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# posted by The Comedian @ 1:38 PM 0 comments

Can you even imagine such a gracious statement being made by a blood-dancing President Clinton?

# posted by The Comedian @ 10:39 PM 0 comments

Seize!?

I cashed in last night at around Midnight EST, did I miss some late night election violence?

# posted by The Comedian @ 8:39 AM 0 comments

Democrats retained control of the 125th Assembly District seat Tuesday night, with Barbara Lifton capturing 58 percent of the vote.

# posted by The Comedian @ 7:53 AM 0 comments

I moved into a new home, in a new town, back in late September. Like a good little subject I changed my address with all the relevant state agencies, including the DMV, using its online address change page. Silly me, I thought that by properly not checking the box marked "If change of address is NOT for voter registration purposes, check here" I would be updating my voter registration.

Turns out I was half right. The DMV studiously cancelled my old voter registration, but neglected to forward the information to my new town before the deadline to vote today. I called the registrar of voters a day too late to check on the paperwork and I was told there was no way to put this right.

Sure enough, I received a cancellation in the mail from my old town, and I've been promised that my registration will be automatic in the new town, just not anytime soon.

I guess these idiots never heard of committment control. Had they held off on cancelling the old reservation until they were sure the new one was in place I would have been fine. I guess it was just my bad luck to move at the wrong time of year.

Arrrgh!

# posted by The Comedian @ 11:27 AM 0 comments

Cultural differences and more-permissive legal standards notwithstanding, the English rate of violent crime has been soaring since 1991. Over the same period, America’s has been falling dramatically. In 1999 The Boston Globe reported that the American murder rate, which had fluctuated by about 20 percent between 1974 and 1991, was "in startling free-fall." We have had nine consecutive years of sharply declining violent crime. As a result the English and American murder rates are converging. In 1981 the American rate was 8.7 times the English rate, in 1995 it was 5.7 times the English rate, and the latest study puts it at 3.5 times.

# posted by The Comedian @ 12:53 PM 0 comments

UPDATE: Anil Dash had been tracking Mr. Brody further and longer than I.

# posted by The Comedian @ 10:22 AM 0 comments

UPDATE: An alert reader notes that this firm has bragged about placing Heineken on The Sopranos, and it also reps for Philips.

# posted by The Comedian @ 10:05 PM 0 comments