Right now I have 27 news and magazine articles in my queue to read, which normally wouldn’t be a problem except that every time I open my browser, thanks to the magic of Google Browser Sync they all open. Every single one. Needless to say, you can probably expect another of these link posts in the near future. Quite frankly, this one is on the whole sub par.

• A veterinary technician writes eulogies for all the animals s/he kills.
• What to do with your stimulus check.
• Q: What happens when a liberal activist and an evangelical conservative state legislator fall in love? A: Blog comity!
• Parthenogenesis!
• Prasong “Pak” Nurack, who has recently won a seat in the Thailand Senate, also had a restaurant in IC, the Thai Flavors Community Restaurant, that took took the community in its name seriously. The restaurant regularly held benefit nights for any charity that asked and was a model for civic engagement. Thailand couldn’t ask for a better Senator.