-Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver, a poor kid with with no dental coverage, died of an abscessed tooth.
-There was a break-in over the weekend at New Hamshire Democratic Party headquarters in Concord. Five weeks earlier, the NHDP headquarters in Manchester were broken into. The Manchester thieves didn't take anything, but the Concord burglars took laptops and other equipment. If I had the raw data, I'd like to sit down and calculate the odds of either of these buildings being getting an ordinary criminal break-in this year, relative to the crime rates in their respective neighborhoods. The odds of both of them getting hit are easy to caluculate from there. Rare coincidences happen, but I'd like to know exactly how rare this coincidence is supposed to be.
-The number of severely poor Americans is growing, according to an analysis by McClatchey Newspapers. More Americans now live in severe poverty than at any time in the past 32 years. Severe poverty is roughly equivalent to in income of $5000/year for an individual or 10,000/year for a family of four.
-TechPresident has an interesting post on the coming MySpace wars of '08. Will candidates seek and destroy favorable/unfavorable pages on MySpace?
-Where does John Edwards stand on immigration?
Update: Hunger kills 18,000 kids each day, and nearly 1 billion people go to bed hungry every night, the head of the UN Food Agency reports. [HT: ChrisR]
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