I’m compiling a list of news stories, ahead of the Big Game on Saturday!
Go Blue!
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Detroit Free Press
The Detroit News
Slate
Consumerist has a great post about a KMart in Philaldephia receiving a box filled with 25 lbs of pot.
Apparently the box was mis-shipped to KMart instead of a residence in the area.
Must have sucked to be the intended recipients, when they found not UPS but local police at their door, completing the delivery and subsequent arrests.
full story from CBS 3 in Philadelphia.
Yes, I’m an insensitive bastard.
I found this story on Fox News:
Woman Fatally Bitten by Snake During Church Service
News flash! Handling snakes can be dangerous!
If you’re in the United States, get out and vote!
Exercise your right; don’t let everybody else make the decisions for you.
With the mid-term elections coming up, the Foley mess, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the strong feelings on all sides over that, this felt like a good time to pull together some quotes on Democracy.
I found the quotes in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Colossal Collection of “Quotable” Quotes
“Democracy was the right
of the people to choose
their own tyrants”James Madison
“If we would learn what the
human race really is at bottom,
we need only observe it
at elections times.”Mark Twain
“Democracy: in which you
say what you want but do
what you’re told.”Gerald Berry
“Bad officials are elected by
good citizens who do not
vote.”George Jean Nathan
“Democracy is the art and
science of running the circus
from the monkey cage.”H.L. Mencken
Democracy is the worst form of government … except for all of the others.
–Winston Churchill
‘Democracy sucks… Cuz at my age i have to do assignments about it’
I noticed the folks from PSM3 pulled their video from YouTube, of the PS3, as Sony’s request. Someone else took the time to snag it and re-up it to YouTube. Enjoy.
Michael Schumacher just announced at the Italian Grand Prix post-race press conference that this will be his last season as a Formula One driver.
Speculation was rampant over the weekend about Ferrari trying to force him out, with rumors of him possibly ending up at McLaren, where he started his career.
Michael and Ferrari drove an exceptional race today, bringing his car home P1. Alonso’s Renault suffered engine failure within the last 10 laps, dropping him out of the points, and bringing the championship battle to the fore. A bare two points separate Alonso and Michael.
I will post links to the interview transcripts after they’re posted online.
BBC News story on Michael’s retirement.
Speed has a story online now.
F1Racing.net has a few quotes from Michael’s press conference.
Here is a release from Ferrari about Michael’s retirement.
Are You a Child of the 80s?
Trapped between the “Baby Boomers” and “Generation Y” is a special generation … a generation we call “Children of the Eighties.” If you can identify with most of the 15 points below, chances are you are definitely one of them …
1. You owned a *real* Rubik’s cube.
2. One word: Izod.
3. You remember when MTV didn’t exist. Alternatively you remember when the M stood for Music, not Mundane.
4. “Alternative” music actually was…and not popular Top 40 tunes.
5. You were a “wanna be”. Madonna, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, etc.
6. “Where’s the beef?”
7. You know how to use a rotary phone.
8. Max Headroom was cool.
9. You know how (or wanted to be able) to Moonwalk!
10. Atari, IntelliVision, TelStar and Coleco were the ultimate gaming systems to own.
11. Leg warmers and headbands alá Pat Benatar once looked really cool to you.
12. You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat-handle comb in the back pocket was cool.
13. Jelly bracelets & shoes!
14. Your hair defied gravity.
15. You are still baffled by the “day glo” clothing trend.
So, are you a Child of the ’80s? You’re facing a long uphill culture battle to stay tuned-in to that great decade, so follow our advice:
* Never forget or deny your 80s heritage. Be sure to start most of your sentences with “Back in the 80s” or “When I was your age”…
* Spend a majority of your time in your late 20s & early 30s obsessing over how much better things were “back then”.
* Never let them see you sweat.
Read more about your shared cultural heritage with other Children of the Eighties in Bryant Adkins’ essay “Don’t Call Me ‘Generation X’ call Me a Child of the Eighties”
I remember when MTV didn’t exist; my parents owned a rotary phone and I don’t deny my heritage. Don’t worry about that!
300,000 people have started to descend upon Ann Arbor.
It’s Thursday, day 2 of the Ann Arbor Art Fairs.
The street outside our office is home to one of the food courts, so any notion of watching my diet has gone out the window, at least through Friday.
If God had not wanted me to consume elephant ears at lunch time, said delights would be more than 50 steps away.
For the husbands forced to carry 5 foot tall garden decorations, adorned with butterflies, gnomes or other such muck, make sure the beer is cold at home. You deserve one.
The shuttle Discovery finally took to the skies earlier today.
I never get tired of watching a shuttle launch. And yes, I’m a dork.
cheers…
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MaRIaH, and 
Doddsie are discussing. 
cp 1:35 pm on November 7, 2006 Permalink
There oughtta be a law – making voting mandatory, as it is in countries like Australia!