The bad news: President Bush Eliminates Funding for Reading Is Fundamental’s Historic Book Distribution Program Serving 4.6 Million Children (via silk_noir).

The good news: RIF makes it really easy to email your senators or congresspeople who haven't yet pledged to reinstate RIF's funding. In my case, that meant one of my senators (Diane Feinstein) and my district's representative (Susan A. Davis). Let's hope they see the light and decide poor kids deserve the dignity and empowerment that comes from having books of their very own.

Take books away from kids, we all lose. Give them books, we all win. Duh.

Shadow government entities gang-rape a woman, imprison her in a shipping container without food or water, lose the medical evidence proving she was raped, and deny the victim her right to seek recourse in a court of law.

It's Halliburton, of course.