] "You certainly do have the power" — Dean, having fun with reporters ]the same day, as they gave him a T-shirt emblazoned with ]"Establishment Media" on the front and "We Have the Power, Dean Press ]Corps 2004" on the back.

CQ.com

] Even so, Atlanta is "the most dangerous city in America,"
] and the positive momentum is "fragile," according to the
] summary. Atlanta's violent crime is 463 percent higher
] than the average city's, and its homicide rate is 520
] percent higher than the national average, Linder &
] Associates found.

!!!

Atlanta,Georgia,11Alive,ATLANTA,News,Weather,Doppler,sports,events

] CONSERVATIVE LYSENKOISM, CONTINUED. Tapped alum Chris
] Mooney reports here on a startling development: 20 Nobel
] Laureates have signed a statement calling on the Bush
] administration restore scientific integrity to the
] policymaking process. It's quite unprecedented, and very
] interesting. I've been following this topic -- often
] through Chris's valuable blog -- for the last two years,
] and I think this is emerging as one of the key political
] issues for 2004. For more reading, I'd check out the
] following three articles. First, Chris's profile of White
] House science advisor John Marburger in the Prospect.
] Second, this article by Nick Thompson documenting the
] growing divide between the GOP and the scientific
] community on a variety of issues where conservative
] theology conflicts with available evidence or scientific
] consensus. Finally, this piece by Richard Florida in the
] Washington Monthly, which explains how the Bush
] administration's anti-scientism (among other things)
] threatens our economic health.

very interesting. goto http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/index.cfm to read about the scientist's movement to stop the distortion of science by the bush admin....

TAPPED: Conservative Lysenkoism, Continued.

] The patient's rare condition is called pica, a compulsion
] to eat things not normally consumed as food. Its name
] comes from the Latin word for magpie, a bird thought to
] eat just about anything.
]
] Pica can take the form of eating dirt, ashes, chalk,
] hair, soap, toothbrushes, burned matches and many other
] things. Francois once treated a patient who ate forks.
] Most such objects are small enough to pass on their own,
] but some must be removed by doctors.

how have human's survived the evolutionary ladder this long....

CNN.com - Hundreds of coins found in patient's belly - Feb. 18, 2004

] Polaroid said its film should be laid on a flat surface
] and shielded from the wind, and that users should avoid
] bending or twisting their pictures. Of course, "lay it on
] a flat surface like a Polaroid picture," doesn't sound
] nearly as cool.

Shake it shake it shake it shake it shake it......

CNN.com - Polaroid warns buyers not to 'Shake It' - Feb. 17, 2004

] PARIS -- The dormant Garden Gnome Liberation Front has
] sprung back to life, stealing about 20 gnomes during a
] nighttime raid on a Paris exhibition.
]
] "We demand ... that garden gnomes are no longer ridiculed
] and that they be released into their natural habitat,"
] the Front's Paris wing said in a statement following its
] weekend strike.

Still makes me laugh to think about....

CNN.com - Garden Gnome Liberation Front strikes Paris show - April 12, 2000

] The content available online is much less important than
] the manner in which it is delivered, indeed, the way the
] Web is structured. Its influence is structural rather
] than informational, and its structure is agnostic. For
] that reason, parental controls of the sort that AOL can
] offer gives no comfort to conservatives. It's not that
] Johnny will Google "hardcore" or "T&A" rather than
] "family values;" rather, it's that Johnny will come to
] think, consciously or not, of everything he reads as
] linked, associative and contingent. He will be
] disinclined to accept the authority of any text, whether
] religious, political or artistic, since he has learned
] that there is no such thing as the last word, or indeed
] even a series of words that do not link, in some way, to
] some other text or game. For those who grow up reading
] online, reading will come to seem a game, one that
] endlessly plays out in unlimited directions. The web, in
] providing link after associative link, commentary upon
] every picture and paragraph, allows, indeed requires,
] users to engage in a postmodernist inquiry.

The media is the message.

Ryan: That's a really interesting notion. I can only hope that it is true. The world could use a little more cynicism and a critical eye. I would love it if people could see moral relativism at least as it can be applied in some places rather than others. Perhaps I will save a more coherent rant on this piece for my own blog.....

CTHEORY.NET : Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left by Peter Lurie

watch idiots try to pull a car out of a ditch.

ryan: that's pretty quality. I was kind of hoping that they attached it to the axel though. That would have been even more fun!

Hook it to the frame, ppl

] Cox's Smokers Outlet
]
] 410 Commercial Drive
] Suite 101
] Louisville, KY 40223

This place totally exists in Louisville (my home town)!!! Sorry for the sophomoric humor, but I really couldn't resist!

Cox's Smoker's Outlet- Home of the Cheap Smokes!-On the Web

] When scientists learned last month that the word
] "evolution" had been removed from Georgia's proposed
] science curriculum for middle and high schools, some
] wondered what else might have been deleted.
]
] Some feared that the big-bang theory — the dominant scientific ]theory about the origins of the universe — would be absent.
]
]Their fears were well founded.
]
]The big bang had been eliminated from the science curriculum, and ]lessons on plate tectonics had been scaled back.

I swear, I may need to leave this state sooner than I thought..... Yeah, because the Bible is totally an authoritative source on this stuff......

Big bang busted in science class for high schools