Travel Notes: Avoid Gulf Of Aden, Moldova, Anyplace Italian
Somali pirates love to seize ships off the African coast. Their latest victim: a Danish-owned, American-operated container ship. [ Reuters ]
The earthquake in Italy appears to have killed at least 250 people. [ UPI ]
Moldova, have you heard of this place? Little country between Romania and Ukraine? Do not visit there, because they just held an election where the Communists won a suspiciously high percentage of the vote and now people are protesting and generally restless. [ BBC News ]
Nobody really cares so much about gay marriage, as far as animating political crusades go, because they are more worried about starvation/homelessness. [ Christian Science Monitor ]
Google doesn't hurt newspapers. Newspapers hurt newspapers. [ Triangle Business Journal ]
Senators and congresspeople from defense spending-dependent areas do not care so much for the new budget proposed by Robert Gates, who appears to hate the military as much as a common Democrat. [ New York Times ]