Lunch Links for Monday, November 19

November 19th, 2007 by max linsky in News

+ Well this lede just writes itself: “Al Gore just won a Nobel Prize for teaching the world to think green, but he’s also showing he knows a thing or two about another kind of green: money.” The veep is stinkin’ rich, and he’s not running for squat. [newsweek]
+ Nice feature about a boxing gym in Port Charlotte still trying to recover from Charley. Why are boxing stories always so good? [ht]
+ This just in: People do bad things on the Internets. [chicago tribune via bh]
+ Who would win if the world was electing the next president? Ron Paul, of course. [who would the world elect via metafilter]
+ Another Taser-related death, this one in Jacksonville. [ht]
+ In case you missed it: Be sure to check out Eric Snider’s cover story this week on Richard Paey, a man with chronic pain thrown in jail for getting his meds. A can’t miss. [cl]


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