The Silver State Chronicles

They should subject the ‘male’ figure skaters to tests in 2010, too!

Now, that’s an unusual headline! You don’t read stories like that every day! Yahoo reports..
China ’sets up Olympic sex determination lab’
Olympic host Beijing has set up a sex determination lab to test female Olympic athletes suspected to be males, state media [...]

Earmarks: The Alien Menace
The fine folks at Reason Magazine made this great video about some of Congress’s wasteful spending. It includes a special look at SETI, the long-time Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence project that hasn’t found any evidence of interplanetary communication signals since the late 1960s.