Back in April, I suggested a variety of ways in which candidates might prove that they weren’t elitist, including by going to Sturgis. Well, McCain went to Sturgis and passed that particular test for me, only to have elitist morons on what is reputed to be a comedy site insinuate that he was being inadvertently funny by not realizing the humor latent in his comment about encouraging his wife to

A judge on Thursday jailed indicted Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick for violating the conditions of his bond by crossing the Canadian border without permission. The 38-year-old mayor, once seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party, faces a trial on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and official misconduct stemming from a sex scandal and his handling of a whistle-blower lawsuit. He went to neighboring Windsor, Canada, in July

That seems pretty reasonable to me considering the little I know about the facts of the case. YMMV.

Ace has an (for now) exhaustive compendium of the evidence the FBI claims to have against Ivins, and an interesting coda, which somehow reminds me of some of the dust-up surrounding the Adkisson murders.

The Theatre, Shoreditch, where many of Shakespeare’s earlier efforts were first played. In all likelihood, Julius Caesar was the first played at The Globe.

Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler. The ad’s tag line was “There’s a reason you’ve never heard of ‘bus rage.’” Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said Wednesday a billboard and some tunnel posters near a bus terminal in Toronto are still up and would be removed later in the day.

As I noted before, Eliot F (malaclypse the tertiary) did a fantastic job on the artwork and rebranding for the catchwrestle site. Now, a little over four months later, the guy working on moving the site over to CMS — who has never returned my phone calls, and will only reply to my emails without actual replying to their content — sent me the following email: Gents – pls review.

Unlike the secretive Booooooosh! administration, Obama’s will be transparently transparent. In fact, it will emit more light than is beamed upon it. In short, it will be, at a minimum, fluorescent. Meanwhile, though, sdferr has noticed in the comments this comment, which, I thought, deserved its very own post: Found at JOM, under a comment by Sara, (our Sara) attributed to City-Data.com: 1. Occidental College records — Not released 2.

GITMO! Bob Owens: You should trust your car to the folks who like the star. Background, for the youngsters.