What the Detention Bill Means

There is a very nice post along with some great links and a very interesting discussion going on at A Blog Around the Clock dealing with the recent Denention Bill and what it means.  I have little to add, so I’ll just encourage you to go over and check it out.

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A ‘XXX’ Lie

More from Fact.Check.org. Today they report on the campaign of Vernon Robinson, a Republican running for the house in North Carolina. He’s running an add about his opponent, Rep. Brad Miller. In it, the Republicans say that Rep. Miller
spent your tax dollars to pay teenage girls to watch pornographic movies with probes [...]

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HALLELUIA! (pass the plastic baggie)

This is priceless. But if you’re an easily offended Christian I urge you to skip the link below.
Link
Via Pharyngula.

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A Big Piece of News

From the NY Times:
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat
A stark assessment has found that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Yet another new look …

Trying another new wordpress theme.  I think I like it.  I still wish it either was a little narrower or had unfixed column widths (I know that makes no sense – I’ll explain it to you one day …), but I think it’s still nice.  It’s open and easy to read, and I think that [...]

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Gorgeous!

Take a look at this picture:

Pretty cool, eh? I’ll let you in on a secret:

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CDC Changes HIV Screening Recommendations

This is interesting. The CDC seems to be suggesting pretty drastic changes in HIV screening procedures:
For patients in all health-care settings

HIV screening is recommended for patients in all health-care settings after the patient is notified that testing will be performed unless the patient declines (opt-out screening).
Persons at high risk for HIV infection [...]

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These are fantastic!

First, from the O’Reilly Network (no relation to Fox News) via Neatorama:
Proof that programmers have a sense of humor.

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Follow-up to A&R Letter

This is a quick follow-up to this post from a couple of days ago. I’ve now read the two articles referred to, and agree that there’s some funny stuff going on here. I don’t really doubt the conclusions, but I think the authors really do have to explain some things.

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Cool image

I just thought this was cool. It’s from this week’s NEJM and it shows lanthanum in the colon. Lanthanum is a metal and apparently is being used as a phosphate binder in some dialysis patients.

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