Stuff I learned on the Internet today

Some of this stuff I learned yesterday, but close enough.

1. What speaks louder than an all-out media blitz? Wire taps in which you are recorded trying to sell your vote for political donations. Nice move, Blago.
2. Pedipaws probably won’t solve my cat claw problem.
3. Sarah Palin has launched a political action committee, a harbinger of national politicking to come.
4. The House passed the economic stimulus plan, approving a spending package that’d support and expand a lot of social programs and get us in a deficit of heights unseen since World War II. Some of the best coverage I’ve read on it: What it’ll do; the politics behind it; which states will get what amount of money: a cool infographic
5. John Updike, brilliant author and fellow Pennsylvanian, died. Here’s a wonderful New Yorker blog on him, a compilation of remembrances written lovingly by other authors.

I wish I had learned more, but instead I got sick, came home early, took a nap and read a book. No worries, though. There’s always more learning to do tomorrow.