how the fuck did I miss this?!

I think it's time for one of those righteous "civilization will end" speeches. That, and a nice big plot of land high up in the Adirondacks or Rockies or Montana or something.

Congress, with only a limited debate, has given the Bush administration a green light for the biggest revitalization of the country's nuclear weapons program since the end of the Cold War, leaving many Democrats and even some hawkish Republicans seething.

read the rest. I'm physically ill. Of course, proliferation is fun. Which, of course, is the exact opposite of the message we're trying to bash into the Iranians and the North Koreans and everyone else who wants these toys from Hell. That's what they are: Toys From Hell.

via a new blog named Just a Bump in the Beltway, found via Team Agonist led by Sean-Paul, fellow genius.


'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
---the Bhagavad-Gita