BBC: if you haven't heard, people are voting in the US today
BBC: here's a map
Slate: making votes count. mostly.
Slate: which candidate would the constitution prefer?
Slate: the contents of the military budget
"As usual, it's about $200 billion more than most news stories are reporting. For the proposed fiscal year 2009 budget, which President Bush released today, the real size is not, as many news stories have reported, $515.4 billion—itself a staggering sum—but, rather, $713.1 billion.
Before deconstructing this budget, let us consider just how massive it is. Even the smaller figure of $515.4 billion—which does not include money for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—is roughly equal to the total military budgets of all the rest of the world's nations combined. It is (adjusting for inflation) larger than any U.S. military budget since World War II."
NYT: Afghan captive dies in Guantánamo; sheds unsurprisingly horrifying light on the detainee "process" that military budget would keep afloatBBC: last veteran of Iwo Jima dies
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