Rush better watch his back

Because Air America is now on the air at 950 AM here in Chicago, or everywhere over the internet in real audio. Here's the scorecard from what I've heard so far:

The O'Franken Factor: Good stuff, solid interviews
The Randi Rhodes Show: This was pretty bad. Mindless conservative bashing
The Majority Report: Very smart, Janeane Garofalo rocks. I thought her co-host blew for a while, but he got better (or I got used to him) as time went on.

I'm personally waiting for Chuck D's show -- that should be interesting.

MI5 is getting props for the arrest of eight men found with half a tonne of fertiliser in Britain. In Spain, authorities have issued five international arrest warrants for suspects believed to be involved in the attacks.

American officials are still hoping to find some WMDs in Iraq, calling it still too soon to judge whether they exist or not. The question is, when is it not 'too soon?' The ABC reports that the intent of future missions will focus on the 'intent' to produce WMDs rather than the WMDs themselves.

The Likud party will be holding a referendum in May on whether to approve Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan. Israel is looking for American approval over the security fence that's being erected between Israel and the West Bank, though a group of 100 senior IDF reservists believe that the security fence route will cause more problems than it will solve where it puts Palestinian farm land on the Israeli side of the border, which necessitates a large number of gates that are more difficult to secure. A group of Palestinians have issued a document against a group of Palestinian intellectuals calling for a peaceful solution, inciting Palestinians to continue the fight against Israel, a view that unfortunately reflects popular Palestinian opinion.

Also:
- Birds and humans have been found to share a similar gene that allows both to communicate.
- Scientists have now mapped the genome of rats, the third mammal after humans and mice.
- If you're getting in vitro fertilization done, you should consider doing it in the summer where it has been found to work better.
- Computer simulations suggest that Saturn's moon Titan has waves seven times as high as those on Earth.
- Psychologists at the University of California San Diego have found that dogs 'resemble' their owners.
- Martian seas were apparently 'creamy.'
- The Serbian government has approved a bill to provide financial compensation to war crimes suspects like Slobodan Milosevic.
- Consumer confidence is still falling, but not as much as some analysis expected.
- Ralph Nader seems to believe that he has many reasons to run for President that don't involve screwing over the Democratic party.
- Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe, especially in Belgium, France, Germany, Britain and the Netherlands.
- The Duma has passed a bill that will restrict a Russian citizen's ability to protest.
- The International Court of Justice has found that 51 Mexicans on death row in the United States had their rights violated, including not being told that they can have consular assistance.
- Gasoline isn't going to get cheaper any time soon, as OPEC announced that it will cut production.
- The NDP platform is heavy on the environmental protection.
- Here's a cool visual representation of Google News.