Greetings!  Hope you had a great weekend.  Making Tacos for 60 tonight so this will be short.  WEATHER ADVISORY. . .National Weather service says we have a risk of snow coming.  Last weekend was great!  Hope yours was too.

Some less run of the mill for you!

AND NOW, THIS

Acne, Accutane & suicide. . .WebMD

Bells will be ringing. . .Boston.com

All About Tawdry. . .NYTimes

YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIKE IT

Cool: the perfect foil to an inconvenient truth. . .NYTimes

Psycho Pelosi. . .The Washington Times

Songs not about women. . .CNN

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Olberman, O’Reilly and the death of real news. . .The Washington Post

EU probes EJ concert. . .Washington Post

Harry Potter no more. . .UsMagazine

The truth & Google street view. . .Boingboing

Mobile Car apps, Zipcar and Car Rental Companies. . .TechnologyReview

Do the dead greet the dead. . .CNN

No escape for Obama. . .Politico

Ready set go:  2 weeks before Black Friday. . .PCMag

Terror vs Pedophilia. . .TheAtlantic

Rigorous pat downs and the flying public. . .Reuters

THE CLONE WARS

Defending Einstein from the barbarians. . .Salon

TS, Patdowns, and molestation. . .CNN

Virus and 1,000,000 chinese cell phone users. . .The Christian Science Monitor

Nanny State and Happy Meals. . .The Huffington Post

Faith, Delusion or excuse for a crime. . .CNN

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

Ready, Set, Charge!  New batteries and rural Africa. . .PopularMechanic

China’s Entrepreneurs . . .TechCruCH

Back together again. . .People

Rags to riches and the Queen Bee of rap. . .Billboard

Potraits without faces are telling. . .CNN

EVERYBODY IS WATCHING

The ‘Must See’ Jon Stewart interview. . .Salon

Sarah Palin does reality. . .CNN

Top 20 Billboard Rock and Rap Tweets. . .Billboard

Justin Bieber new single “Pray” . . .NYMag.com

Gosselin Kids and rage issues. . .Huffington Post

Catch 22: Vonnegut Library opens. . .ChicagoTribune

It’s my parent’s fault. . .TVGuide

Hollywood killed the movie stunt? . . .Salon

There you have it.  TTFN.  Have a great eveing!

Election Day 2010 — The Changing of the Guard?  All I can say is: No more status quo! (see “Preaching to the Choir” – 11.01.10)

YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIKE IT

John Adams  . . .“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”

Thomas Jefferson . . .”I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.”

John Hancock . . .”Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”

And now, the news.

WHICH IS IT?

Federal Appeals court and Arizona’s immigration law. . .  L.A. NOW

Voters Holding Their Noses and Voting Republican. . .NewAmerican

Bullying or harmless schoolyard games. . .Daily Mail

Android or iPhone. . .(VHS or Beta?). . .Computerworld

Chart Beat:  Billboard’s ‘whose on first’. . . Billboard

‘Don’t ask Don’t tell’ or ‘Don’t worry about it’: Federal Appeals court weighs in. . .Daily Mail

IS IT ART?

Top Website Designs . . . Mashable

Spray on DNA mist to catch criminals. . .DiscoveryNews

Indian Neutrino Observatory & the Worlds Biggest Magnet. . .POPSCI

Where Good Ideas Come From . . .technology review MIT

Are Video Games Art? . . .DiscoveryNews

WHOSE YOUR MAMA?

How are you profiled on the Web? . . .gigom

Video Ads that Outwit Spammers. . .technology review MIT

Free Grateful Dead Downloads. . .Rolling Stone

Weighing in on Stephen Fry, Twitter Champion. . .Daily Mail
It’s a mad world!  No reason not to enjoy. . .Have a great day.

Looking binary, date wise.  All good things must come to an end, if only to ensure a new start.  And so the rain is pouring, and loudly, all night. : )

On the eve of election day, it looks like a nail biter from here.  Prayer doesn’t look so bad from this side of the election.

For you, some news. But first, a moment of silence.  It’s the end of the road for Pontiac. . .Daily Mail

TAKE THAT!

Taylor Swift tells the truth. . .The Atlantic

It’s official!  Tough decision?  Sleep on it. . .Mail Online

$4 billion for a midterm election:  No Way to Run a Democracy . . .The Atlantic

Caffeine and Alcohol:  Four Loko hooch and alcohol poisoning on campus. . .NY Times

Shampoo: Hogwash is hogwash no matter what the price. . .Mail Online

An honest account of the difficult game of Life. . .The Daily Dish

ELECTION EVE

Healthcare and Marijuana . . .CNN

Republicans Poll Strong . . . Fox News

Does Health reform = free birth control? . . .RedOrbit

EVERYBODY’S WATCHING

ENCRYPT YOUR WIFI!!!    ”With a $50 wireless antenna and the right software a criminal hacker located outside your building as far as a mile away can capture passwords, e-mail messages, and any other data being transmitted over your network, and even decrypt data that is supposedly protected”. . .CNET News

How very inconvenient for Al Gore . . .Daily Mail

Privacy out the window:  Targeted ads and the “Dependent Web” . . .The Atlantic

More “Dependent Web”:  Facebook might have outed gay users . . .The Huffington Post

North American Box Office: Top Movies . . .Reuters

Sweeps Week on TV, the low down.  TV GUIDE

Yusuf Islam’s (afka Cat Stevens‘) and Ozzy Osbourne duet & more from the national mall. . .The Atlantic

More Stars play halloween dress-up. . .Daily Mail

Yes We Can and 9 other great advertising coups. . .Mail Online

PREACHING TO THE CHOIR

Alcohol is the worst drug. . .CNN

Home Prices Slide. . .CNN

Personal income slides . . .CNN

Banks are lazy?  BrokerAgentSocial

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

In New York, you can sue a 4 year old. . . NY Times

Take a minute to watch this video about the oldest holocaust survivor, an amazing portrait of an amazing woman, her faith, and the music in her soul. . .AliceTheFilm

7 Health Problems That Can’t Wait . . .Reader’s Digest

From a forwarded email . . .

Have a great day!  Get your ballot in the mail.  BE COUNTED!

Good afternoon!  Here’s another in a winning streak of sunny days.  The Orcas Island Community Church rocked (jigged?!) this AM with Hailee Grantham and Pam Wright on the flute and fiddle, respectively!  Hands were clapping and toes were tapping!

Here now, some news items that caught my eye. . .

SAY WHAT?

Kate Hudson’s annual Halloween Bash and a picture of Leonardo DeCaprio as you have never seen him . . .Daily Mail

“I read the Constitution for the Articles” and more from The Rally to Restore Sanity. . .Fox News

5 Reasons Americans are so wrong about major economic facts. . .The Atlantic

‘Women don’t really like Sex’ says openly-gay Twitter champion (?!) Stephen Fry . . . Daily Mail

Obama’s Comeback begins on Wednesday morning. . .Fox News

Warning:  Renewing your vows in the Maldives may result in international embarrassment. . . . Daily Mail

“Inspired beers for saints and sinners alike” but not for witches, apparently . . .Fox News

AMERICAN POLITICS, BRITISH STYLE

Bill Clinton on the stump. . .Daily Mail

‘Listen up Everybody!’ President Obama on the stump. . .Daily Mail

THE BEGINNING OF THE END?

5 Zombie Economic Ideas that refuse to die Foreign Policy

1200 new species discovered in the Amazon–pink river dolphins, beautiful poison dart frogs . . . .CNN

The best in flagrant election advertising? Foreign Policy

Just a smidgen.  Enjoy the day!