Virtuoso juggling!

Just for fun and because it's impressive and delightful: check out Chris Bliss and his amazing juggling routine.

Congressional Salaries

What a great site Legistorm is! at last, information on Congressional staff salaries, which used to be accessible to the public only in D.C., is finally available on-line, for free!

Hmm, interesting -- Senator George Allen (R), whose severe case of foot-in-mouth disease may finally induce fed-up Virginians to give him the boot, paid speechwriter Todd Weiner $2000 in September...guess that's the going rate for trying to spin racist and ignorant commentary by the Senator...

My favorite was the explanation by the Senator's staff that, when Allen called a young man from the opposition campaign "Macaca" he really said "Mohawk" -- because the kid had a mohawk-style haircut.

Not because the Virginia-native college student was of Indian heritage, and "macaca" is a common Mediterranean-North African racial slur for those with brown skin, which Allen might reasonably be expected to know, as his own mother was from French Colonial Tunisia.

No, it was the haircut. And "mohawk" and "macaca" sound SO much alike!

Nice try.