March 09, 2008

Sunday Linkstravaganza

No surprise here, but the Bush administration ignored lots of warnings about Bin Laden, and a new book has the details.

So those missing emails from the White House? Yeah. Your choices are deliberate or incompetent, and an expert in the field pokes holes in the White House decision-making on backups.

A report obtained by The Associated Press said soldiers experienced skin abscesses, cellulitis, skin infections, diarrhea and other illnesses after using discolored, smelly water for personal hygiene and laundry at five U.S. military sites in Iraq. Are we surprised KBR is involved?

Chris Clarke's book, Walking with Zeke is out now. Zeke and Chris had a long friendship, and the touching series of posts made me cry on more than one occasion.

Reseachers found that an expensive placebo works better than a cheap one. I'd love to see how homogeneous that volunteer sample is.

Hang on, isn't mouthwash supposed to prevent this kind of thing?

Posted by binky at March 9, 2008 02:17 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Random Thoughts


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And in other news, in case you forgot, people were doing a LOT of drugs in the 80s.

Speaking of drugs...

Posted by: binky at March 9, 2008 03:02 PM | PERMALINK
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