29 March 2007: Afternoon By The Morning News — 29 Mar 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.
