Richard Pryor, the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, died Saturday. He was 65.

Pryor died shortly before 8 a.m. of a heart attack after being taken to a hospital from his home in the San Fernando Valley, said his business manager, Karen Finch. He had been ill for years with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease of the nervous system.

I will miss him.

Comedian Richard Pryor Dies At 65

I MADE WONKETTE!!! Well my christmas tree cam did! Woohoo!

http://demcenter.senate.gov/treecam/

Happy Holidays from Washington DC.

One Tree Hill - Wonkette

It sounds like science fiction: a brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of "living" computer. But in groundbreaking experiments in a Florida laboratory that is exactly what is happening.

we have much bigger things to worry about now... once google becomes self aware and develop machines that gain power by eating meat... we're as good as dead.

Why this brain flies on rat cunning - Science - www.theage.com.au

Cryptic inside the beltway gossip.

The link you have isn't cannonical. The better one is the one I meme'ed already. Yours points to a specific story...

--timball

ABC News: The Note: Rooting Interest

The ones in the know read The Note. It's ready weekdays by 11am.

Even though it's in plaintext it's more cryptic than anything thing out there.

--timball

The Note

I'm watching this now... it's good. This is why we need pbs. I'll post more later but so far the best 6min investigative journalism ever.

FRONTLINE: the storm | PBS

On a July evening in the Capitol, Vice President Dick Cheney summoned three Republican senators to his ornate office just off the Senate chamber. The Republicans - John W. Warner of Virginia, John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina - were making trouble for the Bush administration, and Mr. Cheney let them know it.

The three were pushing for regulations on the treatment of American military prisoners, including a contentious ban on "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." The vice president wanted the provision pulled from a huge military spending bill. The senators would not budge.

"We agreed to disagree," Mr. Graham said in an interview last week.

That private session was an early hint of a Republican feud that spilled into the open last week, as Senate Republicans openly challenged President Bush on American military policy in Iraq and the war on terrorism. In the center of the fray, pushing Congress to reassert itself, were those same three Republicans.

In the Senate, a Chorus of Three Defies the Line

Friends, Buzz & Click 3PO is here! - Nashville Events

Anyone who doesn't have plans for this Saturday needs to come out and experience the joy and wonder that is Nashville's only annual electronic music showcase! We've given administrative duties to Buzz and Click over to Nashville's best radio station (91.1WRVU) and they've honored us with another great year of music running the gamut from melodic electronica to experimental noise and everything in between! There's a great lineup this year, including appearances from at least 2/3 of Venus Hum, Let's Say Baltimore, and Jensen Sportag. Huh? Oh, yeah - Logickal is definitely blowing it up as well.

It's all happening Saturday - Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th in case ya didn't know) and it all starts at 8pm. It can all be had for a measly $5 (for 10 acts!) that goes to benefit WRVU (That means that you might also want to think about buying CDs from the artists...). You can follow the link below to read what the Scene had to say about it, and take a gander at the full lineup.

Hope to see a bunch of ya there!

-EDIT-

I should add for the record that it's happening at The 5 Spot. Direction are here

-EDIT-

-Jeremy

The Scene Sez:
http://nashvillescene.com/Stories/Arts/Our_Critics_Picks/2005/11/03/Our_Critics_Picks/index.shtml

The Lineup (in order of appearance):

8pm Matt Hamilton
8.5 Birdfeeder
9 Let's Say Baltimore
9.5 Bluff Duo
10 Logickal
10.5 Satellite City
11 3kStatic
11.5 Athena Blue
12 Jensen Sportag
12.5 Tomorrow Ishikawa

Friends, Buzz & Click 3PO is here! - Nashville Events

Its worse than we could have ever imagined.

Legal experts consider the 55-year-old Alito so ideologically similar to Justice Antonin Scalia that he has earned the nickname "Scalito."

In 1991, in one of his more well-known decisions, he was the only dissenting voice in a 3rd Circuit ruling striking down a Pennsylvania law that required women to notify their husbands if they planned to get an abortion.

He also wrote the opinion in 1999 in a case that said a Christmas display on city property did not violate separation of church and state doctrines because it included a large plastic Santa Claus as well as religious symbols.

Oh, wait, no...that's about what I imagined.

Regrettably, I was not able to meme the original version of this story in which poll results about American's desires for the next justice were included. 46% said that overturning Roe V Wade was a bad idea. Here's a guy that thinks Mormons are living the good life, and he can't possibly represent the 46% of people who don't want to chuck Roe V Wade.

Hey...isn't that figure 5 percentage points higher than Bush's approval rating?

-janelane, heading for the hills

CNN.com - Bush nominates Alito to Supreme Court - Oct 31, 2005

This is the actual 22pg indictment.

--timball

libby_indictment_28102005.pdf (application/pdf Object)