A WITNESS LIES, THE COURT SHRUGS, and veterans are outraged.

JAMES COOPER: The Fed is Playing with Fire as it Tweaks Inflation.

THE HILL: With Kirk’s Swearing In, GOP Formally Claims Obama’s Old Seat.

MARCIA MORRISSEY: Give Thanks In All Circumstances.

Somebody tell the NFL.

WHOOPING COUGH OUTBREAK stalking New York’s north country.

MICHAEL S. MALONE on how Silicon Valley got its name.

RADLEY BALKO: The Nation Posts a Narrow Apology. And Publishes Another Error.

THE CYBER MONDAY DEALS aren’t over just yet.

UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!

CHANGE: Comcast Starts The Ball Rolling That Kills All-You-Can-Eat Internet Access. “As web video — which uses a lot of bandwidth — grows in popularity, Comcast will want to get paid more. Especially because web video is eventually going to replace a lot of the video you’re currently watching on cable TV, and that you’re paying Comcast a fat monthly bill for.”

JOHN STEAKLEY — the author of Armor, not the former student of mine by the same name who sometimes emails this blog — has died.

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Last year’s interview with John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War and many others, is now up on YouTube.

THE GROWTH OF collaborative consumption.

FIRST-HAND REPORTING from Taiwan’s elections. “Taiwan’s midterm election was marred by a bizarre assassination attempt against KMT politician Sean Lien — either a conspiracy or a case of mistaken identity, depending on whom you talk to.”

JOHN ONDRASIK’S CD For The Troops IV is now out. (Bumped).

NORTH KOREA could make two nuclear bombs per year.

CHANGE: Scientists Find A Way to Partially Reverse Aging In Mice. Faster, please.

ORGANS MADE FROM SCRATCH: “Building blocks” containing gels turn cells into different types of tissue.

ANOTHER BIG-SCREEN TV FOR CHEAP. 47″, 1080p, under six hundred bucks. They’ve really gone from luxury goods to commodity items over the past year or so. Which is a good thing!

PHIL BOWERMASTER: Life Expectancy 200 And Beyond. Er, faster, please?

TRANSPARENCY! White House Refuses to Release Donors to David Axelrod’s Charity. Well, they’ll probably show up on Wikileaks anyway. Everything else does . . . .

FASTER, PLEASE: Vaccine Prevents Colon Cancer Recurrence.