Ahhhhh.

The fever has broken and I’m feeling back to normal. Which is a good thing, because we’re low on groceries and I have a midterm Wednesday.

IAEA Takes The Nobel

As it happens, a member of my family has worked for the IAEA at 2 different times over the past 25 years, so I’m quite pleased to see this today:

The Nobel Committee praised the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and ElBaradei, a 63-year-old Egyptian, for their battle to stop states and terrorists acquiring the atom bomb, and to ensure safe civilian use of nuclear energy.

Bravo.

I can’t help wondering, though, what are they going to do with the $1.3 million dollar prize? That would buy one heck of a staff pizza party….

Hearsay or Heresy?

Apparently the BBC is doing a series on President Bush and the Middle East. From their press release:

[Palestinian Foreign Minister] Nabil Shaath says: “President Bush said to all of us: ‘I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, “George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.” And I did, and then God would tell me, “George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq

And This Is Depressing

Four decades after a U.S. president declared war on poverty, more than 37 million people in the world’s richest country are officially classified as poor and their number has been on the rise for years.

Last year, according to government statistics, 1.1 million Americans fell below the poverty line. That equals the entire population of a major city like Dallas or Prague.

Since 2000, the ranks of the poor have increased year by year by almost 5.5 million in total.

Per Yahoo/Reuters.

This Should be Amusing

Per the WaPo:

Roy Moore, who became a hero to the religious right after being ousted as Alabama’s chief justice for refusing to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the courthouse, announced Monday that he is running for governor in 2006.

I’m sure the candidate debates will be hysterical.