Spears tops Mr. Blackwell's 'Worst Dressed' list - This is like a Fark-style invitation to the media to come up with the worst picture of Britney Spears they can find. Then again, it's not too hard a challenge, is it?
OK - I have to post something about the Alito hearings. But Enough About You, Judge; Let's Hear What I Have To Say
Judge Alito, who had been sitting without expression through Mr.
Biden's musings, interrupted the senator midword, got out three
sentences, then settled in for nearly 26 minutes more of Mr. Biden,
with the senator doing most of the talking. With less than a minute to
spare, Mr. Biden concluded, thanked Judge Alito for "being responsive,"
then said to Mr. Specter that "I want to note that for maybe the first
time in history, Biden is 40 seconds under his time."
The audience laughed appreciatively.
---------------------------And you though the turkeys had it bad at Thanksgiving; at least there's only 300 million Americans - for 1.2 billion people, it's Eid Mubarak! Streets annually run with blood as sheep and cattle have their throats
cut on pavements and waste ground to commemorate Abraham’s willingness
to sacrifice his son for God. I love when this stuff runs under the "Oddly Enough" section as if it's a one-off story that isn't happening regularly all over the world every year. Talk about taking the bible literally, yeesh. In my attempt at moral equivalency, I will mention that in some sects of Orthodox Judaism a chicken is slaughtered on the afternoon before Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) in a ceremony called kappores.
Although not actually a sacrifice in the biblical sense, the death of
the chicken reminds the penitent sinner that his or her life is in
God's hands. A woman brings a hen to be slaughtered, a man brings a
rooster. The meat is donated to the poor. This is a minority within a minority of the Jewish population though.
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