Going through the headlines in the dread RSS reader, I started to read this

What Happened in Ohio
I don't usually let other people do my thinking for me, but I confess I'd been waiting for Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) to tell me what to think about the voting irregularities that marred the November elections in Ohio.

when this

Accepting Politics In Science
The Bush administration has been hammered over the past few years by accusations that it is "politicizing science," especially through the practice of stacking advisory panels with political partisans. For instance, in 2002 a professor at the University of New Mexico claimed that an invitation to join the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse was rescinded when he failed to express to an agency official his support for President Bush.

caught my eye. Given that I feel bad and incomplete data can screw the best of intentions, and given that I feel that is the Bushista plan all along I thought I'd give it a read.

As of this writing I haven't read either op-ed. I got...distracted

C'mon. Free hair transplant?

Looks to me like Don H. here had a damn head transplant, not a hair transplant.

Lost a little weight, too

Or maybe they took that lonely little bit of frizz in the center of his head, mixed it with his excess eyebrows and glued the result to his chin.

That may not even be hair.

Seriously. Look at that tan. He must have spent a lot of time under a sun lamp which, beyond tanning him, would harden any ceramics applied to his skull.

I'm really not sure why this is annoying me. But it is.