Still more disorder under heaven …

But getting my copy of More Scary Kisses in the mail today made up for a lot. And despite a really slow start this morning, I caught up and stayed on track eHow wise, so yay, me!
However, I need to go help TYG with a project, so just a few blog links:
•A NYT column on the recent Supreme Court decision that if cops knock on a wrong door without a warrant and someone inside appears to be doing something suspicious, they don’t need a warrant to bust in.
•Zombie attack? The CDC is ready!
•Reporter Jane Mayer looks at one of the Obama administration’s more prominent whistle-blowing prosecutions. Yes, the same Obama who said whistleblowers exposing fraud and corruption should be protected, not hounded (of course, he’s hardly the first leade to decide differently once he’s the one the whistle blows for).
•Some thoughts on bullying.
•Digby points out how broadly conservatives are defining government funding for abortion. Astonishingly, they never had any problems with W.’s assurances that giving churches money for secular programs would not in any way result in more funding for religious activities (okay, not so astonishing).
•The New Republic on the idea that we should be shopping for medicine just like breakfast cereal (something I hope to get to a full post on sometime).
•For something fun, Will Shetterly has now posted (with slight revisions) his complete Captain Confederacy series of 20 years ago online. The first alternate history I’m aware of that leapt from “what if the Confederacy won?” to “what would North America look like today?” The answer is a balkanized continent (Texas seceded from the CSA, most of the west never joined) in which Captain Confederacy is the superhuman face of Southern propaganda, using his powers to bust up Union subversive plots and thwart the Nego revolutionary Blacksnake. Then one day, tired of promoting an ideology he doesn’t believe in, the captain walks away … and trouble begins. Well worth reading.