Morning Constitutional – Monday, 22 March 2010

Good morning, everybody. Borat got married, Rosie wants to come back, and there\’s going to be a new Shel Silverstein book. Now, on to your morning constitutional:

\”We proved that this government—a government of the people and by the people—still works for the people,\” President Obama said last night, as the House of Representatives, in a 219-212 vote, passed the Senate health care reform bill. In a separate 220-211 vote, they additionally sent a package of changes to the Senate. The Times has some details on the contents of the bill. Reuters weighs in as well.

The Times also has a story of how we got to this moment.

Did Viacom secretly upload its own content to YouTube, turning to sue YouTube for copyright infringement for having its content online? Zahavah Levine, YouTube Chief Counsel, thinks so.

In New York City, bake sales now feature Pop Tarts and Doritos because homemade goods have been banned.

At Radical Cartography, an incredible collection of statistical maps from the 1870 census.

Girls! Girls! Girls! Great entry by Tony Judt at the New York Review of Books Blog.

Ret. Gen. John Shaheen said at a Senate hearing on allowing gays to serve openly in the military that Dutch leaders told him that the presence of gay soldiers had contributed to the Bosnian massacre at Srebrenica.

Tracking a century of American eating. Interesting data from the USDA\’s Economic Research Service.

General Motors, California, and the coming trillion-dollar pension crisis.

And, in happier news (at least to my balding friends), those who are balding before the age of 30 are less likely to develop prostate cancer.