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Saturday, March 13, 2004

A Nation Unto Himself [New York Times: International News] Really fascinating reading. 10:54:13 PM  Permalink  comment []

Apollo 11 Space Geek Nirvana. [Blogcritics] Enthusiastic review, sounds great. 3:11:46 PM  Permalink  comment []

Guns, Germs and Steel. "Here's a pop quiz. Rank the following in order of the number of American lives they claim in a typical year: food, guns, terrorists, flu and cars." [electablog] 12:38:14 PM  Permalink  comment []

Dept. of Bush League Distortion (cont'd):. Bush Exaggerates Kerry's Position on Intelligence Budget: "Bush is correct that Kerry on Sept. 29, 1995, proposed a five-year, $1.5 billion cut to the intelligence budget. But Bush appears to be wrong when he said the proposed Kerry cut -- about 1 percent of the overall intelligence budget for those years -- would have 'gutted' intelligence. In fact, the Republican-led Congress that year approved legislation that resulted in $3.8 billion being cut over five years from the budget of the National Reconnaissance Office -- the same program Kerry said he was targeting." —Washington Post [Follow Me Here...] 11:13:02 AM  Permalink  comment []

Who's your daddy?. Jack Chick is already a parody, but he's just such an easy target. Check out the spoof on his infamously stupid anti-evolutionary tract, Big Daddy?: a revised version in which the evolutionist teacher easily refutes the snide creationist's nonsense, titled Who's Your Daddy?. It's much closer to what would actually... [Pharyngula] 9:17:02 AM  Permalink  comment []

A Red Planet Forever in the Orbit of Science and Dreams. The planet Mars and the genre of science fiction both came of age in the 1890's, and ever since they have been caught in a feedback loop. By Kim Stanley Robinson. [New York Times: Arts] 8:25:51 AM  Permalink  comment []

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