Merry Daylight Savings Time! Here are some links for you. First, the science stuff:
- I have some thoughts on the possible approval of cefquinome use in cattle.
- Also, I have some interesting factoids about MRSA for ya.
- There’s a new strain of norovirus in town.
- From the Neisseria gonorrhoea files (that would be the ‘clap’): it doesn’t matter if the bacterium is sensitive to antibiotics if you can’t detect it.
- Mark H tells us why polar bears are white.
The other stuff:
- In Slate, Jacob Weisberg has four points about Iraq that no politician is willing to utter.
- Sisyphus Shrugged notes that Giuliani, ‘America’s mayor’, isn’t all that he’s cracked up to be.
- When Rick Scarborough is the voice of sanity, you know you’ve gone off the deep end.
- Jameson Foer describes the attempted Republican ‘girlification’ of the Democrats.
- Only George Bush could disturb the spirits of the Mayans’ ancestors.
- James Wolcott covers the Million Mope March.
- James Wolcott and Lance Mannion have brilliant pseudo-reviews of the movie 300
- Max Blumenthal discusses the phenomenon of the Conflicted Conservative in Crisis. It’s ugly.
- When the Army starts blurring together the identities of dead soldiers, we have crossed some kind of sick moral boundary. The one thing militaries always do well is funerals…
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