Bush Is Putting Team in Place for a Full-Bore Assault on Regulation. Not just in the areas of the environment and energy, but everywhere. Among other tidbits in this article is news of a Harvard professor tapped by Shrub as an appointee for a major regulatory post (whose research on risks is a favorite of big business) who believes low-level dioxin exposure is good for you. At first glance, this anti-regulatory gobbledegook might sound appealing to those of you readers who are of the libertarian persuasion, but is the corporate terrorism against our environment, our pockets and our bodies really the price you want to pay for illusory relief from government tyranny? I was pointed to this article, by the way, by Phil Agre’s Red Rock Eater Digest mailing list. Phil has started to see the new president as a four-letter word; I notice he’s begun to refer to him as “B—.”

Chinese President Jiang Zemin has also had some recent harsh words for Li’l George, says CNN. ‘Jiang is said to have called Bush

“logically unsound; confused and

unprincipled; unwise to the extreme,”

at a high level internal Communist

Party meeting. ‘ And let’s not forget the simple classical epithet, liar: Washington Post or New York Times.