Everyone has an agenda. The following appeared on Al Jazeera's website, Egyptian Economist: Economic Interests Guide the French, Germans, and Russians Toward Baghdad.

So maybe my prediction about the war lasting six weeks wasn't that far off. I just found out Gulf War 1 lasted 6 weeks.

That question that reporter asked Bush and Blair this morning about how long the war will last was so nonsensical. Who can predict how long the war will last? We can't even predict when it will rain, when there will be an earthquake, and after the dot com bomb on the stock markets, we certainly can't predict the profitability of companies or their stocks. Didn't the media brush common business sense aside and say that a company without profits was worth over $100 on Nasdaq?

Who can trust the mainstream media after the way they hyped dot com companies?

A fun link from space.com, The Greatest Myths, Hoaxes & Mysteries in Astronomy and Space Science.

According to this article, life is the greatest space mystery.

Life remains the greatest mystery of science. How did it start? Nobody knows. Does it exist elsewhere? Nobody knows. Now that astronomers have discovered planets orbiting other stars, the second question has taken on some added urgency, helping to spawn an entire new field called astrobiology. For now, astrobiologists are the only scientists I can think of who are more clueless than biologists, because they ask both of the biggest unanswered questions (the two above), whereas biologists mostly realize they have their hands full with the first one.

The following is a transcript of an interview I heard on NPR on March 11 about new military strategies in Iraq if Turkey refused to allow US troops access to its country, Analysis: Pentagon Considering Other Options For Attacking Northern Iraq If Turkey Refuses To Let U.S. Soldiers Deploy There. It's interesting to reread this interview in light of tonight's news of US soldiers parachuting into northern Iraq.