Chris Munro

"State Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R), who dropped from the special election in Upstate New York yesterday, has now thrown her support to Democrat Bill Owens. "It's not in the cards for me to be your representative, but I strongly believe Bill is the only candidate who can build upon John McHugh's lasting legacy in the U.S. Congress," said Scozzafava in a statement released moments ago. Owens said he was "honored" to have won Scozzafava's endorsement, noting: "Now more than ever we need bipartisan solutions to help bring jobs to Upstate New York to get our economy back on track and move our country forward."" - Chris Munro from Bookmarklet

Before settling in at Triptych Cryptic almost 10 years ago, I too started blogging using GeoCities. - Chris Munro

"At a concert tonight in Swindon, UK, Morrissey collapsed after performing just one song, "This Charming Man," and was taken to a local hospital. According to The Guardian, he's in stable condition, and was conscious when the ambulance showed up." - Chris Munro from Bookmarklet

"Many of the 14,000 or so students who have taken Harvard’s wildly popular course “Justice” with Michael J. Sandel over the years have heard the rumor that their professor has a television avatar: Montgomery Burns, Homer Simpson’s soulless ghoul of a boss at Springfield’s nuclear power plant. The joke, of course, is that Mr. Sandel — who at one time or another taught several future writers for Fox’s “Simpsons” and shares a receding hairline with the evil-minded cartoon character — is the anti-Burns, a moral philosopher who has devoted his life to pondering what is the right thing to do." - Chris Munro

"According to the Big Apple Coalition of Reason in their statement, the New York City campaign is just one component of a "nationwide effort" by the United Coalition of Reason that will see billboards and postings in transit systems across the United States." - Christopher A Carr

Whales are awesome. A bit of megafauna pon farr. - Chris Munro from Bookmarklet