Odds and sods

Here are a few links while I ponder Pennsylvania Avenue and Armageddon.

Walter Kirn's Up in the Air is being made into a film. Huzzah!

Bill McKibben says we better hurry with the global warming abatement or things are going to really start suckin'.

Speaking of suckin', take a look at the scary things one of John McCain's key advisers had to say about Georgia (Stalin's, not Jimmy Carter's.)

Do you want to hear more covers? Sure we all do. Have a gander at all these covers by Sonic Youth. The Beat on the Brat is quite good.