1) “A thirty-five-year-old man on death row in _______ faces execution tonight for a murder he didn’t commit. Jeff Wood is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6:00 p.m., unless Governor ________ grants him clemency. Wood was an accomplice in a 1996 convenience store robbery. He was sitting in a truck outside when the [...]

This video, put together by Slate, features two adorable fluffy kittens running on a treadmill, set to voiceovers from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It’s much better than watching the real thing.

Pow! Bam! Guess Who? Not Gonna Tell You! While we’re anxiously teetering on our laurels waiting for Obama’s Boy Wonder to fly in his yellow cape, some men hope that Obama’s Robin is actually, um, a Catwoman. (Michael Moore swears Obama’s VP should a should be a certain Kennedy and Nader believes is none other [...]

This is a good point-by-point breakdown from MoveOn.org about why the Dems shouldn’t be so sure that Obama is going to win. Most interesting fact: most of the candidates that were polling well in the summer, lost in the fall election.

The Los Angeles City Council ban on new fast food restaurants in South L.A. might be a step in the right direction (depending on who you talk to), but it’s going to take a lot more work and a good deal of political wrestling to solve the obesity epidemic in America, let alone Los Angeles.
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If you’re interested in reading a summary of completely asinine insights, check out this August 21th post on the NY Times’ Freakanomics blog, The Plight of Mixed-Race Children.
Right off the bat, the whole premise of the paper is baffling to me. Plight? Really? A mixed race kid might become our next president. How ‘bout [...]

Now you can drag Fido in the political debates by getting pup his or her very own candidate t-shirt. Pets Vote offers the “Bark Obama” or the “John McCanine” style for your dog. It’s ridonculous.

Talk is Cheap: Rampant speculation continues over who Obama will (or will not) choose as his VP running mate.  It’s Biden! Bayh is out! Mehh.  The papers are saying the announcement will come anywhere from 10 minutes ago to Thursday.  Many in the media seem to agree that Obama-rama laid a turd in his chapel [...]

Jon Stewart isn’t the only irreverent person to watch during the elections. Trace Crutchfield of Current TV is set on terrorizing the good people of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Denver during the nominating conventions, via his series, “Unconventionally Yours.” Here’s a peep.

Hot on the heels of last month’s story about the BlogHer conference, which generated much controversy, not so much because of the content in the well-done story, but because of its placement in the Style section, there’s another story about female bloggers. This time the piece lands in the Technology section.

Interestingly, it almost has an [...]