Links of the Day, December 21

News Senate Democrats unite for a momentous health care vote!! Iranian reformist Ayatollah Montazeri passes away. His funeral is an occasion for more protests. Copenhagen gets mixed reviews. Miscellaneous A heart-warming Christmas tale: a woman abandoned as a baby twenty years ago finds the people who found her.

Links of the Day, December 18

News Barack arrives in Copenhagen and calls for an agreement to be reached. Miscellaneous (Perennial) U.S. Senate candidate Andy Martin "outs" Wikipedia as pro-Obama, protosocialist and a tax-exempt scam. Stranger than fiction. Photo enhancement: mundane in TV shows and movies but sort of impossible in real life: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]

Links of the Day, December 17

News Expectations in Copenhagen are muted. The labor market is slow to heal. The House passes a jobs bill. Just. Miscellaneous Jon Stewart blasts a tea party rally … incidentally, I walked past this rally.

Links of the Day, December 8

For those of you who missed the last couple Links, apologies–I was in New York City for the weekend. Pics to come soon. News More bombings in Iraq. Ambassador Eikenberry and General McChrystal endorse the President’s approach to Afghanistan. Google launches real-time search data. Green The UN declares the last decade the warmest on record. …