You know what I love about Barack Obama’s campaign for the Presidency?

His candidacy for the Democratic nomination will be indeed measured almost completely on the character of Sen. Obama’s words, and not the color of his skin. Obama’s going to have his detractors that will try to base things on race, and even Sen. Obama’s wife mentioned something about skin color yesterday (it was actually about Obama’s detractors, but it’s her voicing the quote that made the news…

but it’s going to be Obama’s political stance that wins or loses this for him. Not his color. I expect Jesse Jackson will have something to say on this eventually, but if it’s an appeal based on race, it’s just another version of the race card.

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Scooter Libby’s trial is moving into farce status, which doesn’t surprise me. Libby could have told every journalist he knew and apparently didn’t. Journalists yesterday testified to that. You know, these guys are journalists — before there was a case, you would think that this information would have been… I don’t know… published? I guess you can’t publish a negative.

If Libby did anything worth punishing, it’s not for the initial charge, it’s because of something that happened during the investigation of the charge.

You remember how that works, don’t you? You have whacko opponents of a President who want to impeach him from day one of the Presidency, hound him and investigate everything about him and eventually realize there’s nothing you can impeach him on until you catch him in a lie about a blowjob you wouldn’t have found out about unless you were searching for other stuff to impeach him on.

I realize it’s a legal tactic, but understand it IS politically motivated.

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The computer geek columnist in the Houston Chronicle writes about all manner of computer things
in articles and a daily blog and even though he is writing a book on Vista, he has tried out Mac computers, using sample machines.

He purchased a new MacBook notebook for his own personal use, and when it arrived, even went through the Mac Geek ritual of photographing every stage of opening the thing and unpacking the MacBook.

And then he tried to boot it up.
It was a bit like the Windows version of the Blue Screen Of Death.
The MacBook was Dead On Arrival.

Readers of this blog know I’ve already pointed you to author Carly Phillips’ story on her MacBook death and while I know it’s got to be a terrible experience with equipment failures, when we’re talking about Apple Computers — whose products do sell for a premium over other computer products that do approximately the same things — to see failures out of the box (or in Carly’s case, three major failures in a year of use) is just plain sobering.

Is the cost really worth it? Perhaps.

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“Spider-Man, Spider-Man,
Does whatever a spider can.
Spins a web, any size.
Catches thieves- just like flies.
Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man.

Is he strong? Listen bud.
He’s got radioactive blood.”

WAIT! STOP RIGHT THERE!

Do you mean to tell me that even Spider-Man’s SPERM is radioactive?

So, when he sperminated his wife Mary Jane, she was filled with cancer causing radioactive spunk?

YEP!

“Like a spider, crawling up inside your body and laying a thousand eggs of cancer… I killed you.”

All together, say it with me…

“EEEWWWW!”

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I’m not going to say anything about Anna Nicole Smith updates until Jimmy Carter claims paternity of little baby.

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Speaking of Jimmy Carter, I was watching Antiques Roadshow last night, and learned something — Carter filed a grievance in Maine to keep his birth name off of the voting roles as he wanted to be called “Jimmy Carter” and not “James Earl Carter”. Apparently, back then someone else with the first and middle name of “James Earl” (Ray) was still a widely known name and Jimmy didn’t want that accidental association.

Remember that if you ever see “Barack Hussein Obama” on the ballot.

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    * Sex gets shoved to the bottom of the to do list for women. And when they do have sex it becomes just another task.
    * Women are not getting their emotional needs met during sex. An orgasm might not be the point.
    * Many women strive for unrealistic physical perfection seen in the media and are unhappy with some aspect of their physical bodies.
    * Women dont ask for what they want in bed, fearing their partner will be hurt or leave them.
    * Medications such as antidepressants can reduce a womans libido and ability to reach orgasm.

There. I just saved you the cost of the next three Cosmo magazines.

… and a year’s worth of therapy.

Live Science

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Oh, and don’t take asprin during the latter stages of your pregnancy
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… your baby’s future sex drive depends on it!

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Both HD and Blu-Ray copy protection software took years to develop and just weeks to crack.

Doom9 forum

In a strange way, I wonder if this will actually protect the movie theaters. Perhaps there’ll be a longer time between a movie in the theaters and the HD/Blu-Ray DVD that will get copied and distributed.

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Finally,

Do Not Ask For Whom The Feather Tickles

Everyone chatting up the fact that Voldemort got his demon on with a stewardess in the lavatory of a Australian jet.

It’s the magic wand, with the phoenix feather inside. That’s just has to be the draw here. Voldemort has one, and Harry Potter does, too.

I wonder if the wand with the phoenix feather tickles?