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Friday, July 02, 2004

Cassini Team Says Saturn's Rings May Be Eroding. PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - An eruption of atomic oxygen spotted around Saturn by the Cassini spacecraft suggests that the planet's iconic rings are eroding and could be gone in 100 million years, NASA scientists said on Friday. [Reuters: Science] Time to act now to save the rings! 5:05:19 PM  Permalink  comment []

Cheney is still making things up as he goes along. Has there ever been a high-ranking White House official as hopelessly, uncontrollably dishonest as Dick "Go F--- Yourself" Cheney? Nixon, maybe, but I maintain that the scales tip in Cheney's favor. I read Cheney's speech to the D-Day Museum in New Orleans yesterday and initially deleted my post about it. His mendacity was just overwhelming; it would have taken too long to refute the whole thing. In fact, I started wondering if perhaps that was part of the new strategy -- one or two lies are easy to spot and... [The Carpetbagger Report] 2:01:22 PM  Permalink  comment []

The new GOP motto Playing with My Food has a great post about the new GOP motto, "go fuck yourself." That, I guess, and "if it feels good, do it." 9:37:25 AM  Permalink  comment []

Beethoven sonatas online. The BBC has made Artur Pizzaro’s complete Beethoven sonatas available online, together with interview, critical notes etc. Fantastic! [Crooked Timber] 9:19:40 AM  Permalink  comment []

Another month of disappointing job numbers. We've been hearing all week that June's employment numbers were going to be impressive, bolstering the White House's arguments about Bush's stewardship of the economy and hurting John Kerry's chances of using Bush's job numbers against him in the campaign. Instead, today we have bad news for the economy, bad news for workers, bad news for Bush, and good news for Kerry. Economists predicted a rise of at least 250,000 new jobs last month. It'd still be far short of the White House's predictions in the wake of its third... [The Carpetbagger Report] 9:13:41 AM  Permalink  comment []

Your Morning Lie, For Kristof. Lie: The danger to our country is grave and it is growing. The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons,... [The Poor Man] 8:50:01 AM  Permalink  comment []

Taking a flying fuck at a rolling donut The ever strange, ever talented Marlon Brando is dead at 80. He made some of the greatest moments in movie history. 8:48:01 AM  Permalink  comment []

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