The Media and the Energy Department

It would seem that CNN has very little faith in the new DOE leader, recently appointed by President Bush and confirmed earlier this week by the Senate. After a mainly boilerplate article about how the leader of my funding agency wants to drill for oil in wildlife preserves, you get this great explanation about the DOE:

"The Energy Department, with a $23 billion budget, runs a network of nuclear weapons research laboratories and has over 100,000 employees and contractors." (True; the lions share goes to maintaining the nuclear stockpile.)

In the 'Your E-Mail Alerts' section, there's a nice reminder on the topic of 'Nuclear Warfare!' Yikes! ;)