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This is Why They Wanted Hillary Clinton’s White House Schedule? - Towleroad, More gay news for more gay men
The National Archives released 11,000 pages of scheduling documents covering 2900 days of Hillary Clinton’s time as first lady.
So on the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, ABC News used those documents to post a “stained [...]

Free water ice for the first day of spring - Slashfood
For those of you not in the know … water ice is a half sorbet/half shaved ice concoction that is infused with fruit flavors
Rita’s is giving away free Italian Ice in celebration of the first day of spring.  I haven’t had Rita’s in a while, [...]

Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90 - New York Times
Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956. He was 90.
See also Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia, [...]

Other cities dye-ing to know what turns Chicago river green - Online Exclusives
Dyeing the Chicago River Irish green has been a tradition for more than 40 years and at least 50 cities want to know how Chicago volunteers perform the miraculous transformation every year.
Bill King, the administrator of Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day committee, said that [...]

Yesterday was my birthday.
It wasn’t the best birthday I have ever had, but my sister and friends made sure it wasn’t one of the worst.  There were some people at the party that made it a bad party, but they left and I felt so much better.  Its hard having someone that hates you at [...]

Most excellent Spitzer-related media gaffe: CNN - Boing Boing
CNN apologized today for getting on-air analysis of Gov. Spitzer’s legal options from a former U.S. Attorney who resigned after being accused of biting a stripper.
I think that if anything, he would be the perfect person to ask about the legal options a person like Spitzer has.  [...]

Drought could close nuclear power plants - Weather- msnbc.com
Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.
If only we could melt some [...]

National Peanut Butter Day
I didn’t even know what a glorious day it was until I read Happy National Peanut Butter Day! - Slashfood
I will have to have some organic Wegman’s Pb when I get home.  Maybe I will have some chunky AND some creamy!
I like to dip Wegman’s brand low fat triscuits in it.  They [...]

Suspicious package downtown turns out to be empty cookie tin — OrlandoSentinel.com
A suspicious package that turned out to be an empty cookie tin shut down a busy downtown intersection for about 45 minutes this morning.
Oh Noes!  People littering!   Litter and pollution are bad, but honestly, how often are there actually bombs places and how often [...]

DesMoinesRegister.com | Des Moines News | The Des Moines Register
Carol Jontz of Baxter holds a sign Wednesday while joining several hundred supporters of the Iowa Marriage Amendment during a rally outside the Iowa Statehouse.
The Des Moines Register has a gallery of bigots that were protesting equality for all in Iowa.  Carl Jontz was joined by [...]

The Official KFVS12 and Heartland News Web Site | Two Injured in Cairo Stabbing
Police say 34-year old Curtis Williams of Decatur, Illinois, entered the Cut Mart and stabbed two workers.

Couple banned for life from shopping centre and branded ‘terrorists’ - for taking photos of their grandchildren | the Daily Mail
A couple were banned for life from a shopping centre - because they were taking photos of their beloved grandchildren.
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They were thrown out of the centre after they took out a camera to snap the [...]

I hope your 2008 is even better than 2007.

Merry Christmas!

The Transistor’s Birthday - Forbes.com
Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1947, three physicists at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J., built the world’s first transistor. William Shockley, John Bardeen and William Brattain had been looking for a semiconductor amplifier to take the place of the vacuum tubes that made radios and other electronics so [...]