Massachuesetts' Court At It Again

In September, they want to start hearing arguments for the repeal of the 1913 law that prohibits non-residents from getting married. This would be a back door way to get gay marriage recognized in all 50 states.

Homecoming

Looks like Steve will be back in San Diego Mar. 1.
BTW--He got to give author Robert Kaplan a tour of the topside of the ship, and was interviewed by him! Unfortunately Steve is not mentioned in the newsletter
There is already a book about the Benfold- Go here for a little history or maybe you would like to read Chapter 1

The Star Wars Kid

Before Gary, Vince and Todd, there was The Star Wars Kid. This site tells the story:

"The Star Wars Kid was just goofing off at school. Now he finds his private performance downloaded by over 15 million Internet users across the world.

"The Star Wars Kid is a 15-year-old from Quebec known only as Ghyslain -- his parents are keeping his last name secret to protect his identity. Back in November 2002, Ghyslain was goofing off at a school video studio and recorded himself fighting a mock battle with a golf ball retriever lightsaber. Over two minutes, the video shows the lone, overweight teenager twirling his mock lightsaber ever faster while making his own accompanying sound effects."

The site has 106 remixed versions of the video.

Props to Mae for the tip.

Update: the links to most (if not all) the videos are down. :-(

Update: this site hosts a bunch of them.

Open directory of Iraq pics

I found a huge trove of pics from Iraq on a backend entrance to ohio.com. Apparently they host the pics here to use for stories. Most of them are dated from 2004. They are high quality pics too -- most of them over a meg each.