I am one of the capitol hill worm cultivators :-)
quoted: Meet the new goldfish for urban hipsters.

From Belltown to Capitol Hill, condo and apartment residents are making room for the red wiggler, a slender worm that eats half its weight each day and produces prodigious clumps of poop ("castings") — perfect for enriching pots of tomatoes, strawberries or just about anything else.

i've always wondered about the upkeep costs of these big homes on extreme makeover... this is the problem with that show -- everything is over the top and they don't really seem to take into consideration the family's income and ability to maintain the homes after.

whoa... the paragraph that i quoted below is particularly interesting...who knew!

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A woman can’t switch her phone’s Bluetooth feature on in a public place without receiving a barrage of the love poems and soft-touch photos of flowers and small children which many Saudi men keep stored on their phones for purposes of flirtation. And last year, Al Arabiya reported that some young Saudis have started buying special “electronic belts,” which use Bluetooth technology to discreetly beam the wearer’s cellphone number and e-mail address at passing members of the opposite sex.

this is really sad! vultures are amazing birds.

This is why electability is such a ridiculous thing during the primary...when we have two popular candidates, we should just vote on the issues and which one we want not one who we think will beat the opposition. electability is a media construct that fluctuates constantly.
But this is good news for Clinton going into Indiana, definitely.

Quoted: WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton has a better chance than Barack Obama of beating Republican John McCain, according to a new Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable in the fall than her rival for the Democratic nomination.

I thought this was worth a read

Quoted: If Barack Obama values independent thinking, why is his the most predictable liberal vote in the Senate?

good news for Clinton :-)

Quoted: seattletimes.com: WASHINGTON — Veteran Democratic U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks is backing Hillary Clinton for president.

Washington state's senior member of Congress made the announcement Thursday night in advance of Clinton's planned Friday visit to Tacoma, the largest city in Dicks' 6th Congressional District.

A very good analysis of the Obama phenomenon... with some good questions raised. And, if the new Obama fans do actually turn into voters in the primary, will they stick around for the general or be burned out on elections and politics by then?

Quoted: Tuesday’s primary results did not match the fervor that had been signaled by Barack Obama’s dramatic march of rallies leading up to the vote...
In that dynamic rests one of the central questions about the Obama candidacy, which may well go the heart of whether he can win the presidency. Is this campaign a series of surges of enthusiasm, often powered by the younger voters who form long lines waiting to hear Mr. Obama speak, that set expectations that are not met at the voting booth?

This i think is exciting for Asians (a population that has been called the "sleeping giant" in recent years)

Quoted: But Clinton more than compensated by winning among Latinos by a 2-to-1 margin and among Asian-Americans by a 3-to-1 margin.

"Asians were a surprise," said Bruce Cain, director of the University of California's Washington Center. "It's the first (presidential) election we have seen where Asian voters were a big factor. They are about 8 percent of the Democratic electorate.... The two major immigrant groups voted for Clinton as opposed to the candidate who has the immigrant background."