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Emergency treatment may be only skin deep: Scientific study measures doctors' unconscious racial bias (thanks, dsgood)

Secret to beating shyness revealed ... tentatively: Genes may play a role, but there are ways to overcome it, experts say

How to Suppress the First Amendment: A Manual

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I'm wearing a brown blouse for the first time in, well, I don't know how long.

What color(s) do you wear least of all?

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( In my communist utopia )

This post inspired by this news item: Boys like blue, girls like pink and there isn't much anybody can do about it, researchers said on Monday in one of the first studies to show scientifically that there are gender-based color preferences.

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Accredited Home Lenders Shuts Down Much of Its Business Amid Mortgage Turmoil -- "Accredited Home Lenders said it will cut its work force to 1,000 people -- from 2,600 at the end of June -- and close 65 branches. The company will immediately stop accepting applications for home loans in the U.S., though it will honor the loans it has already committed to finance."

The Fallout from a Deportation

Speaking of colors and gender

S.C. prisons leader backs pink penalty

South Carolina's prisons director on Tuesday defended a policy of punishing inmates who perform sex acts by dressing them in pink, despite a lawsuit claiming the rule subjects prisoners to ridicule.

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Diamonds Nearly as Old as Earth

Autumn Snow Predicts Winter Weather

Conflict of interest much?

Justice Dept. argues limits of FOIA law

Opening a new front in the Bush administration's battle to keep its records confidential, the Justice Department is contending that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

The department's argument is in response to a lawsuit trying to force the office to reveal what it knows about the disappearance of White House e-mails.

The Office of Administration provides administrative services, including information technology support, to the Executive Office of the President. Most of the White House is not subject to the FOIA, but certain components within it handle FOIA requests. Last year the Office of Administration processed 65 FOIA requests.