White House, San Francisco Chronicle spar over video; Husband and Wives, Splitsville, Relationships, Men and Women

White House, San Francisco Chronicle spar over video--"It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all." Just what we need, Bush-era-style tactics.

Husbands and Wives

• Don't be a sissy! A marital guide flashback - Coupling: Dating, marriage and other relationships Salon
• The Key to Wedded Bliss? Money Matters
• Due to snafu, marriage wasn't legal--Found out 40 years later
• Recycling litter funds honeymoon
• I couldn't get my man to propose - until our house blew up
• This Is Why Most Women Like To Shop Alone
• Desire To Ejaculate Motivates Local Christian To Wed The Onion

Splitsville

• Divorce makes men richer
• New York Man Demands $1.5M From Estranged Wife for Kidney
• 92-year-old Clara Tang on trial for murdering her 98-year-old husband in Australia--A Farker linked to this relevant comic.

Relationships

• Happily never after--Interview with Susan Squire, "I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage" Salon
• The Half and Whole Truths About Relationships
• Downside of dating a beauty: If a woman's more attractive than her man, the relationship may be doomed

Men and Women

• Good-looking women discriminated against by female recruiters
• Gender stereotypes woven into language of toy ads
• "Women, sort yourselves out"
• One-child policy condemns 24m bachelors to life without a wife
• Driver's Test

Thor almighty; Trumped, States of the Nation, TSA; Captain America trailer

Thor almighty--I would have loved this movie just from watching Chris Hemsworth's god-bod fill the big screen (finally a reason to make movies in 3D!), but kudos to Kenneth Branagh for putting together a compelling story of father and sons. Kat Dennings as Darcy was kittenishly cute, and I could've sworn Josh Dallas as Fandral was channeling The Princess Bride's Westley. I can't wait how all these Marvel movies will come together in The Avengers.

Trumped

• Donald Trump's Mexican Birth Certificate
• Donald Trump's racial discrimination problem Salon
• Robert Gibbs to Donald Trump: Where are the tax returns?
• Deferments Helped Trump Dodge Vietnam--How the presidential aspirant avoided fighting for his country
• Trump Unable To Produce Certificate Proving He's Not A Festering Pile Of Shit The Onion

States of the Nation

• How America became the land of Truthers, Triggers, Birthers, and Dan Brown fans
• A New Study Says America Is Losing Its Empathy
• The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010
• Rudeness Is a Neurotoxin
• Most Of What Americans “Know” About The Federal Budget Is Wrong
• What's the Constitution? Don't bother asking 70% of Americans: Alarming number of U.S. citizens don't know basic facts about their own country
• 26% of U.S. don't know who we declared independence from
• Why are so many of the answers on the U.S. citizenship test wrong

TSA

• Former Miss USA left in tears at TSA checkpoint--"I’m sure this woman was just doing her job. But she…I mean she actually…felt…touched my vagina."
• The unvarnished truth about Un-American TSA
• Why airports' "liquid and gels" rules are absurd Salon
• An infuriating search at Philadelphia International Airport
• TSA a stupid game and we should stop playing it
• TSA security looks at people who complain about ... TSA security
• Video shows young girl receiving full pat-down from TSA --They said they were going to stop doing that. Apparently not.

Captain America trailer: will the gung-ho title put audiences off?

Are Republicans Trying to Hurt the Economy for Political Reasons? Birther a Nation; Islamophobia; Religion and Politics; Fascism; Dichotomy; Let's Not Be Civil

Are Republicans Trying to Hurt the Economy for Political Reasons?--It's their best weapon against Obama come 2012.

Birther a Nation

• An embarrassment to the country--"It’s just racism. ... [T]he vast majority have been deliberately misled by an unscrupulous conservative media and by conservative elites who have failed or refused to challenge these doubts."
• Unequivocal Evidence that Birtherism Is a Big Thing--Among Republicans.
• Romney to Trump: Obama Doesn’t Need a Birth Certificate
• Court-Martialed Birther Army Doc Supporters: If Only Obama Had Released The Birth Certificate a Year Ago!
• Would Superman Pass the Birther Test?--So much for the American way.

Joint Chiefs Staffers Issue Paper Saying America Has Overreacted To Islamic Extremism

Religion and Politics

• Republicans Can't Stop Confusing Our Constitution With Their Bible
• Wisconsin Mayor Tells Agency Heads To Read and Discuss Book By Christian Author With City Employees--Paid for with taxpayers' money.
• Texas GOP Fights Catastrophic Wildfires With Prayer and Global Warming Denial
• If Religion Kills America There Will Be No Resurrection
  
• Why Evangelicals Hate Jesus

Fascism: Left Wing or Right Wing?--A history lesson.

Dichotomy

• 2008 Graduation Rates vs. 2008 US Presidential Election--Correlation isn't causation, but the coincidence is curiously captivating.
• Infographic: What Congress Would Look Like If It Really Represented America
• Left and Right

Let’s Not Be Civil--Bye-bye bipartisanship. As Steve Benen puts it, "Both sides have nutjobs; only one side thinks their nutjobs are sane."

Happy Administrative Professionals Day; Health at Work; The Onion; College Humor; Sony's Playstation Network Disaster

Happy Administrative Professionals Day

• Good News: Wasting Time on the Internet Makes You a Better Worker
• "The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise" Salon
• Try Saying...

Health at Work

• Going to the gym in a lunch-break makes you work better
• How to drop pounds with all-day activities, not exercise
• Valley Kidney Donor Fired From Job--"Donor says she failed to meet sales goals due to tests before surgery."

