American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

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Watch this. The Washington Post and 60 Minutes reveal that 30 years of FBI science in “bullet lead analysis” was junk all along. And that when the FBI found out, the bureau did nothing to let convicted felons know that they might have cause for appeal. Because of the story, now they will. One man [...]

Isn’t This How ‘The Fly’ Started

Yeah, I am aware that this is like seriously old news, especially with the story life-cycle that goes on in cyberspace, but still I have had it sitting waiting to be written about since the beginning of July (I saw the initial write up on the 11th) and, well, it is only fair that it [...]

Space Sickness

As I type this I know my computer is headed for a crash, so I am going to make this brief, to the point and save it before I reach the point of impending doom where I actually loose data.
Anyway, I came across this article the other day about… well, the title kind of explains [...]

Neat-O!

Neatorama has a posting today of the 5 videos you have to see from Videosift, a site that, at least theoretically, sifts through the videos on YouTube and gets rid of all the crap. Of the top 5 that Neatorama claims you need to see I am passing on only one of them- A NASA [...]

Super Soldiers – Day II

Even with all the Super Soldier postings listed yesterday there were still a few I didn’t get a chance to cover, so we are following up with a couple of more Super Soldier postings today, not to worry, thee will be other content as well.
We start the day with a tidbit from Aviation Week: We [...]

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