Visit my friend at his cafepress storefront, Illustrated Aphorisms, and order your very own "Blagojevich Wanted" t-shirts & totes! (Link) (Image)

I did it once as a kid, really. :freak: I live in IN and I've been calling and canvassing for days in notoriously bloody (R)ed areas. After knocking on hundreds of doors and talking to a few thousand people, I wouldn't be surprised if this state turns blue tonight, but someone's still gonna have to scrape me off my family room ceiling after the official announcement. :bounce:

And now for the news from Lake Wobegone Bellaire. Local paper, Elk Rapids News, correspondent, Victoria Willson, reports on a fire in the nearby town of Bellaire... Tragedy averted at Lulu's Bistro Friday, August 1, Lulu's Bistro opened its doors for the evening at five, only to evacuate the packed restaurant forty-five minutes later. Smoke filled the kitchen and upstairs, prompting a call to the fire department. The source was found to be a smoldering stud... Ya know, I find this sto...

Anyone else feel it?!!! :o

January 1969, that is. I was born 39 years ago today so, I decided to take a brief look back to see what was going on in the world during the month and, more specifically, the day that I was born and found a few interesting items, coincidences, and even a few startling similarities to what is going on right now. So many years have passed, but some things remain the same… Please, help me celebrate my birthday by posting your January 1969 or January 21, 1969 memories or cool trivial history fac...

And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale. ~ William Shakespeare, As You Like It This year's art theme is about nationality, identity and the nature of patriotism. One species of the patriotic urge conflates the nation state with mass identity. Governments, as actors on a worldwide stage, become a surrogate for self, a vast projection of collective ego. And yet, there is another type of patriotic feeling that attaches us ...

TED: Ideas Worth Spreading Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers (Link) TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. (including Technology, Entertainment, Design, Business, Science, Arts, and Global Issues.) The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk o...

First, what concerns me most are the motivations behind writing such a report. I may well be incorrect or out of line on this specific (news?) item. The word ‘obvious’ is subjective. What one sees as obvious may not be at all visible to another. I do, however, see a pattern in how news reports like this are evidence of an attempt to spoon feed people more bullshit in order to convince them that there are boogiemen in the world who we should be afraid of. I am especially skeptical about bad pres...