Planet Socks : How to play: Print out a page for each person you'll be watching the Presidential Debate with. (You may wish to print out several pages if you plan on playing more than one round.) Be sure to refresh this page every time you print, as the squares are assigned randomly each time. If President Bush or Senator Kerry say the phrase, bring up the topic, or do the action marked on a square, mark off that square. The first person to mark off an entire row (either horizontally, ver...

From WCBS News : EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. (CBS 2) A south suburban Chicago wedding reception comes to a shocking end when cops responding to a call about loud noise allegedly attack the bride and her father with a taser gun. Wow, that's a bad way to end a wedding. I wish I had spent more time reading about disastrous weddings when Mrs. blogic and I were preparing for our own... it would have saved us a lot of stress. Hearing about fiascos like this definitely would have lowered the bar on how ...

From the Boston Globe : "The fact is that today's 'Republican' Party is one with which I am totally unfamiliar. To me, the word 'Republican' has always been synonymous with the word 'responsibility,' which has meant limiting our governmental obligations to those we can afford in human and financial terms. "Today's whopping budget deficit of some $440 billion does not meet that criterion," Eisenhower wrote. Eisenhower, a former American ambassador to Belgium and an author, was registere...

From BBspot : Reasons Why You Just Saw Porn on My Computer Screen 11. Wanted to get some names for people we should pray for this week. 10. You weren't supposed to be back from lunch until 1. 9. I'm studying to be an Ob-Gyn. 8. Making a list of sites to block the kids from going to. 7. Doing research for the " Tom Cruise or Gay Porn " quiz. 6. I wanted to make sure I was doing that right. 5. Just making sure our daughter hadn't fallen in with the wrong people. 4. I had to v...

From BBspot : Reasons Why You Just Saw Porn on My Computer Screen 11. Wanted to get some names for people we should pray for this week. 10. You weren't supposed to be back from lunch until 1. 9. I'm studying to be an Ob-Gyn. 8. Making a list of sites to block the kids from going to. 7. Doing research for the " Tom Cruise or Gay Porn " quiz. 6. I wanted to make sure I was doing that right. 5. Just making sure our daughter hadn't fallen in with the wrong people. 4. I had to v...

From the Harvard Crimson : “I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged,” Scalia said. Yes, that's a real quote. From yesterday. This is not satire. I was surprised to see it, although I admit there's nothing about sex orgy-dom that inherently contradicts Scalia's legal doctrine. Still, it's not what I would expect from him, and how often do you hear a Supreme Court Justice say something like that. It makes me like him a little more...

From the Associated Press : WASHINGTON - If matching presidential candidates to their positions on basic issues were like a "Jeopardy!" category, most Americans wouldn't earn a single dollar. Importing drugs from Canada? That's a Kerry issue, but nearly half either didn't know or thought Bush also supported changing federal law to allow for drug imports from Canada. Making abortions more difficult to obtain? Nearly one-third of those surveyed didn't know Bush alone supports more restri...

From Reuters : MONTREAL (Reuters) - Fans of the Montreal Expos prepared to bid adieu on Wednesday, as Canada's first big league baseball team appeared set to move to Washington. I feel for Montreal, but after living in DC for five years (go Adams Morgan!), I'm pretty jazzed to see the District finally getting a team. It's the largest metropolis without one. This decision does make baseball less international in at least two ways: (1) Duh, Montreal is in Canada, won't have a team now and (...

From the San Francisco Chronicle : Washington -- President Bush portrays his position on Iraq as steady and unwavering as he represents Sen. John Kerry's stance as ambiguous and vacillating. "Mixed signals are the wrong signals,'' Bush said last week during a campaign stop in Bangor, Maine. "I will continue to lead with clarity, and when I say something, I'll mean what I say.'' Yet, heading into the first presidential debate Thursday, which will focus on foreign affairs, there is much ...

From Toasted Pixel : Many voters are unhappy with this year's impending elections. Perhaps it's because we're faced with two of the most dismal Presidential choices since Andrew Jackson was elected on the "Kill All Native Americans" platform. To help voters, we've assembled the opinions of all your favorite heroes and villains. Read over their individual political alignments and the reasons behind their choices. They may be eye openers. Name: MEGATRON Political Alignment: DECEPTICO...

From Online Washingtonian : Members of Congress work hard on creating a positive image, so we usually know little about them that they don’t want us to know. But their aides know a lot—who’s smart and who’s dumb, who’s gutsy and who’s a blowhard. There's some surprising stuff here. Turns out that Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who I see as kind of a do-nothing, is seen as the best leader. People don't seem to like John McCain very much. Hilary Clinton is honored as both one of the...

From the Weekly World News : Here are some foolproof ways to tell if your wife is making dirty movies behind your back: -- Every couple of weeks she has to fly to California to care for a "sick aunt." -- When in bed, she just lies there until you yell "Action!" -- Just as you're about to make love, she asks, "What's my motivation?" -- She keeps getting mail addressed to "Patty O'Plenty." -- Whenever you go out, drooling men ask her for her autograph. -- She looks suspicious...

From the Weekly World News : Here are some foolproof ways to tell if your wife is making dirty movies behind your back: -- Every couple of weeks she has to fly to California to care for a "sick aunt." -- When in bed, she just lies there until you yell "Action!" -- Just as you're about to make love, she asks, "What's my motivation?" -- She keeps getting mail addressed to "Patty O'Plenty." -- Whenever you go out, drooling men ask her for her autograph. -- She looks suspicious...

From Yahoo News : NEW YORK (AFP) - An incident this week in which former pop star Cat Stevens was deported from the United States to London as a "no-fly" terrorist risk was caused by a spelling error. Stevens, 57, gave up his successful pop career in the late 1970s, taking the name Yusuf Islam and converting to Islam. He had been travelling from London to Washington on Tuesday when his flight was diverted to Bangor, Maine, where he was detained on "national security grounds" and summar...