The Onion

• Supreme Court Overturns Bush v. Gore
• Rain Told To Go Away In 1986 Returns
• Everything Taking Too Long

College Humor

• Font Conference
• Street Fighter: The Later Years
• We Didn't Start the Flame War
• Web Site Story
• Motherf***ing Parking Ticket

Sony's PlayStation Network Disaster: What Happens Next?

Young? Need a Job? Join the Briefcase Brigades; Oily, BP; Taxes; Medicare; Your GOP at Work; PSN hacking

Young? Need a Job? Join the Briefcase Brigades--"On Wednesday, April 27th, when members of Congress are home for recess, we're going to their offices all around the country to demand they prioritize jobs over budget cuts."

Oily

• The scam behind the rise in oil, food prices
• Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq
• White House: Oil firm subsidies 'crazy' amid corporate profit reports

BP

• A year after spill, BP gives political contributions to GOP leaders
• BP To Cut Tax Bill By $13B But Won't Say What It's Paying IRS For 2010
• Leaked: 30,000 BP oil spill memos, emails and transcripts

Taxes

• The Public Overwhelmingly Wants It: Why Is Taxing the Rich So Hard?
• Pay Your Taxes? These 10 Companies Didn't.
• Undocumented Workers Pay More Taxes than Major U.S. Corporations
• America's Tax System In Just 72,536 Easy Pages
• Roseanne and Taxes

Medicare

• Poll: Taxing the rich favored over Medicare cuts--Tell that to Idaho Gov. Butch Otter.
• Republicans in Swing Districts Take Heat for Supporting Ryan's Medicare Plan
• Republicans Running for Cover After Budget Vote to End Medicare

Your GOP at work

• Sean Duffy gets peeved: "Let me tell you what. When you have your town hall you can stand up and give your presentation."
• Ensign Resigned to Avoid Testimony to Senate Ethics Committee
• Barton denies any ‘medical negative’ from mercury, smog, or soot pollution
• Michigan Solves Deficit By Forcing Foster Kids Into Thrift Store Clothes
• Florida Gov. Rick Scott behind a push to kill Citizens Insurance, documents show

PSN down due to "external intrusion," no news on fix, credit card security--The 5-day (and counting) outage has reduced many a gamer to tears. UPDATE: ArsTechnica reports that personal data has indeed been compromised. If you've used a credit card on the PSN, it's suggested that you cancel that ASAP.

Manning, Wikileaks, War on Terror; Wake up Jesus!

Manning

• WikiLeaks suspect Manning will be transferred from Quantico to Fort Leavenworth--"We just wanted to get him to a place... where his well-being and his care and his pre-trial confinement could be the very best we could provide." Yeah, right.
• The vindication of P.J. Crowley Salon
• President Obama speaks on Manning and the rule of law Salon
• Protestors interrupt Obama fundraiser to sing for Bradley Manning
• Dubya vs. Manning

Wikileaks

• WikiLeaks discloses new details on whereabouts of al-Qaeda leaders on 9/11
• Shep Smith: WikiLeaks Releases 'The Only Straight Answers We Get Any More'
• Assange vs. Zuckerberg

War on Terror

• The Guantanamo Files: Classified Files Offer New Insights Into Detainees
• Documents shed light on Tillman’s death
• The Kill Team--"How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them."

Wake up, Jesus!--So wrong in so many levels.

Israel and Palestine; The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science; Science vs. Religion; Happy Easter!

Israel and Palestine

• Palestinian Christians denied access to holy places in Jerusalem during Easter
• Israel intellectuals and artists back Palestinian state
• UN chief: Israel's occupation is 'morally, politically unsustainable'

The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science--How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and the vaccine-autism link.

Science vs. Religion

• The tantalising proof that belief in God makes you happier and healthier
• God's little rabbits: Religious people out-reproduce secular ones by a landslide
• Model predicts 'religiosity gene' will dominate society
• The History of Everything Timeline
• Bottled Water facts that Science WON'T tell you!
• Here there be dragons
• NASA Completes 52-Year Mission To Find, Kill God The Onion

Happy Easter!

• How God and the Devil Spend Their Time
• Jesus hung out with 12 guys and a prostitute
• Isn't Religion Fun?
• Any Questions?--Actually... there is.
• God hates what now?--There are so many parts of the Bible that should never be taken literally.
• The God Of Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob
• "I'm sorry if my insensitivity towards your beliefs offends you."

The Science of Men; Phallus-y; Male-factory

The Science of Men

• How to Drink Sperm to Become a Strong Man
• Men's taint-size correlated with fertility
• Male biological clock 'ticks too'
• Man Milk: It's Real
• Researchers discover baldness gene: 1 in 7 men at risk
• Daily sex 'best for good sperm'
• Study Links Gene Variant in Men to Marital Discord
• Men 'unhappy' with their bodies
• Bikini-clad women make men impatient--I want a study on bikini-clad men.

Phallus-y

• Dear Prudence... I've got a big problem
• Cop mistakes penis for gun
• Fake-piss-dispenser inventors busted
• Secrets of the Phallus: Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?
• Art of the Accidental Penis
• Masturbation Facts
• Elusive Release
• Great Danes
• This Day In History: The Invention Of The Handjob The Onion

Male-factory

• More Men Getting Plastic Surgery
• My wife didn't make that quilt. I did.
• MP Dominic Raab says men victims of discrimination
• It's Raining on Men: Balls Deep at the Conference on Male Studies
• Austerity style: Men of Britain, put down your hair gel