Today at work was really boring except for the fire alarm, strippers, and suspected meth lab. Oh, and the four hours I spent researching recent weapons smuggling in Romania in between actual work assignments. (AWESOME ( Read more... )

A lot of interesting articles coming out today.

Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind?

Raid on bin Laden compound avenged CIA deaths

AP Exclusive: Syria to end nuclear secrecy

U.S. Runs Short of Gas Used in Detecting Nuclear Material

And then there's this one.

Obama Cites Poland as Model for Arab Shift

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Welcome back to another lovely all-nighter with me. Kind of. I took a nap from 12-4am. So maybe I just got up really, really early.

( why do i do this to myself whyyy--oh. well, that was worth it. carry on. )

Dude!

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After I didn't sleep well, missed Russian through alarm clock issues, and busted my ass to scramble to my genocide class this afternoon only to find it arbitrarily canceled (my and another guy's vulgar howls echoed down the hall; it was awesomely dramatic) I flounced to the library. Wherein I read legislation frowning sternly at the Russians for ( Read more... )

In my Security Policy class, we have debates on policy themes. For each debate there is a corresponding paper due. My debate topic is arguing for coercive interrogation (for terrorists) and my paper is arguing against Global Zero (nuclear disarmament) because the entire idea is "unrealistic and dangerous ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm sorry, but reading about how chemical weapons work is one of the coolest things I have done in awhile. I love you, school library. Let's go, bio minor! And I am completely skipping the sections on ethics and misuses of biotech for the cool stuff. This one deactivates acetylcholinesterase. This one leads to liver cancer and has been ( Read more... )