A visit to a Columbus neighborhood where Democratic groups registered voters this year shows the challenge the Kerry campaign faces. Of the six new registrants listed on county records on a single block, three had recently moved, one could not be found and one was listed at a nonexistent address.

One of the gravest dangers is that partisan teams will challenge many, if not all, voters in selected precincts, with the goal of slowing voting to a standstill. In Ohio, every challenge will require a deliberation over whether the person in question should be allowed to vote. In presidential elections, lines in urban polling places are often hours long under normal conditions. If the challengers can add 10 minutes per voter, waiting times may become so long that thousands of voters will simply give up.

You are glucose. People feed off of you. You are sweet, caring, and a source of energy for everyone around you. You can inspire others with your creativity and depth, and you can keep people alive when in times of famine. People love you...or at least the way you taste.

I sit down to eat. Dining nearby is a young girl who looks to be about 6-years-old; she gazes at my shirt with a look so forlorn, I expect to learn that Dick Cheney just stole her crayons. Her mother arrives and gives her a hug of consolation. The girl starts to talk, but I can only make out "Bush shirt," which she says to her mother as she points my way. The mother turns and glares, shaking her head at me. I start to wonder what sort of person I am to inflict this on a poor child.

NEW YORK -- In hindsight, perhaps it was a mistake for the Yankees to raise a "Mission Accomplished" banner above their dugout after Game 3.

Earth's spin warps space around the planet, according to a new study that confirms a key prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

After 11 years of watching the movements of two Earth-orbiting satellites, researchers found each is dragged by about 6 feet (2 meters) every year because the very fabric of space is twisted by our whirling world.

Circus Peanut Jello Salad
1-package (8oz) circus peanuts.
1-6oz package Orange Jello.
1-16oz can Mandarin Oranges...drain. Save the syrup.
2 cups boiling water
1 3/4 cup Mandarin Orange Syrup... if not enough add water to make 3/4 cup.
2 cups cool whip.

Cut peanuts into small pieces. Dissolve the jello in the boiling water. Add the peanut pieces, stirring until disolved. Drain the syrup from the Mandarin Oranges... adding enough water to make 1 3/4 cup liquid. Add to the jello, chill until partially set. Fold in oranges and cool whip. Pour into a 9 x 13 pan. Chill until firm.

"My concern with the schools is that, in our area at least, in the event of any so-called "code blue" emergency--terrorist, biohazard, chemical release, severe weather, all the schools would go into "lock-down." and prevent any children from leaving school even if their parents come to claim them. There are not enough police to protect every school. Clever terrorists could create a code-blue diversion by releasing suspect smoke/gas, for instance, or by making a threat, solely in order to precipitate the lockdown. The terrorists would then have their choice, just in this [the Washington, D.C.] area of 300 unprotected schools, none of which were designed with safe havens or even the most basic security features. If they chose wisely they could find among their hostages the children and spouses of movers and shakers in the government."

Via Josh Marshall, the Department of Education apparently forgot what the Department of Health and Human Services got in trouble for earlier this year (P.S. -- it's "news videos" like this, featuring the same damn "reporter".)

Apparently not content with labeling Ted Koppel as a supporter of Iraqi insurgents and terrorists, the broadcasting group (which owns both the ABC and Fox affiliates here in Columbus) is voluntarily airing an hour-long Swift Boat Veterans for Truth commercial (cleverly disquised as a "documentary") in prime-time. Do you suppose they have to announce "the SwiftVets are responsible for the content of this hour-long polemic" at the end of the show, in the place of "this SwiftVets program was produced before a live studio audience"?