Bloggers react to Bush’s proposed budget:

• Science Progress has the totals for science-based agencies
• Heather Taylor at Switchboard thinks it’s lame
• Gerald Epstein at SEA probes a mystery $2 billion for Homeland Security R&D
• Climate Progress bemoans its anti-efficiency stance 
• Amie Newman at RH Reality Check looks at its treatment of women’s health

Elsewhere:

• Sonya at Enviroblog applauds a CPSC move toward safer furniture.
• Lisa Stiffler at Dateline Earth explains the findings about dust from Africa and Asia.
• Jeffrey Ball at Environmental Capital reports on Wall Street’s new skepticism about Big Coal.  
• April Harding at Global Health Policy wonders why the Economist is succumbing to the siren song of universal bednet giveaways.
• Revere at Effect Measure tells us why the chicken can’t cross the road.
• Jeanne Whalen at Health Blog alerts us to a clever drug ad spoof.