I’ve started cleaning up my blogroll, and you’ll see some subtle changes over to the left. I updated stale URLs, and promoted NASA Watch and Hobby Space from the outskirts of transterrestriality up into the “Space” section. I’ve also demoted some of the space bloggers for lack of posts. I’ve left Laughing Wolf there for now, even though there’s been little space-related content from him as of late, because I’m too lazy to figure out where else to put him. I’ve also set up an “AWOL” section for bloggers who have claim to have thrown in the towel, or simply disappeared, in hopes that some or all of them may reappear in the future.
I’ve also belatedly added Iowahawk to the humor section, though most of his stuff is about as funny as a screen door in an airlock. By the way, he’s celebrating his first blogiversary, so go over and read his annual report. I’ve also added Treacher and Frank J.
More to come, perhaps when I get time over the holidays.
Sorry for the short notice–I should have said something sooner, but if you can get out of town, and the sky is clear, the best meteor shower of the year is tonight.
Jay Manifold has more, and actually had it over a week ago.
But he also points out this strange rewriting (or miswriting) of history:
…Daschle and Lott believed that conservative House Republicans had gone too far by impeaching the president for essentially lying about his affair in a civil proceeding, and they worked successfully behind the scenes to avert a conviction.
Ramesh notes that there was never a chance of a conviction, but I think that’s wrong. The real point is that the reporter fails to point out how Daschle conspired with Lott–they worked behind the scenes to make sure that there was no real trial. They allowed no witnesses, with only videotaped testimony of key players. If all of the evidence that the House members had seen (resulting in the impeachment vote) had been shown to the public, it’s actually quite unlikely that Clinton would have remained from office.
In addition, Clinton wasn’t just accused of “essentially lying about his affair in a civil proceeding.” There was witness tampering and witness intimidation as well. These are serious federal felonies–the stuff of mafiosi, regardless of the subject matter.
This is an interesting breakthrough in organ preservation–wood frogs that freeze solid in the winter, and then thaw without apparent damage in the spring. They’re attempting to apply it to donor organs.
Scientists say they don’t see any immediate potential for putting an entire human body in a science fiction-style deep freeze…
Well, it seems like a significant step in that direction to me.