Zimbabwe: from a model of success to abandoned hospitals and rampant disease.  This is what happens when leaders squander money.

Don’t forget to call in “gay” on Dec 10.

You know those reports of horrific treatment of Palestineans by Isreal?  Now it’s on video.

Have you read The Arabian Nights? I remember finding an old copy in my school library in elementary school.  The stories are wonderful!

Antarctic sea life (with awesome pictures).

Really really hot Dresden Dolls singer told she’s “too fat” by her label.

Awesome review of Milk with some incredible insights:

This is the paradox of gay existence that is often the source of so much misunderstanding. The outside world sometimes puts us in a box of cultural otherness – “San Francisco values” – while we are also, simultaneously, as integrated into normality as any heterosexual. Because we are your kids. We grew up in your homes. We can never be totally other when we are also totally mainstream.

My new favorite blog series: An Evil God?

Crowds, Wal-Mart and Black Friday.

Religion makes people so stupid and cruel.

Blogging, migraines, and “sick-lit.”

she wrote about how her head pain that day made her cancel yet another plan she had been looking forward to — this time a cooking class with her husband at Whole Foods. It was hardly a tragedy, she admitted. But it did add to the cumulative frustration of years of missed plans. After all, such minor cancellations remind you of the bigger things you are missing. “Headaches steal so much of your life,” she had written in another entry. “The list is long, but includes jobs, relationships, having children, self-respect, ambition and identity.”

Companies finally catch on that doing business in China SUCKS.