American Social Mobility

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1579981

Apparently social mobility in America is lower than all developed countries besides the UK. I wonder if any has done, or even if it’d be possible, to do a study on the trend over the past 100-200 years.

Plus check out newsweek international:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3037881/site/newsweek/

Apparently everyone else in the world is worried about losing Afghanistan, but America is interested in Annie Liebowitz’s Life in Pictures.

BTW, Project Runway is nearing its season finale, and I could not be more excited.

Day Break

DAY

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/09/27/BL2006092701022.html

Good analysis of the “debate” coming from the White House.

Also Olbermann does a recap on what Bush’s counterterrorism:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/27/keith-olbermann-takes-a-look-back-at-bushs-first-months-in-office-leading-up-to-911/

My brother thinks this was all part of the 9/11 conspiracy, but I think that the Bush administration really was focused on missile defense and Iraq, as opposed to terrorism.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060928/ap_on_he_me/kazakhstan_hiv_city

In my country we have problem, and that problem is the AIDS :-/ (Happier note: Borat documentary out Nov. 3rd)

Kalmykia

I didn’t even know Europe had a Buddhist country:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmykia

Although I guess it’s actually part of the Russian Federation. Check out this gem about its president: “Ilyumzhinov’s election platform for the presidency of Kalmykia included a promise of a mobile phone for every shepherd and the affirmation of his belief that he had previously been abducted by aliens.“

From Bad to Worse

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-letter20sep20,1,226790.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true

The sad side of the Iraq war.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060924/ap_on_re_eu/britain_afghanistan

Also the war in Afghanistan is still not over. Interesting overview of communist Afghanistan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Afghanistan

I had never seen the whole thing, but the AHA video is messed up.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u0R7dvLAiP8