"The main cause of the red/blue divide, Bishop argues, is prosperity, which has given the American people the ability to reorder their lives around their tastes and values by moving to like-minded communities. The result is a country sliced and rearranged into red and blue communities — like children dividing on a playground." "If you leave here remembering only one number, let it be this one: $53 trillion ." Hee! "They want to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant ." SOME NEWS: * Supreme Court outlaws the death penalty for child rapists. * "Many of the diseases are typically associated with tropical developing countries but are surprisingly common in poor regions of the United States." * 20 questions for David Addington . ( EDIT: this is now, offically, a Top Read . ) * "For a movement that made its political fortune by lamenting the bogeyman of godless secularism, Obama is a singularly troubling phenomenon." * Obama asks donors to give money to pay off Clinton's debt . * Neat. Florida moves to restore the Everglades . * "How an obscure FBI rule is ensuring the destruction of irreplaceable historical records." * Release date set for the Coraline movie. Fact-checking the Cuban Missile Crisis ! Dubai plans to build wacky 'moving skyscraper.'