links for 2006-10-17

Lecturers and staff at British universities will be asked to spy on “Asian-looking” and Muslim students they suspect of supporting terrorist acts and involvement in Islamic extremism, The Guardian reported.

George W. Bush (1,10) shows us the price of indifference, John McCain demonstrates his maverick streak by, er, bashing Bill Clinton, and Dennis Hastert (3) is in “grave” condition. Elsewhere, Katherine Harris (4) rigs another election, new revelations cou

Origins of the phrase “whistling past the graveyard” which means to “carefully ignore the current situation.”

The Marshall, Missouri Public Library is considering banning the Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel, calling it “pornography.”