Live from the Nuke Free Zone

A while back, Primis introduced me to the story of Pat Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals football star who left the game to serve in Afghanistan with his brother Kevin, who himself left a promising baseball career.
It shocked me to hear that Pat Tillman was killed in combat yesterday.
Why does this shock me when so many […]

I came across this at the BBC today, about the idea of growing self-censorship in scientific literature.
Just bringing it up for your notice; I’ll probably have more to say on it tomorrow once I start writing more here.

I have no words:
BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 11:41 a.m. ET April 22, 2004SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean authorities declared a state of emergency Thursday in the region where two fuel trains collided and exploded, killing or injuring as many as 3,000 people, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
The report did not give details, […]

Many of us who follow politics don’t plan to vote for Kerry as much as to vote against Bush. Alan Blevins will be putting such thoughts to words at his new site, John Kerry Is A Douchebag But I’m Voting For Him Anyway. Hopefully, it will live up to its potential.

Via CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A U.S. congressman was briefly detained at a Kentucky airport Tuesday after authorities found a loaded gun in his bag at a screening checkpoint, authorities said.
Rep. John Hostettler, R-Indiana, “completely forgot” he had the gun in his bag as he prepared to take a US Airways flight to Washington for […]

Thanks to fellow SIMS student Joseph Hall for the pointer to this piece of news:
Diebold knew of legal risks

Attorneys for Diebold Election Systems Inc. warned in late November that its use of uncertified vote-counting software in Alameda County violated California election law and broke its $12.7 million contract with Alameda County.
Soon after, a review of […]

Over at AntiWar.com (note: it’s an anti-war site), Matt Barganier points out how the right-wing side of the blogosphere cottons up their ears and spits fire when even their stars point out that not all is well in Iraq.

I barely caught Kerry’s interview with Russert on Meet the Press. Kerry was quite the artful dodger, refusing to answer several questions and dissembling on others. Don’t have the time for a big writeup.

Compare and contrast:

Iran’s Proxy War
Shadows of Teheran over Iraq

Ansar chemical bomb materials seized in Jordan. They say this could have killed people in about a half kilometer radius if they’d finished building it and set it off. There is now a group with the know-how and will to do this kind of large-scale attack, and information isn’t bottled up easily.
Note that this is […]

via Plastic, CIA Director George Tenet claimed under oath that he “didn’t see the President” between August 6 and September 10 2001 because Bush was on vacation, but Bush noted Tenet being at the ranch on August 24 at the time.

Also, via Plastic and Kuro5hin are a pair of reports from Jo Wilder and Rahul […]