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Let's get the international news out of the way: Killings in Israel. Killings in Saudi Arabia. Prisoner abuse in Iraq. All the troops killed in Iraq. The return of the Republican Guard.

The politics of catastrophe..

Antonin Scalia:

"When I worked for him, he had a set of principles, and those principles led to principled results, which were sometimes conservative and sometimes liberal," said Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford who was also a law clerk to Justice Scalia. "I don't understand anymore how his jurisprudence follows from his principles."

It might be worth noting that Lessig recently argued Eldred v. Ashcroft before the Supreme Court, and Scalia was among the seven justices who decided against him.

Five years of drought in the American West may be not an aberration but a return to normal.

The Long Island Power Authority plans to put a few dozen 425-foot windmills off Jones Beach. The paper edition of this article is accompanied by a lovely photo of windmills off the coast of Ireland. Never mind the clean energy, I just think offshore windmills are gorgeous.

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Yeah. I think the article I linked to has some info debunking the "windmills kill birds" myth--at least, they're not a significant factor in bird mortality.