Today's Politics: Two Quotations.

"Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor." Source not yet found; this was quoted in a Making Light discussion which I found via thnidu and mtgat.

"Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," said Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland. I don't need to spell out the six letter word that echoes all the louder for not having been pronounced, right?

Today's Science: Cell Phone Studies

Fraud Charges Cast Doubt on Claims of DNA Damage From Cell Phone Fields, in the current issue of Science. My friend dakiwiboid, who brought this to my attention, has reposted a synopsis of the article (since there is a charge for reading the whole thing, although the link above is fairly extensive as well).

So, some actual research is needed. But it does come to my mind that having cell phones 'proven' dangerous seemed to be, for many people, a neat confluence of science and morality; annoying cell phone users risked being punished with DNA damage and the disorders that follow on from it. However science, while it must be practiced with ethics to be any use, doesn't have a moral vector in its laws like that.

The Vegetarian Hundred

Let's go for something life-affirming. I saw this in dakiwiboid's journal as well. *waves to her*

Tigers and Strawberries (syndicated to LJ here) has written a Vegetarian answer to The Omnivore's 100. I think I've eaten more of these than off the other list! ( OM NOM NOM NOM )