An FmH reader sent me this blink to her son’s website, for any hoops fans out there. Alex says, “I just turned 10 years old on June 20th and some people call me the world’s youngest blogger. I will share my feelings and opinions about my favorite sport, basketball.” His mother says,

If he could get into the NBA now, he would. But if he doesn’t make it, perhaps he’ll turn out to be a sports writer. Alex provides his insight into the game, the players and some NBA history. Please check it out. He loves to hear from people.

Best of luck, Alex. The future looks bright for you…

“When the 317,647 ballots in MoveOn.org’s online Democratic primary were totaled Friday afternoon, none of the other eight candidates came close to Howard Dean. With nearly 44 percent of the virtual vote, Dean fell short of the majority necessary to garner MoveOn’s influential endorsement and the millions in campaign cash that would likely come with it. But as the clear victor in a cluttered field of contenders, he proved, at the very least, that he is the top pick of well-educated, cyber-savvy Democratic activists who are registered with MoveOn, an organization that claims 1.4 million members in all. Behind Dean in the Internet voting were Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, with around 24 percent, and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., with a disappointing 15.7 percent.” Salon

“Want to become a world champion TTT player? Check out this guide (pdf) which should give you everything you need.”

the great Iraqi Gold Rush is on, and who should be there at the front of the line, right along with Halliburton and Bechtel, but our old friends at WorldCom, perpetrator of the largest accounting fraud in American history.” — Molly Ivins, syndicated

“Slung below its equally innovative mothership dubbed White Knight, SpaceShipOne rides above planet Earth, photographed during a recent flight test. SpaceShipOne was designed and built by cutting-edge aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan and his company Scaled Composites to compete for the X Prize. The 10 million dollar X prize is open to private companies and requires the successful launch of a spaceship which carries three people on short sub-orbital flights to an altitude of 100 kilometers — a scenario similar to the early manned spaceflights of NASA’s Mercury Program. Unlike more conventional rocket flights to space, SpaceShipOne will first be carried to an altitude of 50,000 feet by the twin turbojet White Knight and then released before igniting its own hybrid solid fuel rocket engine. After the climb to space, the craft will convert to a stable high drag configuration for re-entry, ultimately landing like a conventional glider at light plane speeds.” Astronomy Picture of the Day

“An area slightly smaller than Massachusetts was cut down last year.” LA Times

North America’s first legal safe-injection site for addicts will open later this year in Vancouver under a federally funded mandate that will help protect IV drug users from overdoses and diseases spread by needle-sharing. Can you imagine such a compassionate approach south of the border?

(John) Walters, the White House Director of National Drug Control Policy, said in a telephone interview Thursday the program shows an appalling indifference to addiction.

“Drug abuse is a deadly disease,” Walters said. “It’s immoral to allow people to suffer and die from a disease we know how to treat.”

He also called the concept “a lie,” saying “there are no safe injection sites.”

This comes on the heels of Canada’s decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of marijuana, another move that met with irritation from the people in Washington who feel it will jeopardize homeland security®.

“In his dissent from the Supreme Court’s historic decision in the Texas sodomy case, angry Antonin Scalia was right about one thing: The next step is gay marriage.” — Andrew Sullivan, Salon