links for 2008-07-13

• Washington Times - Obama downplays language 'land mine'
  you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish (GZE2 - Uhhh...no. How about French or Chinese?)
  (tags: politics news election obama)
• Washington Times - Former WH spokesman Tony Snow, 53, dies of cancer
  (tags: news)
• Algae spreading along China's Yellow Sea coast - Yahoo! Singapore News
  Chinese officials are also facing trouble on another front as swarms of locusts that left thousands of acres (hectares) barren in Inner Mongolia, threaten to descend on Beijing (GZE2 - Biblical proportions, I tell yas)
  (tags: china olympics news)
• China quiets a voice for quake victims - International Herald Tribune
  plainclothes officers intercepted Huang on the street outside his home and stuffed him into a car. The police have informed his wife and mother that they are holding him on suspicion of illegally possessing state secrets.
  (tags: china earthquake)