Quickies

A great history of electronic music aka "space music" from the 1970s.

Quick, who said this?

Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles of morality, but than cannot control our decision. Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code

The Supreme Court in 1992. Check out this excellent post on the SCOTUS inserting religious beliefs into the latest abortion ruling.

Harper's has an excellent piece up about the Bush Administration's efforts to quash the first amendment and reel in freedom of the press. Gonzales is their point man.

I do a lot of criticism of Bush, but he's right about reforming our Food Aid program that helps feed the world. It does need reform, badly. I'm just not completely certain his reform is right because I don't trust the man. I'd like to see more detailed analysis by an outside observer.