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The Bush administration’s dumbest legal arguments of the year. – By Dahlia Lithwick
The Bush administration continues to limit our basic freedoms, conceal its own worst behavior, and insist that it does all this in order to make us more free. In that spirit, it seemed an opportune moment to commemorate the administration’s worst legal justifications [...]

Your Stuff’s Backstory: If It Isn’t Grown, It Must Be Mined:
Where does your stuff come from? Before the store, before the factory, where did it really begin? If it isn’t made of wood, cloth, or other living matter, it was dug out of the ground.
Number one of The Natural Step’s four System Conditions is that [...]

James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking minority member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has published a 110 page report titled “Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims in 2007“.
The report is introduced with:
Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects [...]

I can’t respond to any emails today. « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures – I Can Has Cheezburger?:
I can’t respond to any emails today.

Something has crashed on my computer . . .

Thomas did a post of his five favorite sunset photos from last summer. Thomas Laupstad is a photographer from Northern Norway and I am constantly amazed by the beauty of his work. He posts his work on his blog at Photos from Northern Norway.
I wish I had more use for a calendar [...]