I am not really a big fan Ann Coulter, although I do have a soft spot for people who can, with just a few words, send our friends on the left into fits of apoplexy (Rush Limbaugh comes to mind, Zell Miller is another), but since the moment Harriet Miers was nominated for the Supreme …
Rita Damage Estimates
This is fabulous news: Hurricane Rita has the potential to flood an area almost twice the size of New Orleans when it reaches shore early Saturday, causing tens of billions of dollars in damage to the Houston metropolitan area and plunging yet another major Gulf Coast metropolis into disarray. A study performed last year by …
Learning From the Past
This seems positive: two developments that could help avoid a recurrence of last year’s influenza vaccine shortage, the government yesterday said it approved a new flu shot and took a step toward allowing a major flu-vaccine supplier to resume distribution in the country. Only two manufacturers sold flu vaccines in the United States last year, …
This is Great
You gotta love Drudge- where else would you find stuff like this: NASA’s mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust – it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer. Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater …
The Belgravia Dispatch
I know that the War on Terror is serious business. I know that there are some pretty bad people housed in Guantanamo. I know that the detainees are trained to lie about abuse. I know that, in general, the detainees are treated extremely well, with many gaining weight. I know that we need to use …
The New “It” Diet
Forget the Zone. Screw the South Beach Diet. Nix the Atkins Diet. I want whatever diet plan Jason Giambi is on: Before After And it had NOTHING at all to do with steroid use. Sign me up!
Another Notch
I guess we can add NASA and space policy to the ever-growing category titled: “Things Josh Marshall Knows Nothing About But Feels Very Comfortable Talking About at Length.” I will let Rand Simberg, no partisan grenade thrower, explain why: So how do supposedly competent commentators get it so wrong? Well, in the case of Joshua …