del.icio.us links for 2006-01-24

• The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2005: The worst of 2005, and You are on it. (evil humor politics rant)
• Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst: The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress starting in February, focusing on the secret electronic surveillance program and whether Mr. Bush violated the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. (bush congress evil fisa impeachment news nsa politics sploid surveillance us)
• CW network to replace WB, UPN in September - Jan. 24, 2006: Warner Brothers and CBS Corp. announced plans Tuesday for the creation of a new broadcast television network, called CW, that would replace the WB and UPN networks in the fall of this year. (media news tv us)
• SEC. 605. THE UNIFORMED DIVISION, UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE.: Part of PATRIOT Act renewal. New federal cops are coming your way from the Department of Homeland Security. (bush evil news politics us)
• Watch out, Oprah! Here comes Osama bin Laden's Book Club: William Blum's "Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" was ranked 209,000 on Amazon.com's sales list before bin Laden mentioned it in an audiotape released on Thursday. By Friday, the book was No. 30 on the Amazon.com list. (news terrorism weird)
• Unfathomed Dangers in PATRIOT Act Reauthorization - by Paul Craig Roberts: A provision in the "PATRIOT Act" creates a new federal police force with the power to violate the Bill of Rights: "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.'" (bush evil politics us)
• 2006 Withholding Calculator: Accurately compute the amount of money you need to give the Infernal Revenue Service in advance. (reference tax tool)
• Sploid: Alistair Cooke's bones give you syphilis?: Imagine receiving a letter telling you that the syphilis you've been battling may have come from a stolen bone that surgeons implanted in your back. (crime evil health news sploid us)
• Sploid: Study shows Left and Right equally dense: Both liberals and conservatives refused to view rationally information that didn't jibe with their personal biases. The parts of their brain that feel negativity shut down. Instead they received a rush similar to that of a junkie getting a fix. (news politics psychology sploid us weird)
• Sploid: Aussie whale puke worth $300K: An Australian couple has hit the jackpot with their find over 30 pounds of whale vomit, valued at $295,000, a.k.a. the chunder from down under. (australia news sploid vomit weird whale)