Things to Check Out - 10.17.07

Giddy up:

• Make a school better this week.
• Thanks to Boomer Entropy for a mention.
• And to the Tennessean.
• Oh, and to Ghia.
• Bloggers are going to jail.
• A conference in Montreal is trying to answer a very pressing question: Can the world stop genocide?
• And today's quote:

Mr. Jones then just shakes his head. You try that approach on people without jobs who live in neighborhoods where they’ve got a lot better chance of getting killed by a passing shooter than a melting glacier, you’re going to get nowhere — and without bringing America’s underclass into the green movement, it’s going to get nowhere, too.