Below The Beltway

The White Sox have a three game lead after the longest world series game in history.

By the time the 14th inning of Game 3 of the World Series slithered around early Wednesday morning at Minute Maid Park, all that pregame controversy — something involving a roof? — seemed like it had been eons ago, and [...]

Via CBS News:
(CBS) Most Americans do not accept the theory of evolution. Instead, 51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while humans evolved, God guided the process. Just 15 percent say humans evolved, and that God was not involved.
These views are similar to [...]

“In Louisiana, it was left for the federal government to fill the void, and you can see the consequences.” Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL)October 24, 2005
Governor Blanco, Mayor Nagin, its called leadership.
H/T: Gateway Pundit

Via CNN comes news of the latest development in the war on bad spelling:

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) — A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law that bans use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners [...]

This morning, we woke to the news that Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died at the age of 92. Parks, of course, is credited with starting the a 380 day bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that was the beginning of the modern civil rights movement. While the social forces that led to the end [...]

Jacqueline Passey, one of my fellow Life, Liberty & Property Bloggers, asks this question:
in light of an impending Bird Flu pandemic, what, if any, is the appropriate role of the state in epidemic control? Should it be involved with immunizations, be able to institute and enforce quarantines, etc.? Does personal liberty include the right to [...]

My blog is worth $51,937.68.
How much is your blog worth?

It may be $ 51,937.68 today, but you’d better buy before the price goes up.
H/T: Eric’s Grumbles Before The Grave

Being the Bobby Flay fan that she is……

Which Food Network chef are you?
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H/T: The Unrepentant Individual

Via CNN

FRESNO, California (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that proceeds from a $250,000 life insurance policy Scott Peterson took out on his wife, Laci, will go to her mother instead.
Umm, well did anyone actually think Scott was going to get the money ?

From the New York Times comes this story about those people who choose not to be a part of our interconnected world.
Despite all the talk about an increasingly connected world, the proportion of American adults who have never used the Internet and do not live in an Internet-enabled home has remained almost unchanged since 2002, [...]