Science Blogs grows bigger. See this PDF file for details.

Also, tell us what is wrong with the graph!?!?

Listen to this. Rinse, repeat. It will go away.
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A piece in the Star Tribune by my friend John Funk:

Friends and family members were grieving Monday for a 20-year-old Marine from Rochester, Minn., whose death Friday in Afghanistan was called “a horrible loss” by his family pastor….

Click Here for the Whole Story

A few years ago, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, working for Reuters in Iraq, were killed along with several other non-military personnel in a very badly botched US military operation. Much more recently, Wikileaks has released the half hour long video taken from one of the US helicopters involved in the massacre.

You need to go here and read the story, and watch the long version of the video (pasted below). Especially if you are a tax-paying US citizen, because this is your war. This is you pulling the trigger.
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Oh wait, sorry, they weren’t “women” exactly …
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