6/21: Morning Communique

[CITY PAGES BLOGS]

Bob Smith discusses the disastrous effect the smoking ban has had on local businesses at No Force No Fraud.

[THESE DAYS]

Google Inc. this year plans to offer an electronic-payment service that could help the Internet-search company diversify its revenue and may put it in competition with eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Researchers speculate that time travel can occur within a kind of feedback loop where backwards movement is possible, but only in a way that is "complementary" to the present.

Saddam Hussein likes Doritos, washes his hands compulsively and thinks fondly of the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan, according to American soldiers who guarded him and tell their story in the July issue of GQ magazine.

[MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY]

Truth in advertising: The Blog of the Moderate Left

[TIME WASTERS]

Join Operation Yellow Elephant to encourage young neocons to enlist in the war they support.

Keep your eyes on the skies as the lowest-hanging full moon in 18 years will be on display this week.

Former S Club 7 popster Rachel will help you through a testicle check.

[FREEDOM OF SPEECH]

"Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."