The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously upheld a lower court ruling in the hotly contested Senate race between Democrat and comedian Al Franken and his Republican opponent Norm Coleman. Their ruling rejected claims by the challenger that inconsistent election practices and flawed decisions by lower courts had cost him the election. “Al Franken received the highest number of votes legally cast… Read more »
The polls are closed for the second Loy Baby Pool, and we’ve got a total of 70 contestants. After the jump, a look at everyone’s predictions for when the baby will be born — and the range of birth dates & times in which each contestant would win.
It continues to be a difficult time to be a celebrity. Pitchman Billy Mays, famous for his OxiClean and OrangeGlo commercials, as well as the co-star of the Discovery Channel show Pitchmen, was found dead at his Tampa area home today.
Continuing on the theme of things I didn’t get a chance to blog about when they happened, because I didn’t have a blog at the time: here’s a time-lapse video from April 29, the day we moved into our new house. It shows our moving day from beginning to end, starting at our old condo in South Denver, then ending… Read more »
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When we last left Brendan and his so called “web-log,” it was November of 2008, and we were in the midst of the college and pro football seasons. I was in the middle of lamenting (well, to my friends, not here) that my beloved Pittsburgh Steelers looked OK, but there was no way they would make a deep playoff run… Read more »
In the wake of yesterday’s shocking events, most people seem, unsurprisingly and perhaps even understandably, to be primarily eulogizing Michael Jackson, pop icon and troubled genius, rather than Michael Jackson, accused child molester and all-around weirdo. This reminds me a bit of Richard Nixon’s death, when there was a tendency, at least in the initial days after he died, to… Read more »
I neglected to link to this before, but on the very day I launched this blog, Carlos Miller, a photojournalist who blogs at the site Photography is Not a Crime, posted an update on Scott Conover, the East Tennessee man whose arrest for “unlawful photography” was the subject of several posts on my previous blog — 1, 2, 3, 4… Read more »
Per TMZ. Also per @BreakingNews, which states: “FLASH — LOS ANGELES — “KING OF POP” MICHAEL JACKSON HAS DIED.” He was 50. UPDATE: The L.A. Times confirms. After the jump, I’ve posted a screenshot of the Times‘s homepage right now. Top story: Michael Jackson dies. Second story: Farrah Fawcett dies. Third story: the fiscal crisis that is about to cause… Read more »
I drafted this musing on the 2010 Census, and my wanderings over the past decade, as a Facebook Note back in May, but never got around to actually publishing it. Now that I have a blog again, I figure I might as well go ahead and post it… with apologies to Michelle Bachmann, of course. Something got me thinking recently… Read more »