A Thousand Tiny Pieces

From BoingBoing: Star Wars as retold by someone who hasn't seen it.  So good.

Yay, Damages is back!  The first season was one of the best things on television last year (or so I thought), and woefully under-watched. I hope that the second season can live up to that great debut.

And as I head out on a camping trip in North Florida this weekend, Alternet's "Is Florida Just One New Development Away From Environmental Ruin?"

Heartbreaking.  Kids reflect on how Prop 8 has hurt their families.

"Caring Less When Suffering’s Greater." I've always thought this was an interesting question....basically, why does the collective "we" get more worked up about a baby that has fallen down a well, when there's a genocide going on somewhere?  I think the answer is complex and multi-part, but this article by Shankar Vendantam has some very interesting insights: "Slovic's research suggests that the central reason the United States has not responded forcefully -- and quickly -- to crises ranging from the Holocaust to the Rwandan genocide, from the ethnic cleaning that occurred in the 1990s Balkan conflict to the present-day crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, is not that presidents are uncaring, or that Americans only value American lives, but that the human mind has been unintentionally designed to respond in perverse ways to large-scale suffering."