Quoted: Is it just a coincidence that Halloween and America's national elections usually fall just a week apart? Politics is scary, definitely more frightening than ghosts, goblins and Frankenstein's monster. No wonder Presidential masks are so popular during Halloween: What's more horrifying than going to the polls to vote for the people who will determine the fate of the world? And if you're preferred candidate loses, uh oh, there goes the planet.

Don't mix politics and music.

Quoted: Gambian griots find themselves under as much pressure to pluck the right note in praise of the president as journalists to pen Yahya Jammeh's praises.

Quoted: "Challengers, in general, and Democrats, in particular, have made marked improvements in fundraising this election cycle," said Michael E. Toner, the Republican-appointed chairman of the ...

Great...

Quoted: And they concluded in a report issued yesterday that it would take only one person, with a sophisticated technical knowledge and timely access to the software that runs the voting machines, to change the outcome [of a national election].

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So it is okay to have secret illegal prisons, kidnap, torture, and kill, but if you talk about it, you get fired. Truly scary.

Quoted: Several officials said Mary O. McCarthy disclosed classified information on secret prisons to the Washington Post.

My mother got married yesterday in Virginia!

(No, I wasn't there since I was told it would be a quiet 3-person ceremony, but Vince invited 150 people at the last minute.)

Quoted: Virginia's lawmakers took a break yesterday from political wrangling, legislative bickering and partisan squabbling.

Oops.

Quoted: A prominent Austin lawyer was listed in stable condition after the vice president accidentally wounded him on a quail hunt.