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• Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars

  Thu Apr 23, 2009
  • The pure insanity of most current economic policies, legislation and news hits me like Catch 22 on steroids. I am not sure whether to laugh or to cry. I am grateful, at least, to The Onion for tipping that scale to a good chuckle.

• Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars

  Thu Apr 23, 2009
  • Gotta love The Onion folks for their exper-tease.

• Why the Automaker Bankruptcy is a Good Thing for America

  Thu Nov 20, 2008
  • Robert, I appreciated your link.   I remain interested in the Chernobyl incident and the aftermath of it.  However, space guy is right.  Our reactors are much safer. 

• Greenpeace on fusion: Whatever it is, we're against it

  Sat Nov 22, 2008
  • Would it help to explain to them that humans are animals, too?  We're not rocks.  We're not vegetables (although I personally have my vegetative moments).  We are animals. 

• Munger: ORNL’s stainless steel attracts global interest :

  Sat Nov 22, 2008
  • Among the U.S. responsibilities is the shielding blanket that goes around the magnetically confined fusion chamber, where the plasma fuel may reach 100 million degrees Celsius. 

• Report: Records search on Joe the Plumber improper

  Thu Nov 20, 2008
  • Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services would appear culpable if they do not take action against the woman.  If not the ACLU, I wish conservative watchdog groups would mount a legal campaign to make a "fear of God" example of the woman -- to deter future violations of privacy.

• NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft Detects Buried Glaciers on Mars

  Thu Nov 20, 2008
  •  The apparent velocity of radio waves passing through the apron is consistent with a composition of water ice.

• Why the Automaker Bankruptcy is a Good Thing for America

  Thu Nov 20, 2008
  • Anyone want to join my union, the F.U.A.W. ?

• Systemic Problems with NASA Climate Data Sets

  Sun Nov 16, 2008
  • Mankind should and will miss the late, great Michael Crichton -- a tireless watchdog of human foibles and bad science.  In his honor, on Nov.

• Systemic Problems with NASA Climate Data Sets

  Sun Nov 16, 2008
  • Very interesting discussion about adjusted data in the comments.  Thanks, northerngirl.