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Would someone be kind enough to explain to me why there is not more outrage over this blatant fuck everyone we wouldn't want to see corporate profits dip, Bush administration taking one for their corporate buddies bullshit. January 2009 can't come soon enough.

The Bush administration’s decision to deny California permission to regulate and reduce global warming emissions from cars and trucks is an indefensible act of executive arrogance that can only be explained as the product of ideological blindness and as a political payoff to the automobile industry.

Until recently, if a politician believed the fancies dreamed up by goatherds in tents 2,000-3,000 years ago, they kept it to themselves: a matter of good manners and good taste - and good sense, too. Not for us the ghastly godspittle nonsense and often hypocrisy (remember Howard Dean? "my favourite bit of the New Testament is the Book of Job" [sic] - and not a squeak from anyone: he had a favourite Bible book! that was enough!) of our Transatlantic cousins.

It's not brawn but brains that matter in the rise of crime families among birds.

Now, scientists think they may have found out how and why things find their way into knotty arrangements. By tumbling a string of rope inside a box, biophysicists Dorian Raymer and Douglas Smith have discovered that knots—even complex knots—form surprisingly fast and often. The string first coils up, and then its free ends swivel around the other coils, tracing a random path among them. That essentially makes the coils into a braid, producing knots, the scientists say.

The results' relevance may go well beyond explaining the epidemic of tangled venetian blind cords. That's because spontaneous knots seem to be prevalent in nature, especially in biological molecules. For example, knottiness may be crucial to the workings of certain proteins (see "Knots in Proteins"). And knots can randomly form in DNA, hampering duplication or gene expression—so much so that living cells deploy special knot-chopping enzymes.