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.

This is an organization I would join!

Quoted: Organizers of the group, Scientists and Engineers for America, said it would be nonpartisan, but in interviews several said Bush administration science policies had led them to act.

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.