Oddments: Third worldization edition

• Touchscreen voting machines aren't the only Venezuela/US bond these days.  A law just passed giving the Venezuelan government control over radio and television broadcasting.  [AP]
• The Canadian Supreme Court officially redefined marriage, approving a bill legalizing gay marriage.  [CP]
• Siting principles, Bush has flat-out refused an increase to payroll taxes -- an effort to save Social Security.  Bush nor Mcclellan have offered any answers as to where the trillions needed to save the program will come from.  [AP]
• Oh-my-God stop the f*cking presses -- Al Sharpton was paid by the Kerry camp!  Why is this news?  [AP]
• The House has approved the 9/11 intelligence bill.  This should get really interesting once we start reading through the 600 pages that weren't submitted until yesterday afternoon.  [WP]
• "I am an innocent man, convicted of a crime I did not commit... I have been persecuted for 12 years for a crime I did not commit", were the final words of Cameron Todd Willingham as he was tied down and executed in a Texas prison.  As it turns out -- he was telling the truth.  [Chicago Tribune]