"Hot" off the Press: Über busy lately edition

I have been really busy the last couple weeks and unable to peruse the headlines as much as I usually do. So I am posting this shamefully short list of article links to get it out of my post queue.

The BBC explains the worldwide "pension conundrum": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11281670.

A Russian governor who posted a photo of an earthworm crawling across his plate at a state dinner in the Kremlin has been derided by top officials: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,723135,00.html.

Here's a peek at John Robert's America after Citizen United, as if you have not turned on a TV in the past two weeks: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/john-robertss-america/?ref=opinion.

"Efforts to Prosecute Blackwater Are Collapsing": http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/world/21contractors.html?_r=1&hp.