Psyche's News Roundup

What "Effective Governance" Looks Like
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/24/2008 | Obama's unusual transition: Already a co-president
Study: Many Obama Small Donors Really Weren’t - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com (because we kept giving)

Donklephant » Blog Archive » Supreme Court To Review Obama’s Citizenship (Clarence Thomas)
Jesus' General: Mike Huckabee: The Smiling Happy Face of Theocratic Fascism
My Left Nutmeg:: Joe The Paskudnyak* (Lieberman)

Big Budget Events - Slideshows - CNBC.com
RIA Novosti - World - Russian analyst predicts decline and breakup of U.S.
Balloon Juice: Gotta Love It: New Republic is the Michael O’Hanlon of magazines- usually wrong, always loud, and for reasons no one can really explain, looked upon as if they know something.

Fed Has Giant and Opaque Role in Financial Crisis Aid (Opaque...the new transparency)
Citigroup Bailout: Feds Offer Massive Rescue Package To Financial Giant (M-effer of all bailouts)
Bloomberg.com: Exclusive-Fed Pledges Top $7.4 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit

A Reporter at Large: Anatomy of a Meltdown: The New Yorker: Ben Bernanke and the financial crisis.
YouTube - Peter Schiff
Eschaton: Deep Thought: I'm so old I can remember when spending $8 billion to give more health care to kids would spook the bond markets so badly that it just couldn't be done.

US seeks 300 billion dlrs from Gulf states: report
America’s Debt to Income Ratio as Compared with Other Countries
The Corruption of Economics (Henry George and Neo-Classical Economics (NCE)) (see above)

We must plan a survival strategy for our species - Short Sharp Science - New Scientist
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic ice is melting faster than computer models of climate calculate
Score: Romantics, 1 - Cynics, 0 | Science Blog (long-term passionate love stimulates same area as cocaine)

You Might Be A Sex Offender If... Once Fallen
Are Men Boring?
White extremists lash out over election of first black president - Los Angeles Times

Pranking Pride - The Biggest Pranks in Geek History - TIME
Beauty Is Truth In Mathematical Intuition: First Empirical Evidence
The Happiness Gene -Is it Inherited?

Nature Best Photography of 2007 - Euphoria Magazine