Here's a link to an Atrios post linking to a New York Times article about Bush-appointed public affairs gremlins trying to tell NASA what is and isn't science and what they can and can't study. Read, as they say, the whole thing; I won't quote any of it, as it'll only make me angry, and you won't like me when I'm angry. (If I get too steamed up my guts may in fact explode out in a chunky bio-geyser from my hernia repair incision. And nobody wants that. Well...There are some freaky, freaky perverts out there in the big wide world, so maybe someone does want that. Whoever they are, they're sick and bad and wrong and bad and wrong and wrong, and probably an intern at the Discovery Institute.)

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! (07/02/06): The Bush-appointed busybody telling NASA scientists to keep a lid on all this science shit so as not to contradict the Party line dropped out of college before graduating to take a Bush campaign job. Which is to say: the administration appoints completely unqualified unskilled political lackeys to force ideological purity on real live practicing scientists. Our tax dollars at work...