Marauding elephants go high-tech: Kenyan Elephants Text Rangers Before Raiding Villages

OL PEJETA, Kenya — The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.

The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers' crops during the harvest, sometimes wiping out six months of income at a time. But this time a mobile phone card inserted in his collar sent rangers a text message. Lesowapir, an armed guard and a driver arrived in a jeep bristling with spotlights to frighten Kimani back into the Ol Pejeta conservancy.

This is fuckin' weird - Florida is apparently now strongly for Obama: [link]

I read somewhere that if McCain loses Florida, he has no chance of winning. Is this correct?

if McCain loses Florida, he has no chance of winning.

He has to win either Florida or Ohio. Five Thirty Eight says that the probability of McCain winning the election without Florida and Ohio is 0.00%, and it has Florida listed as the #1 "tipping point state", but I'm not quite sure exactly what that measures.

It will be really hard for McCain to win if he loses any of Florida, Ohio, Virgina, North Carolina, or Missouri.

I am happy to report that the house in our neighborhood with the most Obama signs belongs to Walter Koenig. Go, Chekov!

it has Florida listed as the #1 "tipping point state"

It's a measure of the most likely state the election will come down to if the election comes down to a single state.

I got a "Reuben" pannino for lunch, but it has cole slaw instead of sauerkraut. NOT ON.

it has cole slaw instead of sauerkraut.

What sort of freaky alternate reality are you trapped in?

Who was the last sexy Republican president? Teddy Roosevelt?

Ike, but only in the Billy Murray bassett hound way. I mean, I suppose the argument could be made for Reagan or Ford [link] in their youth.