Oh the tangled links we weave when we link to inform.

He remembers a blast, the smell of smoke, oil and blood. He remembers ammo “cooking off”. He lost consciousness. – Circling the Moon

• Lawmakers Should Be at Least as Thoughtful About Abortion as Women Are – A compelling discussion of policy impacts on women and their life decisions.
• The Real Story – The actual story of how a CBS reporter got blown up in Afghanistan. A must read blog post.
• What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now – It turns out, the cocaine was redundant.
• Water and and Access: Arsenic in Bangladesh Aid agencies in Bangladesh dug wells without checking for heavy metals. Local residents had told the agencies that the wells wouldn’t be good. Agencies need to work WITH communities.
• The Reagan Revolution Comes Home To Roost – How conservatism kicked America in the gut, with charts!
• Leading Cornell Doctor Performing Genital Cutting – You mean you thought medically-unnecessary genital mutilation was only practiced by patriarchal religious sects on the little girls of some “other” culture? Wrong.
• Texas GOP platform – It’s a big Plate o’ Crazy.
• Rolling Stone’s McChrystal interview shows the magazine’s nonmusical side – The Post writes an article about the pop culture magazine that has consistently been out-reporting them for a while now. And it’s a good summary of why that’s the case.