http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/lindsay_beyersteinArticles by LINDSAY BEYERSTEIN, aggregated by daylife.comen-usTue, 24 Nov 2009 05:06:02 GMTTue, 24 Nov 2009 05:06:02 GMTDaylife Betaken@daylife.comken@daylife.comhttp://www.undispatch.com/content/morning-coffee-23-november-2009Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- ...Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:26:14 GMThttp://www.undispatch.com/content/morning-coffee-23-november-2009TalibanFederal Bureau of InvestigationStanley A. McChrystalMohammad KhazaeeBarack Obamahttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/scientists-talk-smack-on-listervs-news-at-11.htmlReal Climate debunks allegations by global warming deniers that stolen emails from a closed climate science listerv reveal some kind of conspiracy.  Real Climate debunks allegations by global warming deniers that stolen emails from a closed climate ...Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:27:31 GMThttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/scientists-talk-smack-on-listervs-news-at-11.htmlhttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/obama-picks-perino-to-exemplify-a-free-and-professional-press.htmlObama nominated former Bush press secretary Dana Perino to the Broadcasting Board of Governors: President Obama has nominated George W. Bush's former press secretary Dana Perino for a post on the board overseeing government-sponsored international ...Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:20:05 GMThttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/obama-picks-perino-to-exemplify-a-free-and-professional-press.htmlBarack ObamaDana PerinoGeorge W. BushWhite HouseU.S. Senatehttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/sick-fucks-lose-cafepress-drops-pray-for-obama-pslam-1098-merch.htmlCafePress and Zazzle have wisely decided to drop user-designed merchandise bearing the slogan "Pray for Obama: Psalm 108:9"--perhaps because they've figured out that it's unseemly to do business with people laughing up their sleeve about killing the ...Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:54:50 GMThttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/sick-fucks-lose-cafepress-drops-pray-for-obama-pslam-1098-merch.htmlBarack Obamahttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/the-big-fat-undertaking-blogger-to-cook-through-blumenthals-fat-duck-cookbook-.htmlHats off to a blogger in the Netherlands who is cooking his way through Heston Blumenthal's bible of molecular gastronomy, the Fat Duck Cookbook. He's documenting his culinary odyssey at The Big Fat Undertaking. One of the early recipes he tried was ...Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:51:49 GMThttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/the-big-fat-undertaking-blogger-to-cook-through-blumenthals-fat-duck-cookbook-.htmlHeston Blumenthalhttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/eliminationist-wags-were-selling-bumper-stickers-that-read-pray-for-obama-psalm-1098-on-cafe-press-psalm-1098-reads-l.htmlEliminationist wags were selling bumper stickers that read "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8" on Cafe Press. Psalm 109:8 reads: "Let his days be few. Let another take is his office." The next verse is, "Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow." ...Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:40:39 GMThttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/eliminationist-wags-were-selling-bumper-stickers-that-read-pray-for-obama-psalm-1098-on-cafe-press-psalm-1098-reads-l.htmlBarack ObamaU.S. Republican Partyhttp://www.undispatch.com/content/morning-coffee-20-november-2009Welcome to Morning Coffee, brought to you by Lindsay Beyerstein with additional links from the UN Dispatch team. Every morning we survey foreign affairs and foreign policy news so you don't have to. We begin with the "Starting Five" items of the day -- ...Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:08:36 GMThttp://www.undispatch.com/content/morning-coffee-20-november-2009European UnionCatherine AshtonRoberto MichelettiHamid KarzaiBarack Obamahttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/a-botox-tax-is-kind-of-sexist.htmlLike Jill, I've got misgivings about the provision in the senate healthcare bill that would defray the costs of reform by levying a 5% tax on cosmetic surgery. In practice, a plastic surgery tax would be relatively economically progressive. Plastic ...Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:47:30 GMThttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/a-botox-tax-is-kind-of-sexist.htmlhttp://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/11/my-first-newsweek-story-senate-may-thwart-stupak-.htmlStupak Amendment, the senate bill, and what's next in the fight over abortion access under health reform. National abortion-rights advocacy groups were outraged when the House passed the Stupak amendment to the health-care bill. The amendment—named ...Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:09:09 GMThttp://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2009/11/my-first-newsweek-story-senate-may-thwart-stupak-.htmlNewsweekBart StupakNancy PelosiU.S. Democratic PartyU.S. Congresshttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/bad-mommies-jump-the-shark-mom-let-cop-taze-her-10yearold-daughter-.htmlThis story should put the annoying "bad mommy" confessional genre out of its misery. Nothing can top this. Bad mommies have officially jumped the shark: An Arkansas mom allegedly allowed a police office to taze her 10-year-old daughter because the ...Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:41:44 GMThttp://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2009/11/bad-mommies-jump-the-shark-mom-let-cop-taze-her-10yearold-daughter-.html