Pat is F-cking Dead Maybe all this hoopla over Pat Tillman is justified. Google News about Pat [Via Metafilter] more inside

Newton's Manuscripts Online. more inside

Another American downer cow. Last Tuesday, a Federal veterinarian reported a downer cow at Lone Star Beef in Texas, one of the nation's top 20 meat packers. Curiously, the plant owner did not destroy or hold the cow for testing, but sent it off to be rendered, conceivably in an attempt to bury a potential problem. Reuters reports that foreign beef importers are in an uproar. Neither Lone Star Beef nor the USDA are talking to reporters.

This "Dumb Blonde" was Pretty Sharp! Joyce Compton Was Always The Girl Next Door, But She Was So Much More.

CACI: An interesting piece on NPR yesterday about the outsourcing of intelligence work In Iraq to private contractors. You can get a job there if you want. I call Interrogator. more inside

Look at the evil arab, how evil he looks

WTC "Attacks"

STOP THE PRESSES! Story of the day: A band of cross-dressers has been stealing cars from dealerships around Alabama to drive throughout the Southeast to competitions for men who parade on stage in women's clothing, police said. (I would not, could not, make this up.)

Monkey On Your Back. From the UCR California Museum of Photography. "This exhibition is a survey of people relating to their primitive cousins through humorous, ironic relationships and poignant indignities."

Indians abused at US military camp in Iraq more inside

Wil Wheaton puts his money where his mouth is - offering $1000 to combat comment spam in an attempt to catch the sick b@$tards that flooded his site with kiddie porn links... on a post regarding how sick Wil's cat Felix is. more inside

Monkey mystery ... worrying news from Serbia about the disappearance of 600 monkeys ...

I wasn't doing so good, but now that I'm dead... He had me sold on just the commentary, but the music is great too. [via Styleboost]

A hole: A great place to escape, take naps, and shoot animals more inside