Seen Around the Internets

From a few news sites amidst the series of tubes:

Nobody knows what gas prices will climb to this Spring. $3.40 to $4 per gallon or higher. Nobody has a fraking clue, beyond "up".

A woman whose insurance company dropped her coverage while she was being treated for breast cancer, won a $9 million award. This was an arbitration award. I gather if the case had been tried, you might add a zero to that number.

If you want to see Lenin (what's left of him) resting in his mausoleum, you have about two years to get to Moscow. The Russians plan to finally bury him in 2010. Of course, this story crops up from time to time and they never get around to burying him, so take your chances.

The costs of hurricane damage doubles every ten years or so because more and more idiots move to Florida.

A visit to the Torture Museum in Prague, as contrasted to torture as practiced by the Bush Administration.

How the coal companies are destroying West Virginia to supply coal for Canadian power plants, among others.

Muammar Gadaffi's father may have been a French air force officer. Which would be like Ralph Nader's dad having been a GM executive. Anyway, Nader is even older than John McCain.

If this guy had operated on me, I'd be looking for him with a corkscrew and a .44.

The Department of Public Affairs at the Pentagon is nothing more than a cesspit of lying propagandists.