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Impressive

At least a pleasant diversion from what’s happening on this planet:

PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) – Europe’s Huygens space probe landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, on Friday, sending back signals that it made a safe descent and its scientific experiments in the mysterious atmosphere had gone as planned.Parachutes designed to smooth its approach deployed on […]

Missing the point

SD’s right-wing bloggers are squawking that left bloggers in SD aren’t outraged that the operator of Daily Kos was a paid consultant to the Dean campaign and using that news to rationalize their actions. They miss the point.

As I said at the outset, I didn’t have a problem with the Thune campaign paying bloggers. […]

Inauguration statement of conscience

Not In Our Name, which in 2002 issued a statement of conscience about where America was headed, plans a new one for the Bush inauguration. It is worth repeating verbatim:

George W. Bush is about to be inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States. Let it not be said that the […]

Worth the time (WMD edition)

David Corn: Bush’s Spin Goes On. Andy Borowitz: Bush Accuses Saddam of Telling the Truth. The Poor Man compares and contrasts WMDs with Rathergate. (Via Daily Kos). Editor & Publisher notes a common thread in the WMD issue and Rathergate: “Neither scandal would have ever happened if journalists had done a better job at […]

Impeachment now

We all knew it was coming but here is the lede of an Associated Press report (emphasis added):

WASHINGTON Jan 12, 2005 — The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited as justification for going to war, the White House […]