The Weasel saw this and could only sputter ( Read more... )

I've been skipping most of the recent thread on the sfbay-poly list, because I knew as soon as I read the initial post that the same old flamewar was going to start up again. And it has, with predictable results. ( I'm going to cut this for those who would rather skip the gory details. )

Ex-head of FDA under criminal investigation by a grand jury over the "Plan B" contraceptive pill snafu.

Normally I wouldn't post something like this, as it's just one step in an investigation... but it got me to thinking.

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Okay, it is going a little far to break out the quotes from "1984", but ( this is disturbing. )

Everyone's heard about the Supreme Court case which allowed New London, CT to seize private property under eminent domain if it was done to battle "blight". Now I discover that there's icing on the cake.

New London is claiming that the affected homeowners were living on city land for the duration of the lawsuit and owe back rent.Gosh darn it, ( Read more... )

Hackett lost to Schmidt in Ohio today. I've been following this mostly through Nick -- he's been very interested -- and I heard the verdict when I got home tonight.

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I usually take information from the Pesticide Action Network with a grain of salt; even though I've been chemically injured and deal poorly with many of the pesticides they campaign against, their tone has always struck me as overly hysterical. That said, they sometimes do a good job of aggregating other news reports and summarizing studies, and ( Read more... )

Kudos to This Is True:

A school spelling bee in Rhode Island was cancelled because the district believed that the competition conflicted with the standards set by the No Child Left Behind Act. (It was later reinstated by the new superintendent, who seemed to feel a little differently ( Read more... )

I called in this morning to say I wouldn't be coming to work. My stated reason was that I couldn't put my shoes on because my feet hurt too much, which is true enough. It had more to do with the fact that all it would take would be one cranky driver and I'd walk off the four-way, find a quiet corner, and cry hysterically for the next hour. I ( Read more... )

( Skip it if you don't feel like reading the smallish rant. )