The Death Star: Example Of Bad Defense Contracting

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, another military superpower spent way too much money on massive planet-busting weapons that didn’t work well. Maybe the Defense Department could learn something from this before it finds an X-wing crammed up its thermal-exhaust port.

The EPA’s Most-Wanted List

At The Corner: "(The EPA) has its own FBI-type list of 18 most-wanted environmental fugitives. Their menacing violations include “multiple counts for the blending of motor fuel” (oh my!), selling “R-12 Freon, an ozone depleting substance” (gadzooks!), importing “automobiles that did not meet” U.S. emissions standards (horrors!), giving “indications that the oil-content monitor downstream of the [freighter] vessel’s oily-water separator had been bypassed” (heavens to Betsy!) and aiding and abetting “false entries into an Oil Record Book” (bring out the guillotine!).


The EPA website presents the entire list of these wily, dangerous criminals, complete with downloadable “Wanted Posters.” (I kid you not.) And the EPA website warns: “Do not attempt to apprehend any of these individuals.” My goodness — one of them might spray you with Freon or put a false entry in the maintenance records you keep for your car on how often you change the oil.

The Hitler "AttackWatch" video

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Friday links

BBC Video: How to artificially inseminate a rhino.

Japan Earthquake: Six Months Later.  Many of the photos are before (just post-earthquake) and after (recently).

World’s funniest analogies.  Also, Everyday sayings explained.

Raising Teenagers is Hard — Regardless of Your Species.

Would You Drink Recycled Sewage?

Taxidermy TV commercial of the year.