It's Halloween!
Have you found a costume for your kids today? The Onion has this handy guide:
How To Find A Masculine Halloween Costume For Your Effeminate Son
And now, the ITEMS!
ITEM! Remember that kerfuffle about "death panels?" Well, it turns out that Obama does have them, after a fashion. No, not as part of his health reform plan, but as a hold-over from the Bush administration. More here.
ITEM! SoS Clinton has declared that "we're not getting through" to the Pakistanis. The Pakistanis, for their part, apparently feel the same way, declaring that the War On Terror is our war, not their war. Go figure! Antiwar.com weighs in here.
ITEM! Our high school students are mysteriously disappearing, and the school won't do anything about it. In fact, they're the ones behind the disappearances. So, what's happening to half the Junior class on standardized test day? (No, it's not a Simpsons episode.) Find out the scary details here.
ITEM! A school to teach Wicca got tired of being snubbed by the locals in Rossville, Illinois. So they've moved to the logical place: Salem, Massachusetts. The moral of this story? "The churches can scream and yell, but I thought at the end of the day if you proved yourself a good neighbor, people would get past that. I learned that's not true." Yeup. Read all about it here.
ITEM! A list of the things Dick Cheney "can't recall" about the Plame case here.
MICE!
Again, not mine. But notice the cage climbing activity! That's pretty typical with mice.
ITEM! Barney Frank vs. Ralph Nader on financial sector reforms. Good stuff.
ITEM! Cracked.com has the 40 most inappropriate children's book covers ever. Check out #19.
There is also an equally fascinating list of seven secrets only two people in the world know for some reason.
ITEM! Don't bring a knife to a coffee fight. More here. There is a serious lesson in this story .. more than one, actually.
ITEM! Windows 7 got you down? Try Ubuntu 9.10! Upgrading your desktop from 9.04 is a snap.
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