Maggie's Farm

If we're tossing out links while NJ is on his hunt, this article on the impending matriarchy in America (h/t Instapundit) is pretty interesting:

http://reason.com/news/show/124402.html

Chess champ Bobby Fischer has passed away:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080118/D8U89EC80.html

If you haven't seen the movie "Searching For Bobby Fischer", toss it in your Netflix queue.

And this is kind of an odd story. On one hand, the pilot was certainly heroic in landing a commercial airliner that had lost power, but he didn't warn the passengers they were coming in for a crash landing, so none of them braced themselves, resulting in a number of small injuries and a whole shitload of panic:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/01/18/i-ve-lost-power-i-ll-glide-her-in-89520-20289245

And if any of you know any self-proclaimed "vegetarians", you might be interested in this:

http://www.dr-mercury.com/tb/tbbeady.htm

Growing up in the counterculture S.F. Bay Area, I've known lots of vegetarians over the years, and, by far, most of them fit into the above category.