] STEWART: Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America.
]
] BEGALA: OK. Now
]
] (CROSSTALK)
]
] STEWART: And come work for us, because we, as the
] people...
]
] CARLSON: How do you pay?
]
] STEWART: The people -- not well.
]
] (LAUGHTER)
]
] BEGALA: Better than CNN, I'm sure.
]
] STEWART: But you can sleep at night.
]
] (LAUGHTER)
]
] STEWART: See, the thing is, we need your help. Right now,
] you're helping the politicians and the corporations. And
] we're left out there to mow our lawns.
]
] BEGALA: By beating up on them? You just said we're too
] rough on them when they make mistakes.
]
] STEWART: No, no, no, you're not too rough on them. You're
] part of their strategies. You are partisan, what do you
] call it, hacks.

Stewart for President

John Stewart fights for us on Crossfire CNN.com - Transcripts

] A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at
] the University of Washington could dramatically cut the
] time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and
] could make humans a permanent fixture in space.
]
] In fact, with magnetized-beam plasma propulsion, or
] mag-beam, quick trips to distant parts of the solar
] system could become routine, said Robert Winglee, a UW
] Earth and space sciences professor who is leading the
] project.

Awesome!

Newswise: Plasma Beam would get people in Mars in 90 days

] "We're talking about dozens of sites being dismantled," a
] diplomat said on condition of anonymity. "Large numbers
] of buildings taken down, warehouses were emptied and
] removed. This would require heavy machinery, demolition
] equipment. This is not something that you'd do
] overnight."
]
] Diplomats in Vienna say the IAEA is worried that these
] facilities, which belonged to Saddam's pre-1991 covert
] nuclear weapons program, could have been packed up and
] sold to a country or militants interested in nuclear
] weapons.

How many of us will die a firey death because of our mistakes in Iraq?

CNN.com - Iraqi N-sites 'stripped carefully' - Oct 14, 2004

] ...because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, "At
] times, to be silent is to lie."
]
] ...One actually has to be something of a specialist, today,
] to even begin to grasp quite how fantastically, how
] baroquely and at once brutally fucked the situation of
] the United States has since been made to be.

He made a funny joke now, about Billy.

William Gibson is blogging again...

] TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A Japanese publisher will
] suspend a comic series in its popular weekly magazine
] after receiving angry protests over its characterization
] of the 1937 "Rape of Nanjing," in which Japanese soldiers
] brutally massacred Chinese civilians.

CNN.com - 'Rape of Nanjing' comic draws ire - Oct 14, 2004

] A global map of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere has
] revealed the most precise view yet of pollution hotspots
] around the world.
]
] The map, based on 18 months%u2019 worth of satellite
] data, shows very high levels of NO2 above major European
] and North American cities and across much of north-east
] China. South-east Asia and Africa also have raised
] concentrations of the gas due to their burning of
] vegetation.

Check out China, even compared to Gary Indiana.

Article: World's pollution hotspots revealed from space�| New Scientist

] NASA scientists have found that cirrus clouds, formed by
] contrails from aircraft engine exhaust, are capable of
] increasing average surface temperatures enough to account
] for a warming trend in the United States that occurred
] between 1975 and 1994.

Boing Boing: airplane exhaust scars

] anuary 19, 2001 -- If humans had radio antennas instead
] of ears, we would hear a remarkable symphony of strange
] noises coming from our own planet. Scientists call them
] "tweeks," "whistlers" and "sferics." They sound like
] background music from a flamboyant science fiction film,
] but this is not science fiction. Earth's natural radio
] emissions are real and, although we're mostly unaware of
] them, they are around us all the time.
]
] "Everyone's terrestrial environment almost literally
] sings with radio waves at audio frequencies," says Dennis
] Gallagher, a space physicist at the Marshall Space Flight
] Center (MSFC). "Our ears can't detect radio waves
] directly, but we can convert them to sound waves with the
] aid of a very low frequency (VLF) radio receiver."

Earth Songs

] The ''shock and awe" attack that toppled Saddam Hussein
] in three weeks is often touted as a brilliant strategy
] that defeated Iraq with relatively few US casualties. But
] new information suggests that the United States may have
] played into Hussein's plans for a quick war followed by a
] long guerrilla insurgency.

If I didn't call this then, I should have. There were two ways Saddam could have played an invasion by the US. Neither was a conventional military victory.

Boston.com / News / World / Study ties Hussein, guerrilla strategy

] You can hear sferics, tweeks, whistlers and other VLF
] radio sounds at any time of the day, but the hours
] around dawn and dusk are generally best. Nighttime is
] also better than daytime. In Huntsville, AL, where
] our online receiver is located, dawn happens at about
] 1200 UT and dusk is ten hours later at 2200 UT.

This is good white noise. Makes you feel spacey, too.

NASA online VLF receiver