... and this right here, ladies and gents, is a properly executed ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

(Still makes me cringe...)

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Keith Olbermann on California passing Prop 8

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Catching up with Rachel Maddow's podcast (since I have a habit of nodding off sometime around 9:30)... Anyway, this line made me giggle:

"You may have already hauled your empty champagne bottles out to your blue recycling bin..."

Why, yes, we have. It was a bottle of St Germain Brut Blanc de Blancs :)
(technically a sparkling chardonnay, but

"So much death... What can men do against such reckless hate?"

There's always...


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Gen. Colin Powell on "Meet the Press" last Sunday:

"I'm also troubled by... not what Senator McCain says but what members of the party say and it is permitted to be said. Such things as, 'well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.' Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian. But the really ( Read more... )

If you're a fan of The West Wing, or an Obama supporter, or both (or even neither), check out this Maureen Dowd column... it's a conversation between Sen. Obama and former President Jed Bartlet. :)

Aaron Sorkin Conjures a Meeting of Obama and BartletIs it weird that I can hear Martin Sheen and Sen. Obama delivering this ( Read more... )

Farrokh Bulsara (Freddie Mercury to us) would have been 62 today. But a 62 going on 32, I'm sure... :)

My favorite performances from the 1992 tribute concert:

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Johnny Depp's £1m gift for Great Ormond Street, the hospital that saved his daughter's life

Wave bye-bye to the 'Zoe mane'...


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