There is a front page Washington Post article by James Grimaldi on the Smithsonian losing oil money from the American Petrolium Institute to the tune of five million dollars for its Ocean exhibit. This is a setback for Cristian Samper the acting Director of the museum. The exhibit would be in the Natural History Museum. Five million dollars is a lot of cash; no matter how you cut it, so Sampler must be in very real pain. I have a mixed view about it, because I have a jaundace view of oil money anyway. A lot going on in the Smithsonian Natural History. Good or bad! I just cannot tell yet, but it is on my radar and maybe yours?
On A 3 is a story by Peter Baker about Gore being honored for his Nobel Peace Prize, at the Whitehouse, by Bush (sqirm! sqirm!)…talk about the odd couple for sure, and Bush should sit through, An Inconvenient Truth. He actually might learn something!!!
On real important things is an article called, U.N. Global Warming Report Sternly Warns Against Inaction, by Doug Struck. It is a scary, realistic assessment of Global Warming that you can only hope is being read by the Bushies and the Inhoffs of the world, because it is in the Washington Post, NOT!!!. Didn’t the IPCC, who wrote the report, share the Nobel with Gore? Anyway it is a must read for all Global Warming wonks and an article that everyone needs to read.
Matt
