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Bear mauls girl during mountain bike race: Grizzly suspected in attack along trail during 24-hour event in Alaska -- I honestly wonder if Stephen Colbert will mention this.

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Oh, Kroger, you fooled me with your "silverbrite" marketing. I will not be fooled again.

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Eisenhower, it all comes back to Eisenhower.

Truman had done a lot that conservatives disliked. The country had been Democratic for so long, citizens didn't know what the nation would be like without it. They had to have hungered for something new. So that's Eisenhower, whose most enduring legacy (the highway system) is contributing to global warming.

Americans were free before 1950. After that, the Pentagon, the CIA and all of their brothers were invented.

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The automobile came out around the same time the bicycle did. Had the bicycle had someone like a Henry Ford, would we be at this place?

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Why Can't The Networks Read Polls? -- A fantastic piece from DailyKos, mainly dealing with the differences between broadcast and online news.

Wesley Clark: Getting Shot Down Doesn't Qualify McCain for President -- Another fine analysis (w/clip).

9 in 10 see rising gas prices causing family hardship -- That's about everyone not earning $250,000 a year.

Persons of interest named in Calif. slayings of 4 -- this involved a NASA scientist

University of Michigan recalls lead-tainted bookmarks

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Surprising fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides -- "The high court's majority opinion made no mention of suicide. But in a dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer used the word 14 times in voicing concern about the impact of striking down the handgun ban."

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Abu Ghraib inmates sue contractors, claim torture