Links and Minifeatures 05 08 Monday

Carnival of Investing



Carnival of Personal Finance Recommended: Insureblog



RINO Sightings Recommended: Pigilito Says



Carnival of The Capitalists Recommended: Membox

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Cool! Saharan Sand type Dunes Found on Saturn's Moon Titan



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Election manipulation in Yemen. Forged Voter Records. Assaulting and intimidating election monitors. All the usual suspects.



It's enough to make you grateful for our founding fathers all over again.



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Via LGF, The Corner reports that Scooter Libby's defense team supposedly has five folks who will testify Joseph Wilson told them his wife worked for the CIA.



So there's a strong possibility that the person who blew Plame's cover was Wilson himself? Oh, irony!



Do you suppose there will be any charges filed?



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Sorry about the lack of new stuff. I spent the weekend refinishing kitchen cabinets, which now look gorgeous (and they'll look even better when I put the doors back on and drawers back in), as a result of which I'm sitting here so sore it hurts to type. Belt sander and orbital all day Saturday, hair of the dog Sunday, which is to say manual sanding, followed by staining and varnishing. It's been nearly thirty years since I did that much of this sort of work.



My brother (who we told about our plans) had the gall to call while we were at dinner Sunday night about 7:30, and ask if there was anything he could do to earn some money. Well, not now. Saturday and Sunday, I'd have let him bring his laundry over and watch movies with the kids while Ramona and I worked, and probably even have paid him a few bucks to keep the kids out of the way. Or, I'd have paid him more to help me while Ramona watched movies with the kids. But with everything done but the re-assembly, which will take maybe an hour of easy work, he calls like he wants to earn money. I didn't bother to call him back, but if he were a politician, I'd predict a great future.