Wonkette
- Will conservative advocacy groups start hollering about California’s gay-marriage ruling to turn out the Republican base this fall? And this time around, will anybody actually care? [New York Times]
- In China, individuals are making big financial donations to earthquake aid rather than waiting for the state to pay for everything. [Washington Post]
- Chinese schools collapsed while other buildings stayed standing, prompting questions about whether the skinflint government is to blame for the deaths of thousands of innocents. [Reuters]
- Poor Hillary. [Washington Post]
- Ben Bernanke has a secret cabal of economists he keeps in Princeton to study financial bubbles. Their big conclusion: they wish they had invested in tech in the 90s. [Wall Street Journal]
- Thanks, fatties! You are responsible for global warming. [Reuters]
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