This is an amazing piece of accidental wildlife journalism. I am surprised it was only #7 on Time’s top ten animal stories of 2007. Watch the entire 8 minutes. It is worth it.

Incredibly cool tutorial for a unique use of the WiiMote.

It should have been Condoleezza Rice’s finest hour as US secretary of state: at last President George W Bush was hosting a Middle East peace conference that she had been struggling to organise for months.

Yet when Rice’s photograph appeared on the front page of America’s bestselling weekly newspaper last week, it had nothing to do with her peacemaking efforts. She had been dragged into a National Enquirer article headlined “Who’s Gay and Who’s Not”.

Gay rumours eclipse Condi’s glory moment
Times Online

Surely, some Democratic pundits will try to make hay with this. If that happens, they would be well-advised to remember that Bill Clinton’s sexual habits had little to do with his ability to govern. I don’t like the Bush administration any more than 70% of my countrymen, but this “scandal” should really be a non-event.

Why are we Americans so juvenile when it comes to the sex lives of our leaders and celebrities? Judge them by their records, not their bedroom escapades.

In the long, hot autumn of 2000, the world was shocked by the contempt for democracy shown by the Republican Party. They knew their man had lost the popular vote to Al Gore by half a million votes. They knew the majority of voters in Florida itself had pulled a lever for Gore. But they fought — amid the confetti of hanging chads — to stop the state’s votes being counted, and to ensure that the Supreme Court imposed George W. Bush on the nation.

Today, that contempt for democracy is on display again. In California right now, there is a naked, out-in-the-open ploy to rig the 2008 presidential election — and it may succeed.

“Republicans form a new plot to rig the 2008 election”
Seattle Post Intelligencer

Chilling stuff, particularly on the heels of the recent monkey business in Florida with the Romney campaign. Keep your eyes open.

It is a pretty well-established fact that corruption occurred in the 2000 election in Florida (and in Ohio in 2004). While I don’t agree with it, I suppose I understand the impulse to cheat the opposition. However, in the primaries for an election year when the Democrats will have the momentum because Bush is an abject failure as a president, you’d think these guys would want to get behind the one guy in their party who has very strong grassroots support. But, I guess Republicans eat their own in Florida.

I am not sure I like all of Paul’s policies, but if a Republican wins the Oval Office, I hope it is him. At least the guy is a straight-shooter and apparently decent guy. Kudos to the Paul campaign for calling out corruption in their own party. It is the only way the Republicans will ever be strong again. Democrats, listen up … don’t let this happen to you.

Thanks to Kinetic Reaction for the heads up!

My cat does this to me. But, she isn’t 700lbs!