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Disgraced Enron founder Lay dead. “Ken Lay, the disgraced founder of Enron Corp. who was convicted in May on charges of fraud and conspiracy, has died… of a heart attack at a family home in Aspen, Col.”

of a well-oiled (and certainly well-funded) astroturf campaign: Hands Off the Internet
and it’s subsidiary site, dontregulate.org. Nothing like fake grassroots advocacy to get the creative juices flowing!

about the US NSA wiretapping stuff, but last week Boing Boing published a great excerpt of a William Gibson interview in which he commented on the story: William Gibson on NSA wiretapping. Pithy quote: “…there aren’t many people really shocked by this. Our popular culture, our dirt-ball street culture teaches us from childhood that the CIA is listening to *all* of our telephone calls and reading *all* of our email anyway.”

an extended excerpt of the new book, “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush,” by Eric Boehlert. It’s a scathing critique of the media’s handling of the run up to the Iraq war. Well worth a read, particularly the parts about Judith Miller at the NYTimes.

was high about Neil Young’s upcoming protest album, and the most predictable nay-saying followed a pretty facile script: Neil Young is a drug-addled loser who clearly doesn’t know much about anything, blah blah blah. Today’s Video Dog clip with Young from some entertainment show clearly demonstrates that nothing could be further from the truth were Neil Young is concerned.

is a physician and a long-time blogger who alerted readers today about states that are considering enacting so-called “Right of refusal” laws for physicians. Or, as he so aptly put it, “right to bigotry and discrimination” laws. The idea being bandied about is that physicians and allied health care professionals will be legally permitted to determine which parts of medicine/nursing/pharmacy they wish, independent of considerations such as, say, professional responsibility. Personally, I would strip any pharmacist or physician who refused to perform any approved procedure of their ability to continue to practice. Immediately.