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Scientists Determine the Nature of Black Hole Jets
Most quasars have jets. A quasar is bright galaxy core fueled by a supermassive black hole containing the mass of millions to billions of suns confined within a region about the size of our solar system. The particle jets, usually in opposing pairs, shoot off perpendicularly from the […]

Henry at Crooked Timber has Dennis Cardinal Hastert’s Galbraith Score at three so far.  (”Anyone who says four times that he won’t resign, will.”)
Of course, the very first comment brought up Donald Rumsfeld, who must have a score well into the double digits by now, so make of these predictions what you will.

R. Kelly Tom Reynolds, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, held a press conference surrounded by a children’s choir a bunch of the children of local Republicans, so that he could explain the fascinating story about how the coverup of Mark Foley’s sex scandal is totally Denny Cardinal Hastert’s fault and not his.
The reporters […]

Follow this link for pictures of a waterboarding apparatus that was used by the Khmer Rouge.
Waterboarding is an enhanced iterrogation technique that it is now fully legal to use, under U.S. law, against any one of us, should the President decide that he doesn’t like the cut of our jibs:
6. Water Boarding: The prisoner is […]

Second-hand - a cabbie from Uganda describes what it was like:
“Bush is a dictator. Did I offend you?”
“No. What makes him a dictator?”
“You cannot joke about killing him. Hell even under Amin we danced and sang death songs at him. He had a hotel complex that he tortured people in. The difference between Bush and […]