A couple interesting news items in view of today's date.

PIPA released the results of a 17-country poll yesterday asking people who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Fewer than half of the respondents (46 percent) thought Al Qaeda did it (what the hell, people); 15 percent said the U.S. was responsible, and 7 percent said Israel carried out the attacks.

That 15 percent bothers me more than the fact that less than half of the population knows who was responsible. If you haven't already, read Matt Taibbi's sick burn of the 9/11 truth movement. Page 2 is the best.

In addition, B'Tselem released a report today on Israeli apartheid.

There are some other things that could be said about free trade/state intervention in view of what happened to Haiti (328 dead, I think, last I checked) and the Fed rescue of Lehman brothers, but you can probably figure out where the hypocrisy lies.