links for 2006-09-30

Stephanie has a spreadsheet version of this that is also excellent.

About six in 10 Iraqis say they approve of attacks on U.S.-led forces, and slightly more than that want their government to ask U.S. troops to leave within a year, according to a poll in that country.

In addition to our own intelligence agency study saying the war is increasing terrorism, a new British study says the same thing.

Disgraced lobbyist was in almost constant contact with the White House making deals.

The Senate legalized torture and permanent detention of “enemy combatants” as well as a broad definition of who fits that description today, granting the President sweeping new powers.

Cool! We could live in Rhode Island and get married.

Pictures of the new world record.

Flyer was detained for writing “Kip Hawley is an idiot” on the clear plastic bag given to him to hold his belongings. Hawley is the director of TSA.

How to make your own TSA “Kip Hawley is an idiot” travel bags for flying.

Before the late 1940s, automobile turn signals were an after-market item. At the Automotive Addictions blog, Bobby Green displays a wide variety of amazing accessory turn signals from the 20s and 30s that came in all kinds of cool shapes and styles.

A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul, says Jay Parini. Books show a temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world.

Apparently, one of the exhibits was an abstract nude sculpture, and the family of one of the kids objected.

“sex kills girls” — hurley comments on the next season