This Just In: Bush Hates Puppies, Your Grandma

In anticipation of budget cuts, the EPA is boxing up library materials and documents, ending public access to all EPA materials, and closing several libraries in the Midwest and South. How will this affect the way the EPA works? Well, I suspect it's similar to the way a razor blade to the hamstring would affect Marion Jones, but perhaps I'm being overly dramatic. Let's hear it from someone within the EPA:

“If OECA is involved in a civil or criminal litigation and the judge asks for documentation, we can currently rely upon a library to locate the information and have it produced to a court house in a timely manner. Under the cuts called for in the plan, timeliness for such services is not addressed.”

WHEW! And I was WORRIED! As long as it's going to make it harder for the government to prosecute people who violate environmental regulations it's A-OK by me. You're doin' a heckuva job, Bushy!

via Slashdot, which I read so you don't have to.