- The Bay of Pigs: 50th Anniversary | About.com Latin American History
- It was on April 17th, 1961, that a small army of CIA-trained Cuban exiles landed at the "Bay of Pigs" in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro's regime. …
- Why Not A Public Option for Medicare? – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
- …notice that neither I nor Longman are suggesting that anyone be forced into such a system. It would have to win patients in a fair competition with both traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage.
And what would terrify the right, of course, is the likelihood that genuine socialized medicine would actually win that competition.
- Updated Book Titles: Less Pretentious, More Accurate
- Over at OhNoTheyDidn’t, you can find some alternative titles for some of the most famous books ever written — or, in ONDT’s own words, titles that are “more accurate and less pretentious” than the originals.
Before clicking over to the (slightly NFSW) whole collection, test your high/low cultural agility by trying to guess a few originals from their updates:…
- Watch: Black Students ‘Sold’ at Mock Slave Auction – ABC News: Top Stories
- Virginia teacher has fourth-grade students reenact a slave auction in class.
[My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Also, signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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