it's true you're lazy you're tired and crazy

* Trent Lott offers his solution to the Iraq situation: “If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens. You’re dealing with insane suicide bombers who are killing our people, and we need to be very aggressive in taking them out.”

* Why has discourse fallen apart? For one thing, millionaire journalists run the press corps.

* Scientific McCarthyism: "The report Politics and Science in the Bush Administration [available at the link] finds numerous instances where the Administration has manipulated the scientific process and distorted or suppressed scientific findings. Beneficiaries include important supporters of the President, including social conservatives and powerful industry groups."

A related washington post article.