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China Mievelle, author of Perdido St. Station, has given an interview to the Guardian.
He says:

I always had a paranoia about someone pulling my earrings out and tearing my ears, so I always wore them with clasps that undo when pulled. Then about three years ago, this man ripped my earrings out during a political argument. [...]

Quick before the election William Safire wrote a piece alleging that CBS had attempted to throw the election to Kerry by withholding the report of missing munitions at Al-Qaqaa.
Safire claimed this process is so widespread as to have its own term of journalist jargon:

Journalists call that hyping device a “keeper” - holding a story for [...]

ESPN is reporting that Boise St. will accept a bid to the Liberty Bowl.

Boise State (No. 10 ESPN/USA Today, No. 11 AP) is poised to accept a bid to the Liberty Bowl on Tuesday, ESPN.com’s Pat Forde has learned.

Does this mean they can no longer spoil Cal’s chances at a Rose Bowl bid?
Either way, [...]

Pat Buchanan is up to his usual self.
From the November 26 edition of MSNBC’s Scarborough Country:

DE LACY DAVIS (a founder of Black Cops Against Police Brutality): Thank God that the South lost the [Civil] war.
BUCHANAN: Well, we wouldn’t lose it the next time out, De Lacy. Bush got all the red [Republican] states and he [...]

One of Josh Marshall’s readers had an excellent idea.
Require all legislation to be publically available for some reasonable period before any vote. The standard most often quoted is three days. This way we’ll have a fighting chance of discovering all the horrendous tidbits slipped into bills under cover of night before the vote.
Sounds good to [...]

Jason Kottke has audio of Ken Jenning’s purported Jeopardy loss this tuesday.
He also has the answer/question that was Mr. Jenning’s undoing.
If all ends as promised it will mean Ken Jennings’ run at the top ended after over 2.5 million dollars and 74 wins.
Pretty cool.

ESPN has a list of the best Seinfeld sports moments.
#1 is the second spitter episode involving Keith Hernandez:

Newman spots the former first baseman outside Shea Stadium and heckles, “Nice game, pretty boy.” Kramer feels the sting of saliva and yells out, “I’m hit!” before the spit reportedly ricochets toward Newman. Back … and to the [...]

Russel Beattie makes an interesting observation about the nature of blogads.
All posts aren’t remembered equal:

For example, the Verizon Bluetooth post has gotten 11,000 page views in the past month and has around 350 comments at the moment. There’s little reason I’m not monetizing that some more, as most of the people commenting are not [...]

From the third Presidential Debate:

Got four more years, I’ve got more to do to continue to raise standards, to continue to reward teachers and school districts that are working, to emphasize math and science in the classrooms, to continue to expand Pell Grants to make sure that people have an opportunity to start their career [...]

Local curmudgeon Bruce Jenkins confirms a point I made several days ago.
The almost always rule to use when reading Bruce Jenkins is to assume the opposite of whatever stand he takes. This rule becomes 100% true when Mr. Jenkins comments about technology invented past 1955.
First, let us establish Mr. Jenkins position.

Vince Carter wasn’t fooling anyone [...]