This is the best we could do? I love my people over there, but this looks like, I don’t know, nothing of the VIBE standards I recall.*pours out a little liquor* Clearly we got this from RR.

The deets…

There was a coup d’etat in Honduras! Well, according to Anastasia O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal – it really wasn’t. Read Up! {WSJ}

In China, the plan to equip all new computers with internet-filtering software has been delayed, but is still underway. Hopefully we aren’t on their blacklist, lol. {BBC}

The Sotomayor debate rages on… [WP]

Swine Flu “parties”? Are they serious? People are dying from this and you’re having swine flu parties? [BBC]

Rescuers have managed to find one child survivor in the Yemeni airlines crash that happened yesterday. {NYT}

Last week, I got on cats about using condoms and getting tested for HIV. You’re welcome.

This week, I’m on to other things. You see, I think that so many of the problems that ail urban communities require a special balancing act that we’ve long struggled with: the push and pull between personal responsibility and taking care of the community at large. Since I implored you to handle your individual business last week, I figure it’s time to fry some communal fish.

I’m on, like, every cause list there is—seriously, I feel as if I’ve signed petitions for everything from gay rights (marry who you want!) to immigrant rights (ripping apart families is abhorable!) to reproductive rights (get your hands off my uterus!). Why do I sign? Because I believe there is strength in unity. This week, I was hit with a ton of health-related info, and I have to pass it on and ask you to take action on the bigger-picture issues that matter to you. Here goes:

Cheaper isn’t always better: We’ve heard a lot of awful stuff about how Walmart treats its workers, but let’s be real: it hasn’t stopped you from shopping there. (more…)

This is pretty much the only couple I cared about in attendance…thx Socie!

Wallabies are getting high in Australia and making all types of trouble:

“Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around “as high as a kite”, a government official has said.

Lara Giddings, the attorney general for the island state of Tasmania, said the kangaroo-like marsupials were getting into poppy fields grown for medicine.”

Roll one up, it’s Monday.

Stoned Wallabies Make Crop Circles