WANTED: Diplomat cross-trained in non-Aristolean logic, object to break ceasefire agreement out of Gehenna. Ceasefire should be mutually acceptable and reasonable (it neither requires Hamas to heretically renege on its charter, nor enables continued rocket fire endangering former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg), but contains "A and not-A" ( Read more... )

May the upcoming year go well for all my readers.

8AM Dec. 25 2008: 15F
8AM Dec. 26 2008: 60F
3PM Dec. 26 2008: 68F

10:30PM Dec 26 2008:
TORNADO WATCH 955 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST FOR THE
FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

( including most of the east edge of Kansas. )

We're heading into the last few days before the Twelve Days of Christmas. May the next few days give much cause for cheer to my readers, regardless of what else may be happening.

Cf. Carolina Journal:RALEIGH - Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts - including 401(k)s and IRAs - and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration ( Read more... )

We had almost the most irresponsible reporting on the U.S. elections ever, last night. (The most irresponsible reporting ever is held by 1948: openly announcing the transparent falsity of Dewey's winning the Presidency and Truman's defeat.)

Having brazenly called 40 of 50 states on no data at all, it would have been completely appropriate for one ( Read more... )

...consider waiting for the server loading to be low enough for that email form page to actually arrive. Master indexing from www.house.gov was less than operational as well.

The corresponding contact-by-email forms for Senators (and the master indexing from www.senate.gov ) were working when I used them.

The "destroy the U.S., early Christmas gift to the banks" U.S.$700 billion [sarcasm]bailout[/sarcasm] bill met its demise, 228-205. It appears that a reincarnation will not be scheduled until after Rosh Hoshana (tomorrow).

It would be too much to actually expect Congress to consider a bill that fixes anything. (Considering things that the ( Read more... )

I'd guess circa six feet or so of (electrically conductive) DNA for the neutrophil. A slow-motion animation for the eosinophil version would be fascinating to watch at least once.Previous research has shown that eosinophils secrete toxic granule proteins during parasite infections and that these granule proteins kill bacteria. Simon, Gleich, and ( Read more... )

...although former Hurricane Fey's Fay's remnants after U.S. landfall #4 officially (National Hurricane Center) appear likely to try to flood my area out again, much like Dolly's did.

The spaghetti map is less confidence-inspiring. (Unstable link, but should point "somewhere" after Fay is off the forecast loop.)