Friday, April 25, 2003

It's the Nukes, Stupid North Korea has not only built its first nuclear weapons, but is threatening to export or use them. Last week, hawks were crowing that our victory in Iraq had forced the North Koreans back to the bargaining table. I don't hear much crowing right now. While the Bush administration has been consumed with Iraq, the North Koreas have apparently made dramatic progress with their nuclear program. [pseudorandom] And let's be clear who "stupid" is -- it's our damn president. Of course, it's only California that's supposedly in range of North Korea's missiles, so what does he care. That's a bunch of electoral votes he wasn't going to get in 2004 anyway... 6:32:51 PM

Big, Evil Sugar Via boing boing comes a story in the Guardian on the US sugar industry's opposition to new nutritional guidelines from the World Health Organization: The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating, due to be published on Wednesday. [pseudorandom] The sugar industry in the United States is centered in Florida. Want to bet they will get their way? As Frank writes at length, they are demonstrably bad people, who are only interested in getting unearned billions of dollars for themselves, at any cost overall. Can we launch a preemptive attack on Florida, please? 6:22:26 PM

The Company We Keep From the Economist, a chart of executions by nation during 2002: [pseudorandom] The thing that goes through my mind when looking at this is (sing along with me now!) "One of these things is not like the others..." Except we are, these days. 6:16:15 PM

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