Anything but water

• A rant on tax cuts for the rich (funny! good!), a Wall Street banker (of modest salary) defends his industry. Grinzo also has a great rant on the cost of ignorance of fact and critical thinking (I'll post on my debate with Winonah Hauter of Food and Water Watch soon!)
  
  
• Central America is falling apart and deadly due to the toxic combination of underdeveloped government, narco-traffickers bringing cocaine to the US, and US guns and gangs in the area. The United States is responsible for 3 of 3. In the same issue, violence slows development (duh! but more than education, health, etc.)
  
  
• RETRIAL! Judges are more likely to deny parole (keep people in jail) when they are tired and hungry.
  
  
• Worried about hackers? "This is fun" is a very strong password. More here.
  
  
• Monsanto is guilty of false advertising: Roundup Ready DOES pollute soil.
  
  
• Three Cups of Tea (building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan) is mostly made up.