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People stealing my act, man. I mean, Pwnd, you know?

By Thoreau
Ever want to see the Director’s Commentary on a CIA interrogation video?

By Thoreau
One of the strongest criticisms of ethanol fuel (although certainly not the only one) is that the cheapest ethanol comes from the simple sugars in a plant, and ethanol derived from cellulose requires more complicated (and expensive) enzymes and processing.  Well, some researchers in Michigan have genetically engineered corn plants that contain cellulose-digesting enzymes.  [...]

Seems like the prevalence of the Spanish language in Miami can be partially traced to the insane Cuba policy that movement conservatism has insisted on for 50 years. Cubans can get out, but they can’t get back in. And they tend to vote Republican. So it’s all good! Except Cuban-Americans also speak Spanish. The Right [...]

Note to self: Become President. If you feel like giving a commencement speech, the service academies have to let you. AP’s Ben Feller reports that the President says the so-called reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan is a learning experience for us. I suppose it’s a learning experience for Iraqis and Afghans too, the lesson being, [...]

Daniel Ikenson writes to refute the myths regarding the US steel industry:
The preference in the media for exceptional doom and gloom stories about job loss and manufacturing ghost towns over factual stories about the real state of manufacturing has definitely taken its toll.
Against this pessimism he offers statistics on . . . nothing to do [...]

Meanwhile, someone recently expressed the wish that I do some blogging here, on my actual blog, now and then. So, sure!

Now and then some defender of the Bush White House makes the argument that, "Gosh we’re all so safer now!" But measurement issues and correlation and causation problems aside, one keeps stumbling across the massive [...]

My life can start to get back to normal after a topsy-turvy couple of weeks, and "normal" of course means, with more blogging.
Here’s some recent stuff I wrote for Art of the Possible:

"Eyeball to Eyeball" wonders if Barack Obama made a mistake by ending debate season.
"Veep Veep" was my first entry into the topic du [...]

By Mona
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Pimping my latest topic at AoTP: A Jewish radio pundit who finds it true that — as a Xian fundie minister says, Hitler was G-d’s righteous tool — is, to say the least, effing weird.

By Thoreau
I know that the insanity of America’s far-right hawks is not exactly news, but nonetheless I never thought that the bedwetter brigades would see imminent dhimmitude in a Dunkin’ Donuts ad.
Guys, it’s a striped scarf worn by Rachel Ray at the behest of some stylist for the ad agency.  Get over it.
To show my [...]