Sunday, June 19, 2005

Don't let the bedbugs bite

I was reading an article about the person who filmed the meeting at Yalta and it made a reference to bedbugs. Apparently, these things actually exist! Yes, bedbugs are alive and well, not the fairy-tale creatures I thought they were. Here's how Wikipedia describes these guys:

Bedbugs (or bed bugs) are small nocturnal insects of the family Cimicidae that feed on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts.


There was an article a while ago on a human exoskeleton. How cool is that? Sounds remarkably similar to Starship Troopers or those machines in the movie Aliens. Not exactly knew, and articles like this pop up fairly often, but still very cool.

Then there's the old argument over farm subsidies. I swear, these countries need to have people who've studied economics. It's the same as the anti-globalization protesters who just don't want to be part of the world. They want to live in the past. I'm going to single out France as particularly bad about these (their massive farm subsidies, their insistence on always creating a French version of everything such as their proposed competitor to Google's digitized book service). But what really caught my eye was this quote:
In total, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo estimated, "corrupt African leaders have stolen at least $140 billion from their people in the [four] decades since independence." All that is left when these regimes eventually collapse is a massive public debt.


Over at DailyKOS there's a mention of some of the things that are soldiers have done. Right above another story about Gitmo abuse. And then you pop on over to National Review, and you see that they're LAUDING Gitmo. Umm, anyone understand this? How can you be so utterly partisan to just ignore what's going on?

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