wednesday briefs

Nasa engineers are today investigating what appear to be two instances of debris falling from the first space shuttle to launch since the 2003 Columbia disaster.

Digby wonders why the bush assministration is pressuring credit card companies to double minnimum payments.

For the first time, a study has found an increase in brain-cancer deaths among Gulf War veterans who might have been exposed to the nerve agent Sarin by the destruction of Iraqi weapons in 1991.

More cowbell.