Songs for lesli_hannah on her move to California

Here are some random songs about California for your listening pleasure.

For Your Further Enlightenment XIX

• Mother Jones: "The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science"
• Salon: "A patriot's guide to still hating Obama for killing Osama: How dare this president take credit for the tireless work of George Bush and the power of torture?"
• Inside Higher Ed: "The Shirley Sherrod's of Academe?"
• Jane Mayer, The New Yorker: "Bin Laden Dead, Torture Debate Lives On"
• TechCrunch: "Here’s the guy who unwittingly live-tweeted the raid on Bin Laden"
• Paul Krugman, "Hume Day"
• The Daily Beast: "Why Osama bin Laden was not taken alive"
• Andrew Sullivan: "Sitting Is Deadly?"
• NPR: "Is the End Nigh? We'll Know Soon Enough" (What our contempt for critical thinking has wrought, Exhibit A)
• The Daily Beast: "The Right-Wing Talk-Radio Flameout"
• The Ticket: "McCain Ladies Feud with Glenn Beck" (As if you needed any further proof that Beck is a complete asshole. Hey, Glenn: you know what's ridiculous about your "fake vomiting session?" The fact that you are an ugly son of a bitch, that's what. The recession is ending and your fifteen minutes are up, Glenn. Now go fuck yourself.)