Kennewick Man has been a celebrity in my local community for some time now. Salon's Juno Gregory reviews Elaine Dewar's book about the first American's. Even if one were to disregard the fact that Kennewick Man is many thousand years older than nearby tribes, there is the problem that this area was pretty much uninhabited by any particular tribe. Typically tribes just passed through here while on the way to more hospitable destinations. (The Yakima, Snake, and Columbia rivers all merge here but the topology is predominantly sagebrush and sand.) No tribe makes an ancestral claim to the land that contains the Kennewick Man site. But as noted in the article that didn't prevent the Corps of Engineers from using him as bargaining chip with whatever tribe (in this case the Umatillas) they needed to mollify.

While the governments and political parties wrestle with pollution and global warming, "green gazelle" entrepreneurs are generating profits and conservation with pollution-mitigating technologies.

OK, I’ll bite. I held off as long as I could but I just can’t take this any more. This guy popped up on blogdex because he had an article that argued that Apple computers were evil. The fact that the MAC OS is built from a kernel derived from antecedent known as Darwin really set this guy off. What really toasts my biscuits is how mindless characters like this cast such a bad light on rational Christianity. It also gives me some sympathy for Muslims who are saddled with characters like bin Laden representing their faith to the world.