From the current issue of Reason (print edition): “Washington, D.C., joins the list of cities using photo radar to catch speeders. The cameras are triggered when drivers go even 2 mph over the limit. Some consolation: Officers themselves have had to pay fines for tickets received while speeding to emergencies.” Were Dante alive today, he’d surely add another ring in Hell for those local politicians who insist on using photo

“The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI are investigating a possible plot to kill Gov. Jeb Bush with a truck bomb in Tallahassee, law enforcement officials confirmed Thursday. “The governor, who had been out of state on a fundraising trip, was ‘safe and in good spirits,’ FDLE officials said. He returned to Tallahassee late Thursday from a fundraising trip in Pennsylvania,” The Miami Herald reports. The story about

David Brooks provides some interesting background on the relationship between Enron and members of the Clinton administration in his Weekly Standard piece, “Enron and the Clintonites.” Here’s the gist: […] the connections between the Clintonites and Enron remind us that the scandal is not the donations. The scandal is what gets done by federal officials in return for the donations. And while the Clintonites received less money from Enron than

“U.S. forces in Afghanistan have recently been informed that several more of Osama bin Laden’s top henchmen have been killed in U.S. airstrikes over the past three months, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday.” The New York Post reports that “captured al Qaeda prisoners have told American interrogators of the deaths of 10 to 15 senior al Qaeda leaders in U.S. strikes that were not previously known, Rumsfeld told reporters.

We at protein wisdom are going to take this weekend to develop some “extended blogs” — tackling such issues as Ted Rall’s latest imbecility, pernicious kid-lit icons Curious George and Scooby Doo, the Village Voice, and the good folks who support PETA (and, it seems, certain politically-connected chickens). We urge you to check in often…