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Friday, January 10, 2003

King Kaufman on Giants vs Niners Excellent, as always, King Kaufman on last weeks Giants/Niners game. The NFL is trying too hard to be perfect to admit human error. 11:31:54 PM  Permalink  comment []

Danger to the Wetlands. The Bush administration has opened the possibility that up to 20 percent of the nation's wetlands could lose protections. This is a door that should have remained closed. [New York Times: Opinion] 8:35:04 PM  Permalink  comment []

Illinois Pardons 4 Death Row Inmates. CHICAGO (AP) -- Gov. George Ryan on Friday pardoned four death row inmates, saying ``a manifest injustice'' had occurred when they were apparently tortured into confessing by Chicago police. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] George Ryan is a courageous politician, and it's too bad he has to wait until just a couple days before he leaves office to do this. But his work on the death penalty in Illinois over the past four years is heartening. 8:33:48 PM  Permalink  comment []

Eloquently Stated © 2003, John H. Farr William Pitt is one helluva writer (and thinker). Take a look at this: " When religious institutions fail to provide moral leadership, when governmental institutions become dangerous to the nation they are tasked to serve, when politicians do not work for the people, or when they tremble at the possibility that standing alone in righteousness might cost them votes, when journalism becomes one long commercial, when votes are brokered against the party affiliation of a majority of powerful judges, it becomes necessary for the singular multitude that is the American people to stand and be counted." The whole thing is up and running at Smirking Chimp. Deadly true, hard-hitting stuff. Read it, then turn off your TV and take a long walk. [FarrFeed] 8:29:06 PM  Permalink  comment []

Another Smoking Gun Snuffed Out. Remember a few months ago how the Iraqis were buying aluminum tubes that could be used to process Uranium? UN arms inspectors say, after study, that they're the wrong kind of tubes for that. From Reuters: [Mohamed] ElBaradei, director-general of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, said according to his speaking notes obtained by Reuters that U.N. arms inspectors in... [No War Blog] 8:22:42 PM  Permalink  comment []

SkyView: All Eyes on the Universe. Virtual online observatories -- which collect telescope images from around the world -- provide astronomers with a broad view of the cosmic terrain they can't get using a single telescope. By Manny Frishberg. [Wired News] 8:22:13 PM  Permalink  comment []

New crater revives Moon mystery [New Scientist] Interesting piece; apparently an amateur astronomer photographing the moon in 1953 caught a flash, perhaps an object hitting the moon, or perhaps a meteor entering the earth's atmosphere and only appearing to hit the moon. Now a NASA astronomer thinks she can associate a small crater on the moon with the event. The New Scientist piece is interesting, but frustrating in that doesn't include pictures of either the flash or the crater! The story hasn't made space.com yet; I hope they pick up on it, or that it appears on Astronmy Picture of the Day. 5:29:24 PM  Permalink  comment []

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