Got a kid who’s into biology? Help him put together The Visible Balloon Dog. Great rainy weekend project. Skeletons of popular cartoon characters Devil Sheep from Hell Genius: Wilfred Bitchin’

Probably should have paid someone to take them for him. Tech Tip: If you’re running FireFox on two or more computers, you’ll want this.

Today’s New York Times has a “Political Memo” from Carl Hulse explaining that it’s hard to be a Democrat: While much of the Congressional political focus has been on the declining fortunes and numbers of House Republicans, House Democrats have their own problem: They are winning too many elections. By prevailing in conservative districts where they ordinarily would not have a chance, Democrats are widening the ideological divide in their

Pretty well done.

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The Center for Rural Strategies has John McCain leading Barack Obama 50%-41% a poll released today of likely voters in rural parts of 13 swing states: New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. The (sorta) good news for Obama is that George W. Bush’s won rural voters nationally by 11 points in 2000 and 19 points in 2004.  A June 2007 CRS poll gave a

Ta-Nehesi Coates has a piece on Bill Cosby up at The Atlantic that is worth a read, though his own opinions might be getting in the way of his understanding of Cosby.  For example, Coates is perplexed by Cosby’s attitude regarding Barack Obama: The strain of black conservatism that Cosby evokes has also surfaced in the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Early on, some commentators speculated that Obama’s Cosby-esque appeals