Sometimes the only people more stupid than journalists are the people in government that they cover. Today's case study is Douglas County (Minn.) Coordinator Bill Schalow. Once upon a time in a place called Alexandria an official decreed that news must be submitted to the government for approval before being disseminated. The official was not […]
Last week, I linked to an article about an experiment that created plasma much hotter than the center of the sun. Here's a picture of the machine that did it. The caption also includes this gem: During the unexpected powerful contained explosion, the Z machine released about 80 times the world's entire electrical power usage […]
I'm watching my Tivo'd broadcast of CNN's "Reliable Sources" from yesterday with Powerlineblog's John Hinderaker regarding the potential for criminal charges to be brought against The New York Times and The Washington Post for leaking of classified national security information -- the NSA surveillance program in the case of the Times and the once-secret detention […]
Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold has been mentioned as a possible Democrat contender for the presidency in 2008 -- if only for the fact that just about every senator looks in the mirror each morning and sees a future president. If that's the case, Feingold must've been attempting to woo the Bush Derangement Syndrome-suffering base of […]