the question of medical marijuana.
CNN
Rip Torn posts bail
Reuters version of original story HERE
 TMZ version HERE says
"cops believe Torn thought he was in his own house."
Jan '09 story about another drunk driving charge HERE says he "failed part of a field sobriety exam, then gave up after saying the ground wasn't level enough."
McClatchy newspapers
How Edwards used wealthy heiress to fund love-child coverup
Payments from a wealthy heiress to the Mellon fortune through a Monroe, N.C., interior decorator helped subsidize the cover-up of John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter.
Dep't of Transportation
"Aviation Consumer Protection" site
New government website provides info on airlines and a place to file consumer complaints
Texas Observer
 All walled up: the border fence
How Brownsville’s battle against the federal government’s border fence ended in defeat and disillusionment.
Associated Press
Border fence plagued by glitches, long delays
Feb. 3 -- Originally, the virtual fence was supposed to be completed by 2011; that date has slipped to 2014, largely because of technical problems.
Among other things, the radar system had trouble distinguishing between vegetation and people when it was windy
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