Why Obama is competitive in Indiana

Wall Street Journal Opinion piece. If the polling had you puzzled, this explains a fair bit.

Studs Terkel, writer and radio personality, dies at 96

Nicely written short bio.

Edit: Link fixed. Something about "rhef" not being equivalent to "href" and my failing to double-check before posting....

Felix had Oscar.

Mary Matalin has James Carville.

But I've found an even odder couple living under the same roof.

Scott Talkov of the Inland Empire and Erick "E.D." Harris of Missouri are law school roommates and political junkies at Washington University in St. Louis. After talking to them Sunday night by phone, I don't know how they can agree on ( Read more... )

Scientists from BYU, Harvard and Stanford have identified a molecule that is key to mothers' ability to pass along immunity to intestinal infections to their babies through breastmilk.

Infant Death Prompts Recall of Convertible Cribs by Playkids USA; Crib Poses Entrapment and Suffocation HazardsWASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Playkids U.S.A. of Brooklyn, N.Y. is announcing today a voluntary recall of about 2,000 convertible cribs. The sides of the convertible crib are ( Read more... )

This is going to be an extremly motley bunch....

Ballot measure to decriminalize prostitution divides liberal San Francisco - from the LA Times, September 15 (yeah, I've been sitting on that one waaaaay too long)

"Today I Wonder How We Ever Pulled It Off" - an account of one of the participants in the protest that led to Davis v. Prince Edward ( Read more... )

Tristar Food Wholesale Co. Inc. Issues a Nationwide recall of Blue Cat Flavor Drink Because of Possible Health Risk

You might want to check to be sure before the deadline to register has passed.

Go here.

I'm registered, I double-checked. I'll be voting.

Does anyone reading this in the Austin area use gray water irrigation ( Read more... )

Mixed bag o' links today. I've been collecting interesting bits intending to share Any Minute Now. :)

"Helicopter Parents" aren't really that helpful:

Why Good Kids Are Getting Hooked On Heroin

Are Parents Killing Their Kids' Careers?

And a bit off the topic, for those of you Gen-Xers trying to figure out how the hell it happened, this ( Read more... )