Daily Oddities, July 23rd, 2009

We’ve got lots to talk about today, so lets get right down to the real serious stuff.
Globe: Things still really suck for EU little cousins Bulgaria and Romania, where infighting, corruption and graft are making it difficult to get anything done. Vote-buying, which we’ve mentioned before, is easy when your political power is less valuable [...]

Swine Flu, Day 3— (news) fatigue and (24/7) general malaise

The American public, it seems, is already exhausted by our (possible) pandemic. Even as HuffPo breaks the glass on their emergency 72 point font, people are suffering the first symptoms of Swine Flu fatigue. That is, in the weekend since H1N1 entered the national consciousness, our constant tumblring and retweeting, digesting and regergitating has produced [...]

Swine Flu (why Twitter is your worst nightmare)

Mexican soldier hands out masks in the DF

Are you terrfied yet, motherfucker? Well, if you’ve been following Twitter or the increasingly rabid  homepage of  the Huffington Post, you would be.
As a CDC junkie (and a regular reader of Morbidity and Mortality weekly) , I would love to get into the nitty gritty of this disease–how [...]