* An excellent defense of Hannah Arendt.

* While pensions for workers are going down, pensions for executives are going up–a fine example of the market rewarding failure.

* Christopher Lee has been knighted. Fun fact: Christopher Lee was in Special Operations during World War II, but his missions are still classified. That’s a subject ripe for some movies, I think: Young Christopher Lee vs. Nazi Zombies!

* The secret to happiness.

* Steven Taylor schools the Wall Street Journal on the Honduran coup.

* Obama is just as popular now as he was when he was elected.

* Science is now so cool, it can determine how many humans a lion ate over 100 years ago.

Filed Under: Links of the Day, on 11-03-09