OK, I confess: I am confused.

Feds Launch Science.gov: Fourteen scientific and technical information organizations from ten major science agencies have collaborated to create science.gov, a free Web portal providing access to science-related reports, databases and other information. Dubbed "FirstGov for Science," the site's resources include technical reports, journal citations, databases, federal web sites, and fact sheets.

And yes, it sounds like it will be a very useful resource. (Allowing, of course, for Shrubya's administration removing scientific data sources that don't agree with their political positions. But I digress.) But ... what, precisely, is the difference between science.gov and the late, lamented PubScience, directly targeted by publishers as a competitor not allowed by law, and the soon to be lamented AGRICOLA? I don't get it.

And isn't NTIS Fedworld supposed to be the search engine for all government web sites? Why reinvent the wheel? And what's the difference between science.gov and SciTechResources.gov, which is "in association with FirstGov for Science" (aka science.gov)?

Yes, I am definitely confused.

I'm generally a middle-of-the-road kinda guy. You know, capable of voting for Democrats if they will keep their hands out of my pockets, or Republicans, if they will keep their laws out of my bedroom.

So I'm generally amenable to being persuaded that the current administration, whoever it is headed by, may be headed in the wrong direction.

But referring to the current President of the United States as "Shrubya" generally puts me off, and makes me less likely to listed to evidence from his opponents.

I had a similar response to conservatives who referred to the previous administrative head as "Slick Willie."

Lamont