Political Commentary

He Must Have Been Thinking Of Bill Clinton

Did the head of the DNC really say this?

MATTHEWS: Do you believe that the president can claim executive privilege?

DEAN: Well, certainly the president can claim executive privilege. But in this case, I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can’t play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it’s called. He’s got to go out there and say something about this woman who’s going to a 20 or 30-year appointment, a 20 or 30-year appointment to influence America. We deserve to know something about her.

Emphasis mine.

Howard Dean. The gift that just keeps on giving.

General Science

I Blame George Bush

Here’s an interesting new theory–the large mammals of America may have been wiped out by a storm from a supernova:

Richard Firestone, a nuclear scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who formulated the theory with geologist Allen West, told Discovery News that a key piece of evidence for the supernova is a set of 34,000-year-old mammoth tusks riddled with tiny craters.

The researchers believe that in the sequence of events following the supernova, first, the iron-rich grains emitted from the explosion shot into the tusks. Whatever caused the craters had to have been traveling around 6,214 miles per second, and no other natural phenomenon explains the damage, they said.

Interesting, and as the article says, it’s testable. If it’s true, it’s a new kind of threat to worry about. I wonder if there would be any warning?

I don’t think that the precision in that paragraph makes sense, though–“around 6,214 miles per second”?

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