re: #570 Jay C
BTW, Cheryl Rofer at Balloon Juice has a much-better take on that missing-nuclear-materials flap in San Antonio: short version: it was inexcusably sloppy and the Pl and Cs samples are dangerous to anyone who handles them improperly, but said samples were only a couple of milligrams: all the fearmongering stuff about “nuclear bomb material” was sensationalist (and irresponsible) journalism.
Well, that’s…good. I think.
Glad Perry’s department-he-wanted-to-do-away-with is on the ball.