Bill James is God

Postal Experts Hunt for Missing Ballots in Florida U.S. Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots that should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida's most populous counties, officials said. (Reuters)

FUCK! FUCK ! FUCK! Another light goes out. Un-fuckin-believable. BBC - Radio 1 - John Peel

"If you can listen to it without getting a chilly burst of immortality, there is a layer between you and the world." SFJ on The Clash + London Calling in the New Yorker (short-lived link)

Fourth ammendment not dead? Judge: Guantanamo Detainees Can Meet Lawyers Alone (Reuters)

Have you stopped beating your wife? Pat Robertson: Bush told him there would be no war casualties In a statement for the Kerry campaign, adviser Mike McCurry said Wednesday: "We believe President Bush should get the benefit of the doubt here, but he needs to come forward and answer a very simple question — was Pat Robertson telling the truth when he said he didn't think there'd be any casualties or is Pat Robertson lying?" (AP / USA Today)

Without a Doubt one of the most frightening articles I've read in a while. (NYT, registration required.)

Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs

U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS ASSAILS BUSH ADMINISTRATION RECORD ON CIVIL RIGHTS U.S. Commission on Civil Rights - Press Release Was supposed to have been discussed on release, now the formal discussion is postponed until after the election. AP says Republican members attempted to surpress the report from the web too. Full PDF of report is here

There's a right way and a wrong way to do an obit on a "difficult" subject.

How do we grow up in Rock 'n Roll? Anne Powers: As I Get Old

..... 'We don't give a crap. What are they going to do, send us to Iraq?'" For Marines, a Frustrating Fight " Asked if he was concerned that the Marines would be punished for speaking out, Autin responded: 'We don't give a crap. What are they going to do, send us to Iraq?'" (Washington Post)

WTF!!!!!!!! Welcome to CarlLewis.com! - Video (Quicktime)

And we expect these people to figure out current tech??


Patent: Method of concealing partial baldness


Abstract : A method of styling hair to cover partial baldness using only the hair on a person's head. The hair styling requires dividing a person's hair into three sections and carefully folding one section over another.


Applied for in 1975 granted in 1977 United States Patent: 4,022,227