wash your hands!!

This morning's news roundup included a little tidbit about how staph infections are now the new superbug. Being that I hate being a slave to my hand sanitizer, I decided to see what information might be available from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Unfortunately, nothing on their home page seems to address this topic, or at least obviously, as I was hoping they might do (considering this bug kills more people a year than AIDS, at least, according to the Today Show). And I was also a bit disappointed that the Post's own links to the CDC from this article didn't even include this particular government entity, at all. What gives? I'm afraid that the time it takes me to find this overview of resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, it might be too late.

alms for the Census

We're fast approaching a year ending in a zero, which means: it's Decennial Census time! And, according to the New York Times, the most well-known and mandatory survey in the land is already underfunded: "Whether by intention or neglect, the Bush administration omitted the census from a list of several activities that needed to be exempted from that limit."

Way back when he was running for president the first time, Bush the second let it be known that he probably wouldn't fill out the long form, either, but hopefully somebody reminded him that it's actually illegal to neglect to do so.

homeland security strategy, 2007 version

The White House's latest Homeland Security Strategy is out and it's here. Anybody up for annotating the differences between this one and the last one?