"Lipstick"

It all makes sense if in place of "lipstick," you read, the corporate-owned media. (Speaking of pigs.)

Installations at Adam Bork's Dome House in Marfa, TX

Don't forget to go rate the video up if you like it. Also a bunch of cool photos here.

But Can Obama Lead . . .

even though he was never in a beauty pageant?

This'll prolly get me flamed, but . . .



If you have credible support re- any inaccuracies in Frank's factual statements regarding the candidate's respective resumes, pls let me know (preferably with citation(s)).

If you receive an application for an absentee ballot in the mail . . .

please confirm ALL the info before using it.

"Democratic voters in at least two Wisconsin communities have received absentee voter forms from the McCain campaign that -- if used -- could cause their votes to be ignored.

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"[One] report comes from Jennifer Jackson, a Kenosha County supervisor. She says a friend in Middleton received . . . McCain literature [together with] an application for an absentee ballot. The return address was wrong. Instead of the Middleton address for her clerk's office, it was a Madison clerk's office address. Had she filled this out and sent it back, 'her vote would never have been counted,' according to Jackson.

"Jackson -- full disclosure requires us to note that she's a Democratic Party activist -- said: 'My friend is very involved with the Obama Campaign in Middleton. She called many of her friends and found they had the same thing. They debated whether or not to send them in at McCain expense, then they realized the return address was not Middleton but in fact a Madison address.'

"Jackson . . . asks, 'Why mail to established Democrats who have no intention of voting for McCain? Why did everyone with a Middleton address have the same mistake of a return to the Madison Clerk's office? It is clear,' she adds, 'that, not trusting E-voting, many Democrats are absentee voting this year. Did the McCain camp think by mis-routing these applications their votes would not be counted? It is true, they would not have been.'

More here.

Stephen Hawking to Unveil New Way to Tell Time

"The Corpus Clock has been invented and designed by Dr. John Taylor [and] will be unveiled [this week] by Prof. Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author of the global bestseller, A Brief History of Time.

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"'One of my heroes is John Harrison,' [Taylor] says.

"'Of Harrison's many innovations, he came up with the "grasshopper escapement,"' explained Dr Taylor, referring to the device used by Harrison to turn rotational motion into a pendulum motion for timekeeping.

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He calls the new version of the escapement a 'Chronophage' (time-eater) – 'a fearsome beast which drives the clock, literally "eating away time".'"

Hands are not among the clock's features; instead, time is marked by light.

More here; but John Harrison's 1776 masterpiece, the Late Regulator, is possibly even more interesting; more on that here.

McCain à la King

(Thanks, Julie!)

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Photo by Brett Coomer.

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