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Have you seen the season four pilot for Veronica Mars? It makes me want to cry at what could have been! The season would have picked up after her graduation from college and Quantico. It looks like it would have been a really interesting season. Drat those no-nothing TV executives! Philistines! They know nothing of good acting and a decent story line.

Thompson on the Clinton flip-flop:

"While Hillary Clinton was speaking out both sides of her mouth at last night's debate over the issue of drivers licenses for illegal aliens, what went unsaid is that this is a recipe for increased voter fraud. Under the federal "Motor Voter" law (the National Voter Registration Act of 1993), states must provide applicants for drivers licenses with the opportunity to register to vote. "Giving legal drivers licenses to illegal immigrants is wrong and would provide them the opportunity to register to vote in our country. People who are not citizens of the United States should not be encouraged by pandering politicians to further break our laws and risk the health of our political system."

Yeah, I agree :-)

"Forget 'liberal': Given a few more weeks like the ones congressional Democrats just endured, and the dreaded L-word they'll be struggling to shake is 'losers.' Children's health care, government spying, the atrocities of the Ottoman Empire, the toxic ramblings of Representative Pete Stark -- you name the issue, Dems managed to get their clocks cleaned in the p.r. battle with a fractured Republican minority led by a lame-duck president only marginally more popular with the American public than Chinese toy manufacturers.... [W]hat in God's name is wrong with congressional Dems? It's one thing to lose all your battles when you're the beleaguered minority crushed beneath the boot heel of a well-liked commander-in-chief and a power-mad congressional majority. But, when you can't manage to win even one lousy spin cycle under the current politically felicitous circumstances, voters are going to start wondering if you simply don't have what it takes to govern -- if perhaps you really do deserve that 25 percent approval rating" -- from an editorial in the latest New Republic magazine.

You buy them paper. date books, assignment books, postit notes and they still use their arm to write down the name of a song they want to look up.

There was some question over the legality of Apple refusing to accept cash for their iPhones but apparently they are able to refuse cash:

It turns out that the U.S. Treasury takes an extremely literal view of the language on every Federal Reserve Note saying it is "legal tender for all debts, public and private." If you owe someone money, the law says they must accept greenbacks in payment. But, says the Treasury Web site: "There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services."

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