Volume 1 Issue 10

November 25, 2002

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Birthday Greetings, Getting Bad on the Bayou, and Eating Turkey

So this week is the last one to submit name suggestions, I know some have said they wanted to but haven't submitted yet. We'll put them up for a vote next week once everyone has gotten back from their Thanksgiving feasts.

Well, first to start, a very happy 21st birthday to Jenna and Barbara Bush, first daughters who can now drink without fear of arrest. The Post has a tribute piece today that discusses some of the other implications of America's stupidest law, as well as quotes from AU and GW students -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34891-2002Nov24.html

Politics does make strange bedfellows: Dick Armey and Bob Barr, having left Congress, are going back to work - for the ACLU -

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/23/politics/23ACLU.html

Look Who's Running for President: The Washington Post profiles Howard Dean -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34440-2002Nov24.html

And CNN reports that Joe Biden may be getting in the mix -
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/11/24/biden.bid/index.ht ml

Down on the Bayou, things are turning just a bit nasty...in a weekend debate Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) apparently told opponent Suzanne Terrell that "this will be your last campaign." Um, I'd get a bodyguard if I were you, Suzanne (btw, another story in which looking at the URL gives away some media/computer techie "opinion") -

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/newsstory/catfight24.html

My favorite foreign despot leader, Turkmenbashi the Great, survived an assassination attempt, sadly disproving my theory he was universally popular, though it was apparently by a former aide who had been "charged" with corruption -

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-turkmenistan-president.html

The Chinese are attempting to use computer dating software and "porn" to get pandas to mate -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2510357.stm

The King of Marvin Gardens: NPR featured a fun story on how Monopoly came to be America's most popular board game. You can listen to the story and check out some other stuff -

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/monopoly/i ndex.html

Here you are Tony, a Python Update: South African officials have now confirmed that a 10-year old was in fact eaten by a python -

http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20021125-2408500.htm

Quote of the Day: "Wednesdays before Thanksgiving are like the last days of Saigon. I think I did that once. I don't think I ever want to do that again. It made Hell look like Club Med." - Travel agent Bob Cullinan, who will be flying from his home in San Francisco to his parent's in Nebraska on Tuesday, just to beat the rush. (The Washington Post)

Turkey Time: Tuesday, 1:25 pm, Rose Garden. That's right, it will be time once again for the President to pardon a turkey, sending it to a petting zoo until it dies from being basically a custom-bred cooking pouch. Lovely. So from the folks at the National Turkey Federation a trivia question. What state breeds the most turkeys? Answer tomorrow.

And your Thanksgiving quote of the day, from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles:
Car Rental Agent : I really don't care for the way you're speaking to me.
Neal Page (Steve Martin): And I really don't care for the way your company left me in the middle of fucking nowhere with fucking keys to a fucking car that isn't fucking there. And I really didn't care to fucking walk down a fucking highway and across a fucking runway to get back here to have you smile at my fucking face. I want a fucking car RIGHT FUCKING NOW!
Car Rental Agent : May I see your rental agreement.
Neal Page : I threw it away.
Car Rental Agent : Oh boy.
Neal Page : Oh boy what?
Car Rental Agent : You're fucked!
Have a great Monday!

Gregory S. Gadren