news: racism and silliness

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from SLATE:
> The [Washington POST] reports that on Wednesday, security officials at Energy
> Department headquarters refused to admit Rep. David Wu, the
> only Chinese American ever elected to Congress, who was there
> to give a speech. Even Wu's proffered congressional ID didn't
> do the trick. They can be faked, he was told. Admission, says
> the story, required the assistance of two other security
> types and took 15 more minutes.

silliness:
> The [Wall Street JOURNAL] "Washington Wire" has treasury secretary Paul
> O'Neill's penetrating defense of the Bush energy plan's
> proposed expansion of nuclear power: "If you set aside Three
> Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is
> really very good."

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine