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  Tinkerty Tonk: The back of the book had little news snippets, one of which was a reprint of some remarks by Vaclav Havel. Next to his name was an asterisk with an accompanying asterisk at the bottom of the page that informed the reader that Havel received an honorary degree from Columbia in 1990--just in case you wondered why the remarks of a worthless slob like Vaclav Havel were worth reprinting. (via Cosmos)

[Majorityreportradio.com] Majority Report Radio: Scalito Explained: He once penned a thriller set in Japan that a critic praised for its "storytelling skill" and "conspiratorial murmurs." Then, in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he earned the scorn of officials at the CIA and State Department for inserting unchecked, raw intelligence into speeches to vilify Saddam Hussein and boost the case for war. One hard-to-kill Libby favorite: the irresistible tale about how 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta had met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague five months before the hijackings.

 [Elementropy.blogspot.com] elementropy: 07/01/2005 - 07/31/2005: His pitching of lies, smears, and utter stupidity on WMDs amazed even veteran wingnuts, while his self-revising stance on the chickenhawk issue was so breathtaking that the whole league immediately copied his style. His neat, brilliant formulation which perfectly pigeonholed everyone from hippies to Thoreau to anti-nuke protestors as political reactionaries was such a masterful stroke of wingnut doublespeak that he was instantly made captain of his squad.

[Economicsroundtable.com] Economics Roundtable: With so many companies such as General Motors and Delphi reducing medical benefits, withWal-Mart's recent plans to cut healthcare costs by screening out high medical cost job applicants, with recent discussions about reducing the government's role in economic security, including healthcare, and with demographic realities in front of us, .

[Trinity.edu] Bob Jensen's Accounting Theory Quick Summary: in the case of a business combination that is an acquisition, IAS 38 builds on IAS 22: Business Combinations, to emphasise that if an intangible item does not meet both the definition and the criteria for the recognition for an intangible asset, the expenditure for this item (included in the cost of acquisition) should form part of the amount attributed to goodwill at the date of acquisition. This means that, among other things, unlike current practices in certain countries, purchased R&D-in-process should not be recognised as an expense immediately at the date of acquisition but it should be recognised as part of the goodwill recognised at the date of acquisition and amortised under IAS 22, unless it meets the criteria for separate recognition as an intangible asset;

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