Freaky.

The article everyone has been talking about. But it probably does not tell you anything you don’t already know.

Enough said.

Shows how much they really care about human rights. If there is any justification for hauling foreign dignitaries to the docket for human rights abuses these guys should have been at the top of the list.

Interesting Idea.

Don’t ask, don’t tell.

More rumblings.

More reasons to stand around wringing ones hand and talking about the need for tough diplomacy.

It cost billions of dollars to make and it can be damaged by a piece of bread?

Bad news on the tax front.

Things have no use but are cool to know.

This might be next week’s essay of the week. But if you have the time, you might want to read it now. The question of the hour is who told what and why. You can’t believe anything you read in such articles and yet it might all be true.

From Megan McArdle:“California has come up with a novel way to close this year’s budget gaps: it’s increasing withholding from the paychecks of its citizens.”

You can leave, but you can never talk. What would happen if a church tried to slap such a legal injunction on a pastor?

Lines that make you lose respect for Scientists: “”Early paleontologists recognised the distinction between adults and juveniles, but people have lost track of looking at ontogeny – how the individual develops – when they discover a new fossil.”