[T]he authors conclude that an authoritarian form of government is necessary, but this will be governance by experts and not by those who seek power.

Ivan Betinov wrote:[sniff] Those magnificent, selfless bastards...willing to sacrifice themselves to become dictators just so's us ignorant proles won't destroy their research grants Mother Gaia...Where do they find this sort of brave soul for the brave new world?

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Maksim, no, it's not the CO2. When the Holy Gore and his acolytes gather together in their priestly robes, Gucci, of course, it's the bozon flux that they generate. The bozon is the elemental particle of irrationality, which can be made to serve political purposes.

Past masters of the bozon were Torquemada, the judges in the Salem witch trials, the Catholic church which put Galileo under house arrest, the Roman emperor who got his soldiers to whip the English channel, and any number of others.

Red Square wrote:Has there been some inhalant-related news lately? A link?

I'll take a mulligan.

Eight-year-old Eathan Harris was originally suspended from Harris Park Elementary School for three days. Principal Chris Benisch reduced the suspension to one day after complaints from Harris' parents.

Harris used a black Sharpie marker to color a small area on the sleeve of his sweatshirt. A teacher sent him to the principal when she noticed him smelling the marker and his clothing.
"It smelled good," Harris said. "They told me that's wrong."

Eathan's father, John Harris, says the school overreacted for treating Eathan as if he was huffing, or inhaling, marker fumes.

"I think it's outlandish," John Harris said. "It's ridiculous."

Eathan shyly shook his head "no" when a reporter asked if he knew about "huffing."
Benisch stands by his decision to suspend Harris, saying it sends a clear message about substance abuse.

"This is really, really, seriously dangerous," Benisch said.

In his letter suspending the child, Benisch wrote that smelling the marker fumes could cause the boy to "become intoxicated."

A toxicologist with the Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center says that claim is nearly impossible.

Dr. Eric Lavonas says non-toxic markers like Sharpies, while pungent-smelling, cannot be used to get high.

On April 7^th, you again devoted a substantial part of your show to the claim of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman that I was behind his prosecution. Your continued coverage of this issue raises questions about your journalistic standards and those of MSNBC and NBC. During your broadcast, Mr. Siegelman referred to Ms. Dana Jill Simpson as a “respected Republican political operative,” a reference it seems you accept because of the frequent attention you give her in your broadcasts.



Have you, during your coverage of Ms. Simpson, ever actually looked into her claims? For example, have you ever asked her what campaigns she worked as “an operative” with me?

And if so, did you check out what she said by calling the candidates who were my clients or their campaign managers to ask if she was involved in those campaigns? Did you review campaign expenditure reports to see if her name appeared as a paid operative? Or did you check with the DeKalb County Republican chairman or activists (such as the Moore campaign chairman, an effort she told the Judiciary Committee she was active in) to see if she really was a “respected Republican political operative?”

A father and his five-year-old son were turned away from their local swimming pool because they were the wrong religion.
David Toube, 39, and his son Harry were told that the Sunday morning session was reserved for Muslim men only.

Hackney Council, which runs the Clissold Leisure Centre in Stoke Newington, north London, claimed staff there had made a mistake.
However, the Muslim-only session was advertised on its website.
Mr Toube, a corporate lawyer, described his experiences on a blog.
"I arrived at the pool to discover that they were holding what staff described to me as "Muslim men only swimming"," he wrote.

"I asked whether my son and I could go as we were both male. I was told that the session was for Muslims only and that we could not be admitted. I asked what would happen if I turned up and insisted I was Muslim.

“There are … issues that quite simply do not have two sides.”
Arianna Huffington on her belief that "the political world is made up of right opinions and wrong ones" in a piece by Ana Maria Cox.

McCain, during a visit to Reno, Nevada, also assailed Obama for saying he would meet with the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when he had not met with the U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus.

"He has said that he wants to sit down with the leader of a country that a few days ago called Israel, quote, a stinking corpse," McCain said.

Commissar Maksim wrote:Elian Gonzalez Joins Cuba's Young Communists

Janet Reno is filled with pride.

Margaret wrote:Is It Illegal to Incite People to Commit Felonies Like Wrongful Arrest, False Imprisonment, and Kidnapping?