Some new, gorgeous images from the Spitzer (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope) - now almost six million miles from earth. I found this one especially eerie.

New poll: 53% of Americans believe Saddam Hussein was “personally involved” with 9-11 attack on USA. How depressing.. are people really this ignorant and what, they don’t care enough to do any thinking?

Working to find the source for this.

Now there is talk of expanding our bloated, failing Social Security system to residents of Mexico, even those who worked as illegal aliens while in the United States. What land am I living in? Could someone please make me a cogent argument about why this makes any sense?

Stop Pointing Guns at our Kids. Great commentary on the Goose Creek raid by Dr. Marsha Rosenbaum. The Goose Creek incident is yet another demonstration of our overzealous and misguided war on drugs. Even their fellow law enforcement officers are speaking out to say this was stupid.

My friend John Perry Barlow once wrote in a wonderful essay about LSD:

“This is no right wing plot from the top. Like most totalitarian impulses, it has arisen among the people themselves. Terrified of virtual bogeymen we know only from the Evening News, we have asked the government for shorter chains and smaller cages. And, market driven as ever, it has been obliging us.

In my gloomier moments, I wonder if the elimination of freedom in America is not what the War On Some Drugs was actually designed to accomplish.”

Give the whole thing a few minutes of your time.

In what will add fuel to the Dean fire, and a dagger to the back of Mr. Lieberman, I have it on pretty good authority that Gore will endorse Howard Dean in New York tomorrow… more soon.

“With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them,” Colonel Sassaman said.

Judging by the militant standards on drugs some schools are adopting, I would have been summarily executed by the end of my sophomore year.

This is truly amazing. And not a single member of the school committee dissenting… to what kind of humans does this make any sense??