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According to reports from both NPR and MSNBC, Supreme Court Justice David Souter has notified the White House of his intention to retire from the court at the end of the current term.

Over at the Christian Science Monitor, Jimmy Orr lets us know what the Republicans are up to and, in the process, wins this week’s prize for Most Snarkily Accurate Title: “Republicans are mounting a comeback (just like the Detroit Lions)”.

Gilt Goods is a discovery over at 1000Markets, an etsy-like conglomerate indie artisans. I enjoy the strong line drawings and whimsical accents. I quite enjoy the designer’s project-based flights of fancy as well. Have a look.

Michael Steele is still the head of the RNC and a good chunk of the Republican party remains unhappy about this fact. To the point that they’re trying to take financial control out of Steele’s hands:

Bank of America shareholders are having their annual meeting in North Carolina today and their itinerary includes a vote as to whether the board- including chairman and CEO Ken Lewis- should keep their jobs following the disasterous (and muddy) Merrill Lynch deal. I’m working on a longer post about the vote and Merrill that I’ll put up after the meeting is over but I thought this spoke to the mood in the room:

Earlier this month, the UK charity Women’s Aid released a domestic violence PSA starring Keira Knightley. The ad, intended to be shown in theaters and on television, features Knightley leaving a film set and coming home to an abusive partner. She walks into the apartment, finds a broken mirror and offers her partner a towel for his injured hand. He throws it in her face.

In a move that’d been rumored in recent weeks, Arlen Specter’s crossing the political aisle.

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Love and Maths: Sam Jones of FT links David Li and his (ultimately disastrous) Gausian copula formula to death by heartbreak.

As the swine flu death toll in Mexico mounts and U.S. officials go into pandemic mode, we learn that — surprise, surprise — the Republicans decided we didn’t need any of that silly pandemic preparedness and stripped $900 million out of the stimulus bill that had been earmarked for just that. And the Democrats let them.