Not feeling real bloggy right now,

I'm not feeling real bloggy today, so here's some stuff I found interesting Sunday reading.

The Bush talking with anti-global warming hero Michael Crichton is getting too much blog space today.

The NYTimes has a great article on a Kentucky coal mine trying to bring in "Hispanic workers," because the "work ethic of the Eastern Kentucky worker has declined from where it once was."

And this AP article is one of those now standard "list every bad event in Iraq today" articles. It's long. Another really good source for daily Iraq events that don't make the main headlines is Dancewater's Today in Iraq. Take a look, you'll see what I mean.

Muslims in Indonesia tried to storm the US embassy there, ostensibly over 'the cartoon', but does anybody believe that's waht this is about anymore? In the same article, Pakistan had to seal off Islamabad to prevent a major protest there, and they still had to fire tear gas and live rounds to disperse the people who made it through.

The Republicans have decided to do the old foot drag on lobbying reform. I guess when you're the ones who set up the current corrupt system, you're abit hesitant to let your fundraising advantage go.

One of our top oil suppliers, Nigeria, is edging ever closer to an open civil war.

Finally, the last page of this Newsweek roundup article on Cheney's shooting has an interesting look back at Cheney's influence and actions including that he ordered the shoot down without Bush on 9-11.