I thought I’d do the reader blogs early today, before anyone dips into their Four Loko stockpile. Dolphin Kazoo wonders if the Greeks will become Godless communists like the Cubans. Emily Hauser reports back from the Holy Lands. Cheryl Rofer says meet the arsenic boss, same as the phosphorous boss. Libby Spencer is angry that …
Arsenic and outer space old lakes
Suck on this, carbon-based life forms: At its conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe-Simon will announce that NASA has found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and …
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Last Word on Kerry
Goes to John Derbyshire (who must have a book to sell!): John Kerry is awful, and anything we can do further to degrade his political prospects is worth doing. But really, I saw a clip of him making the much-deplored remark, and it was obvious that the dimwit in Iraq that he referred to was …
So Now I Am A Liar…
Dean Esmay bloviating in his comments section: A) The administration and military establishment do not “routinely lie,” and B) Apparently, actual lies and agitprop by terrorist organizations are not worthy of anywhere near as much skepticism in John’s world as the “lies” of an administration he simply disagrees with sometimes. Whatever. Whatever, indeed. We won’t …
When Internets Attack
If you read slashdot, odds are that you’ve heard this story of scam artists getting their karmic reward. One rarely finds a better example of the internet living up to its full potential as a small-town lynch mob. As Luke Hutterman, creator of my RSS aggregator SharpReader points out, the difference between an enforcement agency …
Even More on WP
John Pike finally drives it home and says, on the pages of a national daily, what all this WP BS really is- anti- American propaganda: DESPITE EFFORTS to improve its image abroad, the United States has just suffered a damaging global propaganda defeat. And unfortunately, some of the wounds were self-inflicted. Three weeks ago, the …
About Damned Time
The military is FINALLY defending itself in regards to WP: The United States’ most senior general has defended the use of weapons containing white phosphorus in Iraq. General Peter Pace said that such munitions were a “legitimate tool of the military”, used to illuminate targets and create smokescreens. Two weeks ago, the US admitted using …