Political Briefs
June 29, 2008
- Charlie Black, McCain's advisor, says a terrorism attack would help McCain. McCain offers a hand slap, which sounds more like "don't tell people what we're thinking," than "we don't think that." [McCain Distances Himself From Top Adviser's Claim That Terror Attack Would Help McCain]
- Blackwater using cache of AK-47s. Murdering people abroad, violating the law at home:
- The Large Hadron Collider will not eat the world. The fears are ridiculous. Big black holes have big gravity because they are big objects made small whose mass remains the same. The gravity exerted by the tiny particles in the Hadron collider will have the same gravitational pull as a cherry sitting on the table next to you. Are you irresistibly drawn to the cherry? I think not.
- McCain advisors step away from Bush, but not too far