Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
In today’s science blogging, we report on a French civil servant with a giant hole where his brain should be.  Seriously.  Here’s a picture of his brain:

FWIW, the doctors were able to drain the fluid from the hole, but they couldn’t treat the underlying condition.  He remains a French civil servant.

By Mona
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Greenwald has a great find, the title of his post indicating what it is: Bush’s 2001 condemnation of Russia’s human rights abuses. (Brief ad click through.) These are some:

* Authorities continued to infringe on citizens’ privacy rights. Government technical regulations that require Internet service providers and telecommunications companies to invest [...]

By Thoreau
The White House has just issued an executive order to freeze the assets of anybody undermining US efforts in Iraq. Since they always say that those who criticize the war aren’t “supporting the troops”, what’s to stop them from coming after bloggers?
Yeah, I’m probably being paranoid.

“It never ends, Adrian.”

Maybe the constitution is a suicide pact after all – that is, according to the Bush Administration, it is a note that prescribes its own undoing.
Rozell, the George Mason professor and authority on executive privilege, said the administration’s stance “is almost Nixonian in its scope and breadth of interpreting its power. Congress has no recourse [...]