[links] Link salad dodges drunks on the early morning sidewalks of Las Vegas

How Writers Build the Brand — (Via willyumtx.)

Gambling With Your Life — or: Why Las Vegas is the Suicide Capital of the U.S. — Hmm, I'll have to be careful out here.

The Joy of Researching the Health Benefits of Sex

ALIPAC: Democrats Want To Recruit Gay Immigrants To "Bring Down" America — More compassionate conservatism from those carefully rational intellectuals who make up the American Right. Or maybe it's just the Gay is coming! BTW, has conservative alarmism on any issue ever been proven right? Minimum wage? Interracial marriage? Decriminalizing gay sex? Tax increases? Anything?

He Won — Radley Balko on bin Laden's victory in transforming American society much to the worse.

Right Rushes To Praise Bush For Obama’s Order To Kill Bin Laden — Because, you know, Mission Accomplished. Heckuva job, Bushie.

The Muslim World Sounds off on Bin Laden’s Demise

?otD: What do you suppose the power bills are here on the Vegas strip?

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5/3/2011
Writing time yesterday: 1.0 hour (revisions to Kalimpura)
Body movement: 60 minute urban walk (the Vegas Strip)
Hours slept: 6.25 hours (interrupted)
Weight: n/a
Currently reading: Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea