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Scientists are using (adult) stem cells to regrow your own teeth. Hopefully they'll have a workable human version by the time I need them.

The UN Oil-For-Food scandal keeps boiling along just below the threshold for the press to take much interest. I'm a fan of the ideal of the United Nations, but clearly the current implementation sucks. The question should be whether reform can work, or would it be better to start over with not just a fresh organization, but a better organized one. And by that I mean one that doesn't treat all governments as equals, because they're not; and one that draws its bureaucracy by and large from a stratum other than the current government kleptocracy. An organization that is supposed to represent the moral high ground needs to actually be moral; the failings of the UN are clearly moral failures.

The abuse of Iraqi prisoners is sickening, and needs to be punished fully and severly. And I'm kind of mystified at the claims it was due to MPs not given adequate guidelines. If you can't figure out that you shouldn't be sexually humilliating (and worse) prisoners, adequate guidelines aren't going to help. (yea, more moral failures).

Charles Austin continues his 70's music contest. It needs more Cowbell!

John Kerry is set to get an "unfit" evaluation from his fellow swift boat veterans tomorrow.

Ranger Rick retires and attends the same White House Correspondant's Dinner as Bryan Preston, although it seems that Bryan only attended a pre-dinner cocktail party thrown by National Review (did that hide my jealosy?). Rick (AKA Rich Galen) has returned from Iraq -- giving hope to all us Walter Mittys -- a lean mean fighting machine.

How long have you people known that Tony Woodlief is back writing his wonderful Sand In The Gears and didn't tell me?

My local newspaper ran an article over the weekend about Joe Wilson's new book. The odd thing is that it was exclusively about who he claims leaked his wife's name to the press. Consequently, it was a waste of space as it provided no information since Joe Wilson hasn't a clue as to who leaked his wife name - he just throws out names. Somehow, they forgot to mention that the book confirms that Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, Iraq's then foreign minister, went to Niger sniffing after uranium. I guess that confirmation of British intellegence's assertion that Iraq tried to obtain uranium in Africa isn't newsworthy, since Joe told us before that they didn't get any from Niger. Oh yeah, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf is better known as 'Baghdad Bob', and according to Eason Jordan's revelations of how CNN sat on news to keep access is not a clown, and not a nice guy at all.

Tim at Random Observations how capitalism can be moral through the life and philosophy of a moral capitalist, Charles A. Todd.

It's too bad that Dave Letterman didn't jump to ABC and bump off the air that vain, arrogant, big-headed SOB Ted Koppel.

Cori Dauber points out an example of why people hate the media -- the ghouls went to interview a family because their son was shot in Florida. Seems they got the wrong family, but they didn't realise that and told them their son was dead -- just so they could get their reaction on the air.

Oh yeah, something big was stopped in Jordan (like 80,000 deaths and the destruction of it's current government), but since the press isn't worried, I'm not either. Just because it features