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The case is made for a McCain darkhorse Veep choice:

Get ready to blast off into space and explore the stars.  The brand new Sudekum Planetarium and Space Chase at Nashville's Adventure Science Center opens this week and it takes the city into the stratosphere of attractions.

A recent Associated Press survey found that thoroughbred racetracks in the U.S. reported more than three horse deaths a day last year and 5,000 since 2003, and the vast majority were put down after suffering devastating injuries on the track.

Joe Legge has a theory about why gas prices are so high that has little to do with (actual) supply and demand:

I have to say that it really seems strange to me to be agreeing with Sen. Grassley, and that he has championed the full disclosure of doctors being paid to schill for drug makers, via research, but, I have to agree with him.

Part 2 of our Conservative Agenda deals with Fundamental Tax Reform. The thing with federal taxation issues is that the vast majority of the populous knows as much about tax structure as I know about AstroPhysics; I can see the stars at night and I am bound by gravity but my understanding ends only at what I deal with on a daily basis.

Every now and then, days seem to take on certain “themes” for me. Like a song stuck in your head, sometimes these themes show up in serendipitous repetition throughout the course of the day, and sometimes they simply annoy the hell out of you until something else comes along to replace it.

Josh Ritter might have the happiest stage presence of any musician touring today.

For all the comparisons to Bob Dylan, who rarely gives an audience anything better than upbeat indifference, Ritter defies the dour, unknowable songwriter.

While navigating through heartbreak and murder ballads, he always returned to a blissful grin.