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from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/the-palin-brand/?hp In the midst of one of the most precipitous political crashes in the Mountain West, Sarah Palin made a mad dash into Boise on Friday… Vaughn Ward, the Republican congressional candidate from Idaho…When told that Puerto Rico was not a country, he said, “I don’t care what you call it.” On Tuesday, this [...]

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations. … from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis The zoo hypothesis is one of a number of suggestions that have been advanced in response to the Fermi paradox, [...]

from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/groundhog-day-for-oil/?hp Wish it weren’t so, but I fear my lasting memory of many trips to Prince William Sound will be of hunched-over workers with toothbrushes, trying to scrub black tar from shivering birds and sea-worn rocks in the Alaska spring of 1989.All the images were staggering: The birds looked lost and stunned, their coats [...]