No time for fun and games; it's Monday's rant on the news you need:

Cyclone Larry batters Australia
And Cyclone Wati is on the way
Nepalese ‘Buddha boy' reappears–briefly
Milosevic never seen in coffin
Digging up the Skull & Bones connection
Secret unit's disturbing ‘Black Room' in Iraq
"The Psychology of Abu Ghraib: Elite Thought and Iraqi Prisoner Abuse" by Paul David Collins
Disillusioned troops come home to be spat at in the street
13 dead on eve of third anniversary in Iraq
Pink ‘iPods' for democracy
Or, "$8 million to friends of Sen. McConnell for high-tech boondoggle"
Former US President Bush asks China to support Citibank's bid for bank