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Friday, November 25, 2005 

Only in America...

...could a man as incompetent as Michael Brown turn lemons into lemonade, by starting a consulting company on disaster preparedness.
“If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses — because that goes straight to the bottom line — then I hope I can help the country in some way,” Brown told the Rocky Mountain News for its Thursday editions.

Brown said officials need to “take inventory” of what’s going on in a disaster to be able to answer questions to avoid appearing unaware of how serious a situation is.

Boy, I hope he's going to provide more pearls of wisdom than that. According to the article, "companies already have expressed interested in his consulting business." Hey, companies considering hiring Mike Brown--I have actual experience and education in this area, and I work cheap! I'll even throw in a money-back guarantee: no disasters bigger than the one Brown made of Katrina.

(Seriously, though, someone please tell me this is a joke...please?)

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  • I'm a mom and a scientist, your basic stressed-out, wanna-have-it-all-and-do-it-all Gen Xer. Recently transplanted from Ohio to Iowa, I've spent most of my life in the midwest (with 4 years of college spent out east in "soda" territory). My main interest, and the subject of my research, is infectious disease: how does the microbe cause illness? What makes one strain nasty, and another "avirulent?" Are the latter really not causing any disease, or could some of those be possible for the development of chronic disease years down the road? Additionally, I've spent a lot of time discussing the value of teaching evolution, and educating others about "intelligent design" and other forms of creationism. My interest in history of science and medicine is also useful as a way to tie all of the above interests together. [Disclaimer: the views here are solely my own, and do not represent my employer, my spouse, that guy who's always sitting by the fountain when I come into work, or anyone else with whom I may be remotely affiliated.]
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