Recently I’ve joked with Ms. Steinfeld about emigrating if Senator John McCain is elected president in November 2008.
Since she’s eligible for a real-no-kidding-Eye-Talian-passport, her chosen destination is Italy (probably somewhere near Sicily or the Tuscan shore). Mine is France.
It seems that my choice may be a bit better than hers…
Newish Washington blogger Charles Brown [...]
CERN will fire up the Large Hadron Collider.
They’ve said previously that nothing bad will happen.
I figure it’s a 50/50 crap-shoot.
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MSNBC’s Cosmic Log reports.
Europe’s CERN particle-physics lab has issued its long-awaited report on safety issues surrounding the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most expensive atom-smasher. Some have feared that when the collider reaches full power, sometime next year, it might create microscopic black holes or other exotic phenomena that could endanger Earth. The [...]
As promised, the text of my letters to Senators Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr and Congressman Walter B. Jones, Jr.
Dear Senator Dole, Senator Burr, Congressman Jones, Jr.,
I was shocked to learn that President George W. Bush may have told Israeli government officials during his recent trip that he was planning military action against Iran.
It is [...]
The Jerusalem Post says “You betcha!“
From the article.
US President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran in the upcoming months, before the end of his term, Army Radio quoted a senior official in Jerusalem as saying Tuesday.
Thankfully for the U.S. (and the rest of Western Civilization), Condoleezza Rice (U.S. Secretary of State) and Bob Gates [...]
Reporters without Borders.
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the unwarranted closure of a privately-owned radio station linked to Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr as fierce clashes continued between the cleric’s militia, the Mahdi Army, and the US and Iraqi armies.
Security forces reporting to the interior ministry raided the studios of al-Ahd in the al-Baladiyat district of Baghdad [...]