Computerworld has a great article about the state of elections countrywide. Here’s the entry for Maryland.
Make sure your vote is counted. Register for an absentee ballot (Maryland) today and make sure you return it before the due date. With all the bullshit surrounding Deibold touchscreens and reports of fraud, this election counts more than ever.
Vanity Fair has the 9/11 NORAD tapes online, with transcriptions and audio. It’s interesting that 1. the official timeline was misrepresented, and 2. Cheney made such a big deal out of the deliberations to shoot Flight 93 down, when he wasn’t notified about any of it until 15 minutes after the attacks were over.
A Federal judge threw out the MD. Wal-Mart bill. I wonder who got paid off for this one?
Ten good reasons to keep religion out of politics. Because we elect assholes like this, who are dumber than a box of hammers. Perhaps you should spend a little more time reading your Bible and understanding it instead of trying to ram it down our throats, Congressman. (For the record, I had a brainfart and forgot Kill and Adultery, of all things, but I remembered the other eight. I’m a heathen.) (Youtube link)
Balls Of Steel.
Having finally seen the video, I’d have to say DAMN. Somebody buy this guy a wheelbarrow for his nuts.
Revisiting Desert One.
Mark Bowden, who wrote Black Hawk Down (the book), wrote a feature for The Atlantic on the failed hostage rescue attempt in 1980. I heard the NPR interview this afternoon and stumbled on the excerpt later.
Broken Windows Theory. From the Boston Globe as well. I find this theory fascinating. There’s good info here-more reading to be done. (via)
PR Flack Resigns From NASA
Dude was a 24-year-old Bush appointee, and was trying to squash NASA’s global warming scientists. Oh, and he never graduated college. (via)