I’ve got nothing to add except that I hope RG3’s injury isn’t as serious as it looked and that he makes a speedy recovery. 

Some tremendous stuff in here about the making of GWH.

An interesting read about one of the world’s best pick pocket’s who uses his talents for good instead of ill.

His answer from his GQ interview is just a tad nonsensical…

“I’m not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that’s a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States. I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow. I’m not a scientist. I don’t think I’m qualified to answer a question like that. At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to answer that. It’s one of the great mysteries.”

As the author of the Slate piece notes…

“Senator Rubio is exactly and precisely wrong. Science, and how it tells us the age of the Earth, has everything to do to do with how our economy will grow. By teaching our kids actual science, we can guarantee the future of this country and its economic growth. By hiding it from them, by equivocating about it with them, by providing false balance between reality and wishful thinking, what we guarantee is a future workforce that can’t distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t.”

Of course, Rubio also on the Science, Commerce, and Transportation committee, but you know, no big deal.

Somehow I missed this one when it came out last month. An interesting look inside google maps.

Exactly what it sounds like. An entertaining and honest interview.

Interesting read about how Canada has strangely stepped up efforts to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

A timely and interesting read given that I’m currently writing a paper on the topic of the role of courts in public policy formation.

A devastating op-ed from the Times on the inactivity of the Bush administration to take the threat of OBL seriously in the months prior to 9/11.

The direct warnings to Mr. Bush about the possibility of a Qaeda attack began in the spring of 2001. By May 1, the Central Intelligence Agency told the White House of a report that “a group presently in the United States” was planning a terrorist operation. Weeks later, on June 22, the daily brief reported that Qaeda strikes could be “imminent,” although intelligence suggested the time frame was flexible.

But some in the administration considered the warning to be just bluster. An intelligence official and a member of the Bush administration both told me in interviews that the neoconservative leaders who had recently assumed power at the Pentagon were warning the White House that the C.I.A. had been fooled; according to this theory, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein, whom the neoconservatives saw as a greater threat.Intelligence officials, these sources said, protested that the idea of Bin Laden, an Islamic fundamentalist, conspiring with Mr. Hussein, an Iraqi secularist, was ridiculous, but the neoconservatives’ suspicions were nevertheless carrying the day.