No time for fun and games; it’s Monday’s rant on the news you need:
• Cyclone Larry batters Australia
• And Cyclone Wati is on the way
• Nepalese ‘Buddha boy’ reappears–briefly
• Milosevic never seen in coffin
• Digging up the Skull & Bones connection
• Secret unit’s disturbing ‘Black Room’ in Iraq
• “The Psychology of Abu Ghraib: Elite Thought and Iraqi Prisoner Abuse” by Paul David Collins
• Disillusioned troops come home to be spat at in the street
• 13 dead on eve of third anniversary in Iraq
• Pink ‘iPods’ for democracy
Or, “$8 million to friends of Sen. McConnell for high-tech boondoggle”
• Former US President Bush asks China to support Citibank’s bid for bank