They all start out cute

Yet another Star Trek auction is underway, selling for the umpteenth time some of the stuff from the series. It's money on a loop.

Best snippet from today’s Onion, in the infographic on Jayson Blair’s falsified journalism:
Wrote fabricated story about Iraq possessing massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction

Since I lived in the DC area all my life, I became innured to the occassional encounter with the rich and famous — at least, politically speaking. Among the many brushes with fame during the years were Jimmy  [more...]