Sunday Linkblast - May 16

• A Nursing Diploma in Alberta offers a great future!
  ...somewhere else.
  
  
• 2010: The year the Republican Party came unglued
  A party captive to the craziest elements of its base.
  
  
• Conservatives catering to the theo-cons
  If they're this blatant in a minority what would a majority be like?
  
  
• Greece considering filing suit against Wall Street
  Like Iceland, at least part of their troubles came from deliberate economic warfare by short-selling hedge funds.
  
  
• Meanwhile activists in Ecuador suing Toronto Stock exchange over violence linked to Canadian mining companies
  Denied by the court but plaintiffs appeal.
  
  
• Beautiful reunion
  This is surprisingly touching - I almost teared up.
  
  
• Infants make moral judgments
  Concepts of right and wrong may be hard-wired into our brains from birth
  
  
• Sarah Palin wants terrorists to be able to buy guns
  Does that seem unfair? Tough.
  
  
• Israelis: Boycotts are illegitimate!
  ...except our brutal and total boycott on the citizens of Gaza.
  UPDATE: Academic boycotts are always illegitimate... unless they are by us on academics like Noam Chomsky who say things we don't like.