The Command Post, of which I am proud to be an original contributor, will celebrate its first anniversary this weekend. This volunteer organization has done a good job providing one site for certain types of news. It started with a focus on the War to Liberate Iraq and has expanded to cover breaking news on the war on terrorism and politics. There was an interesting post today that pointed out that the American government, along with its allies, has liberated fifty million people in the last two years.

Signal + Noise reports on a recent study that shows the results of a coin flip are not a 50/50 proposition after all.

Insults Unpunished discusses the geoengineering idea of the "Geritol Solution" - a proposal to dump iron dust in certain parts of the ocean. This results in the massive growth of plankton, which traps carbon dioxide in dead plankton that finally get buried on the ocean floor.

Davids Medienkritick shows German Chancellor Schroeder has a large case of chutzpah. He expects, or pretends to expect, that the US will support the Schroeder's administration for a permanent seat on the UN security council. I don't know if Schroeder is that clueless or is simply desperate about his low support among German citizens. My guess is that he is hoping Bush will soundly reject his idea which might increase Schroeder's support with the anti-American Germans who put him in power. If I were Bush, I would just ignore Schroeder.

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