* The correlation between the quality of rock music and U.S. oil production.

* Remember this the next time somebody extols the “efficiency” of the private sector. When publicly-traded corporations are insulated from competition, as they are under our system, bad service is inevitable.

* Why Lou Dobbs is really leaving CNN.

* From the annals of innovative excuses for committing crimes.

* Were any dinosaurs omnivorous?

Filed Under: Links of the Day, on 11-12-09