October 15, 2003

War
Get Your War On is starting this reverse-chronological posting thing. Go read.
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No
Holy crap, that's a lot of vetoes!
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MacArthur
The Onion is particularly good this week. For example:

MacArthur Genius Grant Goes Right Up Recipient's Nose
ALBANY, NY-According to friends, the $500,000, five-year, no-strings-attached MacArthur Fellowship awarded to Jim Yong Kim earlier this month went right up the 43-year-old scientist's nose. "Kim's efforts to eradicate drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis in Russian prisons and Peruvian ghettos amazed everyone-as did his appetite for top-grade cocaine," Marisa Amir said Monday. "As soon as that first check arrived, Kim was on the phone with his dealer, and two hours later, he was in a hot tub full of strippers." His first installment of money gone, the scientist then returned to the task of developing a whole-cell cholera toxin recombinant B subunit vaccine.

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