Knoxnews.com: *
Officials at the Y-12 National Security Complex are so pleased with last fall’s security experiment - using radioactive waste as an antiterrorist barrier - they may expand the effort. […]
These guys are using radioactive materials as a fence. No, seriously. They’re not dumb, they’re thinking outside the box!
Plus, it’s not just a […]

Hee hee funny (Quicktime).
{ Feministe }

Hello, gsa.gov. What are you?
GSA Historical Highlights
[…] GSA’s original mission was to dispose of war surplus goods, manage and store government records, handle emergency preparedness, and stockpile strategic supplies for wartime. GSA also regulated the sale of various office supplies to federal agencies and managed some unusual operations, like hemp plantations in South America. […]

And so on.

…is a privilege, not a right.
(that… that couldn’t be nitecryptic, could it?)
{ August J. Pollak }

Restart.
The Observer:
British and American troops are to be granted immunity from prosecution in Iraq after the crucial 30 June handover, undermining claims that the new Iraqi government will have ‘full sovereignty’ over the state. Despite widespread ill-feeling about the abuse of prisoners by American forces and allegations of mistreatment by British troops, coalition forces will […]

Star-Gazette.com:
[…] Results of the Nurse-Family Partnership are eye-opening, Shannon said.
Research tracked 400 low-income, unmarried women in Chemung County 13 years after they left the program. The results were compared to counterparts in a control group. Among the findings:
- 79 percent fewer cases of child abuse and neglect among the families who went through the program […]

House Minority Leader shows some fuckin’ Leadership; receives death threats, matrimonial offers
Yo, Hillary? This is how it’s done.
“The emperor has no clothes,” Pelosi, D-California, told reporters on Thursday. “When are people going to face the reality? Pull this curtain back.” […]
“The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak […]

Body & Soul hasn’t been updated in about ten days.
Worth the wait, though (and there’s much more):
[…] ABC cites evidence from Specialist Jason Kenner, who claimed the prisoner was brought to the prison “in good health.” An hour after he was brought to Abu Ghraib, after “intensive questioning by intelligence officers,” he died from severe […]

Saint Death offers Mexicans solace
In Mexico, the world’s second-biggest Catholic country, an unofficial cult of death is winning followers, from influential politicians and police officers to drug pushers and violent criminals.
On a sidewalk in Mexico City’s lawless Tepito district, gangsters and ordinary housewives rub shoulders as they pay homage before a shrine to Santa Muerte, […]