Lilac Chaser optical illusion.

Holy crap, that was weird.

So anyway, school's over. I have to go in today to finish cleaning out my room and turn in my keys (donwanna!) and then... I'm done with that school. Freaky.

It's not really that close. It's an initialism. Which leaves one with little or no style guidelines--initials are the case of the original words, except when they're not.

har. I only meant it in the sense that everyone calls those sorts of things acronyms, but they're not, and I couldn't remember initialism.

Why does anyone trust the Girls Gone Wild guy anymore?

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Two Florida women have sued "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis and his film company, alleging a sexually explicit video was released without their consent.

In the federal lawsuit filed Monday in Panama City, Brooke Pastolic and Christina Brose said they were enticed to board a "Girls Gone Wild" tour bus with the promise of free clothing. Once onboard, they allegedly were given alcoholic drinks even though both were younger than 21.

According to the lawsuit, the cameramen then coerced the women into exposing themselves and engaging in sexual activities, but repeatedly stated they would not use footage in a video. However, the footage appeared on two separate "Girls Gone Wild" DVDs.

The women claim the footage was used without their consent, and if they did give consent, it was obtained illegally by "Girls Gone Wild" representatives giving them alcohol.

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"Girls Gone Wild" crews don't serve alcohol on their tour buses and ask women for identification to verify their age, Michael Burke, attorney for Francis' Mantra Films Inc., told The News Herald.

Francis, 34, remains in a Nevada jail on federal tax evasion charges. He was granted bail after pleading not guilty in that case, but stayed in jail to avoid the possibility of being sent to Florida to be arrested on charges of possessing contraband and drugs while in the Bay County Jail in May.

He is also charged in Florida with using minors in sexual performances, conspiring to use minors in sexual performances and prostitution.

Dude might be spending a fair amount of time in jail....

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Whoa, that optical illusion is weird. Things not there appearing I can understand, but things that are there disappearing is wild.

I've seen both MPG and mpg, I am no help.

I think the inicidents that the women are suing over happened before most of Joe Francis's legal troubles. I'm amused that he's in jail when he could be out on bail. But that won't keep him from being charged in Florida right? They can still charge him and work out extradition or something?

Scooter will not be allowed to remain free until his appeal; he must go to jail now.

So,

At the White House Wednesday, Tony Snow said he wouldn't "speculate" as to whether a decision denying Libby's request to remain free pending appeal would affect the timing of any pardon decision. But there's a difference between a man facing a prison sentence and a man actually serving one, and that difference will increase the pressure the president faces -- from the base he's losing quickly -- to absolve Libby of his sins.

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Ahhh, good to see guys in jail who should be in jail. Warms the cockles of my heart.

Warms the cockles of my heart.

I read that as "Warms the cookies of my heart."

Mmm... warm cookies....

If my heart had cookies, they would be warm.

The Democrats and Republicans are having a grammar kerfuffle:

[GSA head Lurita Doan] claims she sometimes has "problems with tense", and in fact had meant to use the "hortatory subjunctive".

But then comes John Sarbanes, showing off. His mother is a Latin teacher, he tells us, and so he knows that Ms Doan's statement is not the hortatory subjunctive.