May 27th, 2006

This is eight-and-a-half million more votes than the most popularly elected president has ever received in the history of the United States of America (President Ronald Regan in 1984 who received 54.4M votes). Airbag - 900.  

Southern states now have another distinction: the highest rates of new HIV/AIDS infection, the highest rate of STDs, as well as the highest rate of teen births. iMAPP.org | Institute for Marriage and Public Policy  

If and when I decide to use my body to create another life, I’ll start making decisions on behalf of that potential life. Until then, my body is mine and mine alone, and I’d really fucking appreciate it if everyone else would regard it that way as well. Fucking hell. Shakespeare’s Sister  

This is new law, specifically that “the federal Stored Communications Act protects private e-mail from civil subpoenas” — that means that ISPs and other entities who store email have the law on their side when people sue their customers. Boing Boing: EFF scores win against Apple: bloggers’ sources are protected  

I contacted a few people I know, and one Capitol Hill aide told me, “This is typical. The Capitol Police are like the cops on the Simpsons and we have bunch of Kent Brockman TV media types cheering on their incompetence.” The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » ‘Sound of Gunfire’ on Hill  

Of course, it was enough to fool Tweety and Nora O’Donnell once again, but they both get wet panties from everything Bush does. The Left Coaster: Open Thread – Staged “Mea Culpa” Edition  

Simply put, the stories published as news read like cheap novels. Thoughts of an Average Woman: Cheap Novels Published as News