indications of grave failure

regarding the infamous "hearts and minds" of the iraqi people, things in iraq might be even worse than i thought.

a secret nationwide poll, conducted for the british ministry of defence, has found the following:

• 45% of iraqis believe attacks against british and american troops are justified, rising to 65% in the british-controlled maysan province
  
• 82% are "strongly opposed" to the presence of coalition troops
  
• less than 1% of the population believes coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in security
  
• 67% of iraqis feel less secure because of the occupation
  
• 43% of iraqis believe conditions for peace and stability have worsened
  
• 72% do not have confidence in the multi-national forces

the poll was conducted by an iraqi university research team that wasn't told the data it compiled would be used by coalition forces.

i would like to see the entire poll, and learn more about its methodology.

educational

erection photos. of penes, not erector sets. :) i find the soft-hard gallery particularly interesting.

not pornographic, though of course your definition of pornography might vary; the animated gifs might fall into that category for some.

via metafilter.

in the interest of giving equal educational time, i found no site that's quite the equivalent of the above, but at least there are a couple that show a number of normal breasts, sorted by cup size.

indictment excitement

i'm watching the office of special counsel patrick j. fitzgerald like a hawk, circling. or maybe more like a vulture, really.