More stuff you should be reading instead of pretending to be a law-abiding citizen…

• Um, tell me this doesn’t sound like a Gestappo tactic: According to the Rocky Mountain News, the FBI is now making preemptive house calls to people they suspect might protest at one of the upcoming political conventions. (via TalkLeft)
• Kevin Drum points us to more Bush flipping and flopping.
• The New York Times digests the 9/11 Commission Report and suggests that much of what we thought we knew about the attacks is wrong. Government officials, according to the article, apparently lied, obfuscated, and covered their asses in order to make themselves look as taken off guard as the rest of us were.
• Okay, I’m no biker, I don’t really follow cycling, but what Lance Armstrong is about to do has got to be one of the all-time great feats in sports history. (BBC News)
• Some records that were supposedly destroyed have miraculously turned up, and they seem to show that Bush technically deserted from the Air National Guard. So, why are news outlets saying there’s nothing new here? (Eschaton)
• Cassini sees lightning on Saturn, starts counting, “One one-thousand, two one-thousand, ...”
• When blogging is mentioned as “the hottest new enterprise tool” and Microsoft is getting behind the idea, you know it’s over. Blogging is so June ‘04. Wikis are where it’s at.
• For pure vitriolic hate spewing, I’m not sure even the most radical right-wing religious nutball could top BitterWaitress.com’s database of shitty tippers. (via Boing Boing)

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