ON THIN ICE
"The prognosis isn’t good. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service listed the polar bear as a threatened species last year after a protracted political battle (the short version: oil companies feared the listing would limit access to new oil fields in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, 30 million acres of polar bear habitat, so the Bush administration stonewalled the listing until after it had auctioned off the oil leases)." -- Bruce Barcott
IN DEFENSE OF TRUTH
"The novelist Louis Begley ends 'Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters' with a question: “Will some day in the near future the crimes of the Bush administration, like . . . the crimes against Dreyfus, disappear under the scar tissue of silence and indifference?” His answer wittily echoes the apocryphal assessment of the French Revolution, sometimes attributed to Chairman Mao, sometimes to Prime Minister Zhou Enlai: “It is too soon to tell.”' -- Ruth Scurr
More:
22 million Bush-era e-mails found
It will be years before the public sees any of them.
Related:
Lieberman - "Independent"
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Bonus Round
Hello out there in big-bang land
Hubble captures galaxies 13 billion light-years away.
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Footnote:
Joe Lieberman cartoon by Pat Oliphant