The Peruvian faith healers have finally made their endorsement for the US presidential election: they’re backing Obama.
“Obama is growing stronger, I’ve seen that he has the spiritual support of Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy to protect him,” Juan Osco, president of the Apus-Inka healers association, told The Associated Press. “He’s going to win.”
So there you have it. We can all rest easy now.
The program for a supermajority. (Crooked Timber)
Ctrl-Alt-Del. (Robert Cringley)
Florida woman goes to jail over $7.45 bill. (AP)
Inconsistency irks with letter of the law. (Football365)
Reviving the fine art of cafe culture. (The Irish Times)
European economic weather map. (FT.com)
Group says US used Ethiopia for dirty work. (The National)
And special mention for behind-the-times headline of the day:
Greens, greens, they’re good for your heart: study (AFP)
Diets worldwide that are rich in fried and salty foods increase heart attack risk, while eating lots of fruit, leafy greens and other vegetables reduces that risk, a groundbreaking study showed.
(The study was groundbreaking because it included developing countries, but this information is buried in the story.)
Again, the bar on politics comes into play. However, CNN has a nice little backgrounder on the Zimbabwean president, who was once (and still is to many) a hero.
Gavin is ably dissecting the complicated mess that is Bertie Ahern’s financial past. To help better navigate these murky waters, he has set up a wiki at MahonTribunal.com.
Gavin is understandably irked at Bertie Ahern’s doings, so he’s set up a Facebook group urging our glorious taoiseach to resign.