Judicial outrage of the day, money and happiness, and today's articles

The judicial outrage of the day, via And Rightly So!: Confession May Be Tossed in Fla. Slaying. John Evander Couey actually told investigators detectives he kidnapped, raped and killed , and where to dig up the body of his victin, a 9-year-old girl, and that it was sick and "stupid" to kill her. Now he may walk. In other sex offender news, Abdallah Ait Oud, a 38-year-old convicted paedophile, has been arrested for the murder of two stepsisters in Belgium. If Couey walks we know what will happen next.

At the blogs
Jawa is back

Money and happiness
Via Maria, here's another study saying that Money Does Not Buy Much Happiness. The study puts the cart before the horse by saying that

According to government statistics, men who make more than $100,000 a year spend 19.9 percent of their time on passive leisure activities such as watching television and socializing. Meanwhile, men whose annual income were less than $20,000 spent more than 34 percent of their time dedicated to passive leisure.

I dare speculate that the reason the guys are making $100,000+/yr is because they aren't spending more than a third of their waking hours loafing around.

Today's other articles from Maria
At Real Clear Politics, Bush's Decency Highlights Democrats Incivility while Rosa Brooks of the LA Times is asking Did Bush commit war crimes?

Call me Gilraen
Via Beth, Elvish Name Generator. That's Elvish, not Elvis.