links for 2007-07-28

Nope, it's not in the Onion.

Getting dirty...

"If you believe that water flows uphill and fish have wings, then Asian stocks can keep rallying and ignore the expanding housing and credit problems spreading out from the U.S.,"

Nooooooo! The Bethlehem Club has closed! (Side note: I've long thought that Lehigh should purchase this and make it an alumni club.)

"I'd argue that it was central spark to launching a movement that has now acquired extraordinary popular groundwell." I'd argue that the Nation, and vanden Heuval in particular, *LOVE* to take credit for "sparking" movements of all sorts.

Yeah, I was gonna say, blaming this redesign on the Chicago Tribune isn't quite right. All Tribune properties now sport this lackluster design. You can't tell the different between chicagotribune.com and my hometown paper, mcall.com.