Headlines from March 29, 2007

Senate approves the war-spending bill, and Bush renews his pledge to veto.
Maryland becomes first state to kick-off the de facto disbanding of the electoral college.
How to make a 75-year-old person's brain work like a 35-year-old's.
How Wal-Mart enforces its "bare-knuckled no-expense-spared investigations of employees who break its ironclad ethics rules."
Morality is not the right language. The more than 130 million people who shop at Wal-Mart each week, they'd be insulted by that frame.
Op: To slightly extrapolate, most Germans see destroying Israel as no big deal.
Iran dislikes Britain's attitude, such as raising a "ballyhoo" in the press, and may not release the woman sailor.
Turkey would have preferred Chirac's going-away present from the E.U. not to depict the defeat of the Ottoman empire.
California to blame for most moral evil in the western U.S.
Speaking of combatting evil: Dell to begin shipping Linux-equipped consumer machines.
In the information age, only a chump commutes to work in the city. And only a complete idiot actually lives in one.
Moral crime of painting Thailand's king earns 10 years in prison.
Video: Nothing evil about otters holding hands. (Though probably something wrong with Karl Rove rapping.)
Video selections from This American Life's second episode.
Sanjaya's advancement in American Idol as a precursor to the End Times.
Damage to space shuttle means NASA astronaut may unexpectedly set a new record for longest period spent in space.
Armchair semiotics as new Harry Potter cover revealed.
Bush bullies back on Iraq, and Pelosi turns on him for picking a fight (Reid, meanwhile, keeps it real).
New York D.A. Arthur Branch contemplates a run for president.
Iran makes the captured British troops "confess" on TV.
Zimbabwe undone: Loyalists turning disloyal, activists abducted and beaten, Mugabe jets to Tanzania to fight for his future.