Using Guns to Save Lives - a collection of news stories on armed self-defense and home-defense.

Concealed gun debate heats up at Capitol -- notice how the reporter fails to mention that there were only TWO people from CeaseFire Oregon, and 25 people on the pro-freedom side. Typical.

Tortured Data Confesses!, a global-warming story, gives us a fine example of how the Socialist/Environmentalist left will simply lie when the facts aren't on their side. In the Global Warming arena, that's all the time.

Okay, so why the Arsenic binge? Dunno. I get a bug in my ear, and I have to chase down as much data as I can just to try to figure out what the real story is, behind the morality tale that the popular press are spinning. Probably a doomed undertaking, but I happen to find it rewarding. Shame I don't get paid for that sort of thing, but at least it lets me exercise my UofC training in skepticism and reliance on original sources.

TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Mona Charen on the Arsenic Rule - key fact: EPA says the 10 ppb level will cost $65 million per statistical life saved -- and I don't know if that's using the pro-rated method or if EPA did the dishonest front-load trick again, i.e. UNDERstating the cost. Yay.

New Bangladesh Disaster: Wells That Pump Poison long on hysteria and heartstring-plucks, short on hard numbers. Typical NY Times crap. Contains some useful data.

Food toxins (1/4229) (Oz) more details on naturally occurring toxins in foods.

Safety wherein we discover that Arsenic is the 20th most common mineral in the Earth's crust. Hmmm.

Penn State News Mother Nature's Toxins -- a short article on what toxic substances occur naturally in foods we eat.

A good day, though I remain vaguely depressed. My taxes are weighing on me more than they really should. I just find the process of figuring my taxes to be stressful and upsetting and all around unpleasant. This is leaking into the rest of my life.

The constant travel for work may also be a factor. I fret more over Heather's health.

And our income is way down with the new job, but we're not controlling our costs the way we need to. It's bad. I find that stress-inducing.

On the up side, I got to spend a week with my darling girls, and lived to tell the tale. My back is nearly 100% better. I had a productive work day. And I'm loved, which is so amazing I try not to think about it too long or too hard, lest I go blind.

More later.