Agent Green

This fool would like to make Fusarium oxysporum the next Agent Orange.

Congressman Mark Souder has been busy in his personal war on drugs. As well as fighting against the legalisation of cannabis for medical use (see below), the Indiana Republican has slipped a provision into a bill calling for the fungus Fusarium oxysporum to be used as a biological control agent against drug crops in foreign countries.

The CIA, however, has had moral doubts about using the fungus. In 2000, a CIA official told The New York Times that it was unsafe both for humans and for the environment: "I don't support using a product on a bunch of Colombian peasants that you wouldn't use against a bunch of rednecks growing marijuana in Kentucky."

If you are proposing something so outlandish, so sick, that even the CIA has moral doubts about using it you really should think about looking at yourself a little more closely in the mirror.

7:09

As of 7:09 p.m. today when I handed in my take home Statistics exam I have been finished with the first year of my MBA. Details to follow, but I am currently a little drunk so I shouldn't even be posting this much.

Things I Now Know After Going To Minneapolis With The AC Nielsen Crew

1. Brits pub still exists, and it still has a 10ft painting of the Queen Mum
2. The News Room serves great food.
3. If I lived in the twin cities I would spend a huge amount of time on Nicollet Mall
4. The rest of the AC Nielsen students are all terrible at pool. I rule.
5. Taste testing is a very exact science and it is very difficult to become a taste tester
6. There is much wetland in rural Wisconsin and Minnesota
7. General Mills has a large number of UW-Madison alumni
8. If you tell Americans that they won the American Revolution because the British cared more about other regional disputes they get a little upset :-)
9. Part of that is because you called it "The American Revolution" and not the "War of Independence"
10. The British lost the War of Independence because they wore red coats. RED COATS!!
11. If you drink enough to be still drunk the next morning you can avoid hangovers by remembering to hydrate at that point... or so I heard.
12. I did learn Chauncey's porn name, but I forgot.
13. That last one is going to get me lots of hits via Google.