Long Center for the Performing Arts grand opening on March 28th 2008 in Austin, TX

On this 100th anniversary of Mother’s Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world’s most celebrated holidays probably wouldn’t be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.

Anna Jarvis would want us to give mothers a white carnation — she felt it signified the purity of a mother’s

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Here’s a wonderful set of photos taken for a BBC special. They hid remote controlled cameras in logs and then had elephants carry and place them (the mind boggles). They ended up with some wonderful shots! While you are there, check out the video clips too!

Trash can on the top of the Capitol visitors’ parking garage

This is what it sounds like in my house while I’m playing Wii tennis…especially on long points:

<sound of music blaring with my iPod set on random>
<various hits without me making any sounds except maybe singing along with said music>
oof
oooOOf!
OOOOF!
Bah!
Bah!
BAH!
BAH!!!!!!
BAH!!!!!!
SHIT!
<sigh>

I now have greater sympathy for real tennis players who …

This post on Talking Points Memo sums up a lot of the reasons why I switched my support from Clinton to Obama. I truly feel you can tell a lot about how someone will run the White House by how they run their campaign.

If somehow against all odds she

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