Osama visits Bush in Oz, says it’s all a misunderstanding
Dear Leader is away in Australia, visiting his lapdog, Oz Prime Minister John Howard and attending the Asia-Pacific economic (APEC) summit. At the summit he chatted easily with his soulmates: U.S....
View ArticleCarnegie-Mellon’s Dr. Strangeloves
Carnegie-Mellon is a great university and when it comes to robotics and computer science is always on the cutting edge. But does that cutting edge have to be so sharply lethal? Unmanned aircraft are...
View ArticleAttorney General Mukasey intent on sending his reputation down the toilet
The Global War on Terror is claiming yet another victim: the reputation of Attorney General Michael Mukasey as a principled guardian of the Rule of Law. Even before joining the Bush administration...
View ArticleThe Bush administration: keeping us safe (from subversive art)
The art professor is finally cleared but a distinguished biologist was still punished by a ridiculous, mindless, cruel and utterly reckless use of raw power by the Bush administration: A federal judge...
View ArticleProject Bioshield comes up dry again
We’ve had occasion to discuss the boondoggle, Project Bioshield a number of times (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here). Maybe I should have said, quite a number of times. REally, though,...
View ArticleYuck! This coffee tastes like poison!
Medical institutions in the US northeast have always been competitive, and Harvard has always been toward the top of the list in that category. I don’t mean just competitive to get into. I mean...
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