Live from the Nuke Free Zone

I’m just going to quote this one verbatim. If it goes through, to say that this would be a bombshell would be understating things:
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1 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Section 603 of Jefferson’s Manual of the Rules of
3 the United States House of Representatives allows federal
4 impeachment proceedings to be initiated […]

…’cause ding dong the witch is dead.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Rep. Tom DeLay will drop out of his re-election race, two Republican congressional sources told CNN on Monday.
DeLay was forced to step down as House majority leader last year after being indicted in his home state of Texas.
DeLay told Time magazine Monday that he and his […]

Don’t you think Bush looks tired?

The 30 year guerilla war in Aceh province, Indonesia is finally over.
May there be more random outbreaks of peace in the coming year.

And now, Tommy D’s mugshot:

PZ Myers has a lament for America up today on the Street:
Hugo Gernsback’s soaring chrome towers and aerocars were pretty, but a bit much; Cronkite’s picture of savvy engineers and can-do American pragmatism were more realistic, I thought. Like the Flash Gordon rocketships of Gibson’s story, though, they’re also fading away, to be replaced with […]

Two years ago today.

“Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.”
–Ellison Onizuka

Hyugens
successfully landed on Titan and transmitted for well past its expected
battery life, bringing us the first pictures of what the surface of this mysterious
moon actually looks like.

More to come, and as always the NFZ will be there.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s near-infrared vision is hot on the trail of a possible planetary companion to a relatively bright young brown dwarf located 225 light-years away in the southern constellation Hydra. Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile detected the planet candidate in April 2004 with infrared observations. The […]