China's population control programs are starting to look pretty humane...

Michael Brown must have got hired by Jakarta, because if I'm reading this correctly, the government there basically said, "eh... we knew about the tsunami. but figured we shouldn't tell the people, just in case it didn't happen." Um, yeah... so now a bunch of people are dead. Good job, Indonesian government.
I wish the New York Times could run headlines on happy things like cookies instead of sad things like little kids getting bombed in Lebanon. =( But that would require little kids to stop getting in the way of bombs. And vice versa. And Israel to stop bombing the crap out of civilians. And Mr. Bush to stop being an idiot. None of which will happen because America looks at Israeli-Arab relations the same way it looks at Taiwan-China relations. That means the Israelis, like the Taiwanese, are never ever wrong about anything, even when they are. Looks like Americans are still following the words of Stephen Decatur -- "My country, may she always be in the right, but my country, right or wrong!"
Only Israel and Taiwan are not part of the US... or so the government wants you to believe. =-O

edit: woohoo... bush uses first veto in 6 years to support... south korea's future hegemony over bioscience! i have a feeling pretty soon the religious right is going to start calling for bans on birth control because condoms aren't jesus-approved. where by Jesus, i mean the Catholic Church. and by Catholic Church, i mean that pope who used to be part of Hitler's Youth.