Murder the Whole Month of April Just to Take May Off

1. GAO Says Government Pesters Wounded Soldiers Over Debts — “It’s like, ‘Thanks for your service, and now you owe us.'” — Support the troops! Forgive the debt. This is a symptom of our money-centric definition of value. Blood and limbs are valuable, too.
2. Senate Panel Recommends Abolishing FEMA — Joe Lieberman . . . will offer “additional views” to the panel’s findings . . . accusing President Bush of failing “to provide critical leadership when it was most needed.” — No shit, Dick Tracy.
3. Medtronic to Pursue Major Clinical Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation as Depression Treatment — Interesting. But what is deep brain stimulation technology, anyway?
4. Latest Da Vinci mystery: judge’s own secret code — I fear getting lynched for saying this in polite company, but: To my mind, suing Dan Brown for plagiarism is kinda like complaining that OFFAL stole your plan for victory in Iraq.
5. An image. —