on Tony Snow calling the CT primary result a "50-50 split, more or less"

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Partisan Parsing of Election Results:

Isn't that funny how a 52-48 victory this week was "a 50-50 split, more or less", but a 51-49 victory in the 2004 election was a "mandate"? To all the world, spin, spin, spin.

I wonder why I bother sometimes...

I wonder why you bother ever! -- The Young Ones

Stranger Fruit: Go USA! We're #2 .... kind of ...:

Science has just published a short comparative study of international acceptance of evolution. Thirty-four countries were polled, and guess what? We score 33rd - edging out Turkey for last place.

Nigel Marvin returns to the prehistoric past!

Brought to you by the production spin-off team from Walking with Dinosaurs that created the series Chased by Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters, Prehistoric Park takes you into the past with Nigel as he attempts to capture extinct creatures from the past for an impossible zoo of the future.

Oddly, this is being distributed by ITV in the UK instead of the BBC, so how it gets released in American I'm not sure, as the BBC normally supplies stuff like this to the Discovery Channel networks.

ratios...

I think the ratio of the number of people who really don't want to fly because of potential terrorists to the number of people who don't want to fly simply because all of the carry-on restrictions of things considered normal make them to sick to their stomachs is a very small number...