Yikes. Super, super weird.

To paraphrase and steal from Legally Blonde, did this guy just wake up one morning and decide to run for Senator? Craziness.

Politics - the longest-running unscripted (more or less) show in existence.

Indeed.

And with that, I'm going to go watch last night's So You Think You Can Dance and then go to bed. Have a lovely rest of your day, everyone!

Ironically, for someone who does what I do for a living, I figure if everybody liked me, I'd be doing something wrong.

I despised the song everyone knows that features my name, but I've come to peace with it in my dotage.

Lasagne! I haven't made it in ages and ages. It brought all the kids to my yard when I was at university...I should make a variation with my gluten-free pasta. Hmmm.

And he claims he used his own money to file, but is being represented by a public defender which requires proving indigency (is that a word?). [link] Maybe it's because bad guys in media are frequently named Victor (as KBD used to bitterly point out) so people had negative associations with the opponent's name. But seriously, something is really, really weird about that whole thing.

On NPR this morning, they said that his foreign policy statements so far consist of the desire for a unified democratic Korea.

Skipping in order to post that, according to the Buffista Calendar, today is Cass' birthday.

Happy birthday, Cass! With lots of wishes for a great day and a wonderful year!

Happy Birthday Cass!

The man obviously is having problems with the lag time between the question and when he hears it over his earpiece, which is common to newbies on his show, but his delays are longer than usual, and his responses are nearly catatonic in their brevity and lack of emotion.

I saw the same thing in his interview with Shep Smith that seemed to be a phone interview. I thought that the pauses were people telling him what to say.

Scientists: 'Monkeys like TV'

Scientists in Japan have published a new study which they say proves that monkeys like watching television.

A three-year-old male rhesus macaque enjoyed a video of a circus elephant, giraffe and tiger performing, according to scientists from 1 University's Primate Research Institute.

Scientists used a technique called near-infrared spectroscopy to examine various aspects of the blood flow to the brain of the monkey while it was watching the television images.

The study found that when the monkey was witnessing the acrobatic performances of circus animals on a television screen, the frontal lobe area of its brain became vigorously active.

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Another recent study conducted by scientists at the same Kyoto University institute showed how mother monkeys teaching their young how to floss their teeth in a similar way to humans.