States Line Up to Woo Biotech. Wired News Jun 21 2003 4:41AM ET [Moreover - moreover...]

You know, I hate articles like this. It starts out discussing the many exhibits that a lot of states will have at the BIO meeting this week, then it moves way off topic into the controversy surrounding P4 high level containment facilities at UCD. It further decays into a 'He said. She said' diatribe regarding how much public discussion there had been before hand. Of course UCD says there was lots of discussion. The opponents claim there was not. Nothing very useful here at all. The article is all over the place. Particularly since it starts out talking about commercial biotech then spends most of the article discussing a facility at a public school being paid for by public money. I hate being tricked by a headline and a few opening paragraphs into reading a piece with no real point. I mean, some people like biotech no matter what. Some people hate it no matter what. Wow. Stop the presses.  6:12:31 AM    

Anais Nin. "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." [Quotes of the Day]

Robert Orben. "I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home." [Quotes of the Day]

George Price. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?" [Quotes of the Day]

Paul Valery. "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." [Quotes of the Day]

Lewis Thomas. "The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand." [Quotes of the Day]

Jane Wagner. "Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it." [Quotes of the Day]

David Letterman. "There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." [Quotes of the Day]

Cyril Connolly. "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you." [Quotes of the Day]

Bertrand Russell. "When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others." [Quotes of the Day]

Bertrand Russell. "When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others." [Quotes of the Day]

Fran Lebowitz. "In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra." [Quotes of the Day]

Oscar Wilde. "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." [Quotes of the Day]

Lots of useful quotes for the day.  5:59:42 AM    

Life of Inner-City Youth Saved by Harry Potter Book. (2003-06-21) -- A 14-year-old Philadelphia boy was treated and released from a hospital this morning after being shot in the chest by a friend who wanted his new copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, according to... [ScrappleFace]

For those of us who have had it with Harry Hype. There are several other quite humorous 'announcements' also.  5:56:50 AM