Six In The Morning

1 INCREDIBLE VANISHING JOBS Canada lost 45,000 jobs in July. We've lost more than 400,000 jobs since the start of the recession. Unemployment is pushing nine per cent...and it would be higher if people hadn't given up. Yup, not good. (Globe And Mail)

2 COLLATERAL DAMAGE It wasn't an attack on Twitter and Facebook; it was an attack on a single Georgian activist blogger. Are the Ruskies to blame? (BBC)

3 GLACIER GLOOM A study reports U.S. glaciers are literally melting faster than ever. Meanwhile, assholes and the newspapers who publish them continue to make the case for a sick and dangerous do-nothing climate change agenda. (Guardian, Vancouver Sun)

4 PEDOPHILE PRIEST'S DIOCESE PAYS PRICE The Roman Catholic Diocese of Antagonish has settled a class action suit alleging a priest sexually assaulted young boys. The price tag: $13 million. (CBC)

5 ITCHY NERVES Armed with mice and experimentation, Science has identified itch-causing nerves--a discovery that could help people with skin stupidities like psoriasis, eczema and whatever. (Reuters)

6 DOTH WE SPAKETH TOO SOON? Aerosmith might be kaput after all. The Winnipeg show was cancelled (Leader-Post). I guess it's not surprising--us old folks know you wake up stiffer the second morning after an tumble. (Dirty joke: what do old men and young men have in common? They're both stiff the morning after a tumble.)