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Tuesday, October 07, 2003 |
Leaker May Remain Elusive, Bush Suggests. President Bush raised the possibility that the investigation might come up empty in its search for the source of the first article to name an undercover C.I.A. officer. By Richard W. Stevenson and Eric Lichtblau. [New York Times: Politics]
I bet the leaker is hiding out with those other guys Bush promised to get, Saddam and Osama.
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everything.they.ever.typed@enron.com. Browse 1.6 million of Enron's emails for free, courtesy of the Federal Energy Regulation Commission. (Click on the "search iCONECT link in the table on this page, and wait through the slow Java check.) In among the secret dealings and strategic discussions are personal emails about one night stands and evil mother-in-laws.
[via this WSJ article] [MetaFilter]
This is a riot; you gotta feel sorry for a lot of the poor shlubs who worked there, with everyone reading their emails. Trying to connect just now, I got this error popup: "Due to the large volume of users trying to access iCONECT, you may experience difficulty reaching the iCONECT website. Please be patient and try to connect at a later time."
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Faith-based "science"
Via Ken McLeod comes a link to this very interesting site about one scientist and his confrontation with is religious beliefs about the age of the earth. The article here is very interesting, as it portrays the kind of social pressure that these narrow religious fantatics bring to bear on those who question any tenets of their belief:
It appeared that the more I questions I raised, the more they questioned my Christianity. When telling one friend of my difficulties with young-earth creationism and geology, he told me that I had obviously been brain-washed by my geology professors. When I told him that I had never taken a geology course, he then said I must be saying this in order to hold my job. Never would he consider that I might really believe the data. This attitude that the messenger of bad news must be doubted amazed me. And it convinced me that too many of my fellow Christians were not interested in truth but only that I should conform to their theological position. To all intents and purposes I was through with young-earth creationists (not ism yet) because I knew that they didn't care about the data.
Of course, this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. But faith-based science is no different that faith-based foreign policy or faith-based morality or faith-based politics. As long as it comes down to "God told me this, so it must be true," it is, indeed, false.
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