So far the USB drive has bonked ruining my presentation.  The TV is here wondering why we have nothign to show them because the files are gone, and the device has, aparrently, been stolen.

How could things get any worse?

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060829/NEWS24/608290360/-1/NEWS

No one in attendance voiced opposition to rules submitted by Attorney General Jim Petro's office to the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review, consisting of members of the Ohio House and Senate.

The concept was offered by Roman Catholic bishops as an alternative ( Read more... )

http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=735

"In a move that has been termed 'positively Orwellian' by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Executive Director Jeff Ruch, George W. Bush is ending public access to research materials at EPA regional libraries without Congressional consent. This all-out effort to impede research and ( Read more... )

a conservative with common sense!

Here's the thing, conservatives aren't all insane fundamenalists but their LEADERS are, and when the conservatives go "Lets all stick together" you end up with wingnuttery in office.

I give you Frank Zappa (a sane conservative) vs. a bunch of guys on censorship (a bunch of wingnuts).

"The New York Times reports that the Evolution biology subject has disappeared from a list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students. The Education department has described this as a Clerical Mistake but others are skeptical about this. 'Scientists who knew about the omission also said ( Read more... )

I saw Sandy eating peaches on the lawn.

I'm on sandy beaches all day long.

I won candy for each day we're gone.

One candy for each way and they're gone!

One eighty four is a reach and the hair's wong!

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060810_evo_rank.html

I wont quote all the goodies, but its a great, well balanced article.

One line summary:   Voiceferous fundamentalist christians, intelligent design advocates, and politicians who will pander to any whacked out viewpoint are hurting American science education and our adults weren't too ( Read more... )

Ever after work is over.

Its the only way to be sure....

http://user.it.uu.se/%7Esvens/larverna/normal.html

MY GOD!

http://www.civilrights.org/issues/cj/details.cfm?id=45974

A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such "commissions" to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international terrorism, ( Read more... )