Also, outgrowing women and living in a men-only world? Sounds kinda gay to me...

And when did my hairdresser become so popular?? I just called to make an after-work appointment, and the next one was October 13! Bananas!!

ION, go Boris!

Secret Service picked up drunken Yeltsin during Washington visit

Boris Yeltsin got so drunk during a 1995 visit to Washington that Secret Service agents found him a few hundred feet from the White House clad only in his underwear and trying to hail a cab — because, he explained, he wanted a pizza.

The encounter and near international incident involving the former Russian President was revealed yesterday in a new oral history of Bill Clinton’s presidency, based on 79 taped interviews between Mr Clinton and the historian Taylor Branch during late-night visits to the White House.

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The Yeltsin incident came after one of the former Russian President’s late-night drinking sessions. On the night in question, he was staying at Blair House, the guest quarters for foreign leaders visiting Washington, which sits directly across from the White House in Pennsylvania Avenue.

He managed to give his Secret Service detail the slip. Frantically looking for him, they found him in his underwear on Pennsylvania Avenue trying to get a taxi. He explained in slurred words that he wanted a pizza.

eta: Now I wanna know if he ever got his pizza....

Also, outgrowing women and living in a men-only world? Sounds kinda gay to me...

Sounds like Sparta. What could possibly be gay about Sparta?

Wow.

Postal Worker Stole 30,000 Netflix DVDs

(SPRINGFIELD, Mass.) — A former postal service employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 30,000 DVDs that moved through a western Massachusetts post office.

Myles Weathers, formerly of Springfield, took DVDs that were mailed by Netflix to customers for a year beginning in January 2007.

Federal prosecutors say the movie rental company alerted Springfield post office officials that a suspiciously high number of DVDs were disappearing. As many as 100 movies a week were disappearing.

Weathers was arrested in February 2008 after investigators filmed him taking DVDs from packages and slipping them into his backpack.

He faces 10 months to 16 months in prison and restitution costs of about $38,000 at his Dec. 23 sentencing.

He faces 10 months to 16 months in prison and restitution costs of about $38,000 at his Dec. 23 sentencing.

That guy is going to be pissed when he finds out about bittorrent.

I shouldn't be so amused - darkly amused - that Dr. Gupta got H1N1 while reporting from Afghanistan, right?

It's an absolutely brilliant, spot-on deconstruction of the theology/soteriology, as well as lambasting the execrable writing.

Lambasting the writing seems almost unfair, it's it really all about the theology with the plot, characters, and dialogue as sort of afterthoughts.

More amazing bat photos, via PZ.

And here are some incredibly beautiful pictures of beautiful people: [link]