Seriously? This stuff was just laying around out there? Oye.

Earliest weapons-grade plutonium found in US dump – tech – 21 January 2009 – New Scientist

An old glass jar inside a beaten up old safe at the bottom of a waste pit may seem an unlikely place to find a pivotal piece of 20th century history. But that’s just where the first batch of weapons-grade plutonium ever made has been found – abandoned at the world’s oldest nuclear processing site.

…nothing like the old boss. Thank goodness.

Judge Suspends Guantanamo Case at Obama’s Request – washingtonpost.com

In one of its first actions, the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday to seek a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings involving detainees at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — a clear break with the approach of the outgoing Bush administration.

These are so cool!

And how wrong is it that when I first saw this photo, my initial thought was, “Free at last…free at last”?

Very interesting article – especially considering that The Economist endorsed Bush when he ran in 2000.

Assessing the Bush years – The Economist

Lack of curiosity also led Mr Bush to suspect intellectuals in general and academic experts in particular. David Frum, who wrote speeches for Mr Bush during his first term, noted that “conspicuous intelligence seemed actively unwelcome in the Bush White House”. The Bush cabinet was “solid and reliable”, but contained no “really high-powered brains”. Karen Hughes, one of his closest advisers, “rarely read books and distrusted people who did”.