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...why Obama has to act like he hasn't spoken to Governor Blagojevich recently? It really doesn't look good to have to backpedal and call your chief of staff 'mistaken,' especially when talking to someone committing fraud doesn't mean you were also participating in it.

Especially given that there's wiretapping evidence that Blagojevich had no hope ( Read more... )

From this Daily Telegraph article:

• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He is left-handed
• He has read every Harry Potter book

OMG - he's such a geek, I love it!

• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice ( Read more... )

A friend of mine is in the Peace Corps in Kenya, and this is the blog she posted about the election response there:

"Kenya has succommed to Obama Mania! There are parties going on in Kisumu and Nairobi.  People are talking today of nothing but the American election. Thursday Nov. 6 has been declared a public holiday (Obama Day) and there have been, ( Read more... )

Is there ever a national crisis so grave that Congress should not observe its religious holidays? If so, have we reached that point now ( Read more... )

My visit West was brief, but productive and fun. Thursday was the extra day I'd given myself in order to guarantee that I'd make it to LA in time for the naturalization, so since all my travel was copacetic I went to Venice Beach, then to the Mt Wilson Observatory in Griffiths Park, then to visit friends in the I.E.

Then on Friday it was game time! ( Read more... )

Today I received the summons for my interview. NOT three months from now, as I was assured by the interviewer, and NOT with a month's notice like he had also said. I have to be in LA a week on Friday, so this vacation of ours will be...somewhat curtailed. And Elliott will have to move into Durham by himself. And I will miss all the getting-to-know- ( Read more... )

Ok, this is a complex and convoluted story that will make you question your 'faith' in humanity. Ready? Alright.....

Once upon a time, a college student attended a mass and decided not to eat the wafer that was placed in his mouth during communion. He took it home, and showed it to his non-Catholic friend. A complete shitstorm ensued, and there was ( Read more... )

An acquaintance recently got a DUI because of an accident he caused when he fell asleep at the wheel (just tired, not on any substances).
He had house arrest this week, and they had to take all the alcohol out of the house for the 2 week duration.

Shouldn't he just have been forced to sleep 12 hours a night?

...Oh, and I got a speeding ticket today ( Read more... )

    Short-term visitors to Canada frequently assert that empathy and social rituals requiring humility and passivity are more often observed among Canadians than among other population groups in North America. In this study, we limited our scope to the Vancouver TransLink public bus station to explore whether this difference in behavior exists, and ( Read more... )