Morning No: No Clue

by: Natasha Chart

Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 06:00

- The title of 'world's largest science experiment' may be passed from the Large Hadron collider to an experimental fusion reactor to be built in France.

- ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents are now going to have expanded powers to investigate drug crimes. This will be an incredible disappointment both to those who'd take a different approach to the drug war, and those who have been concerned about the brutality of ICE raids on immigrant communities.

- I can see some immediate waste we could cut from the nation's health care budget. (via)

- More from Laurie at A Chronic Dose on Pres. Clinton's healthcare comments at the blogger meeting, including this grim reminder, "Adjusting for inflation, we have two-thirds of the disposable income we had when Clinton left office, and health care costs have doubled." Amanda Terkel at Think Progress has a transcript of that portion of the discussion (via.)

- Moderate drinking is at least unlikely to be bad for you.

- Why are pregnancy and fear so easy to link together? That question almost answers itself. But in case it didn't, here's a graphic explanation.

- If there the world was really much for ironic justice and instant karma, Sen. John Ensign, that bold defender of traditional marriage, would be prohibited by law from either separation or divorce.

- Some ideas on how to teach the nature and process of science.

- Credit card defaults are going as though there's no tomorrow. Or at least as though there won't be any jobs tomorrow.

- Feminism is your friend.

- The Federal Reserve, formerly chaired by a man who didn't believe in consumer protection, is being stripped of its consumer protection authority. Ok, that's hopeful, but still ...

- We would like to see more audacity, please.