- Won’t you please buy your senator a spine? NY Times: House silent on censure resolution. Daily Kos: McCarthy alive and well.
- The EFF is suing AT&T for complying with Bush’s illegal wiretapping program.
- Another top general has called for Rummy’s resignation.
- The US & UK are holding not-so-secret talks about invading Iran.
- Yet another Halliburton scandal.
- Judge orders FEC to explain current approach to 527s or begin regulating.
Ecologist Dr. Eric Pianka suggested eliminating 90% of humanity with airborne Ebola last month, and received a standing ovation from his Texas Academy of Science audience. See also “Ecofascism”.See comments.- Babylon throne gwan down.
- Keith Olbermann gets a thorough treatment in the Washington Post.
- Israel’s Attorney General has asked Ashkenazi chief rabbi Metzger to step down.
- Eldad begins its slow creep into East Jerusalem.
- Quoth the PA’s new Foreign Minister: “I dream of hanging a huge map of the world on the wall at my Gaza home which does not show Israel on it. I hope that our dream to have our independent state on all historic Palestine (including Israel). This dream will become real one day. I’m certain of this because there is no place for the state of Israel on this land.”
- Washington Post: The dream of greater Israel goes puff.
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The Pianka story is slander, promulgated by one Forrest Mims. See The Panda’s Thumb and this TV news story, including a 20-minute unedited interview with Pianka.