interesting stuff

Interesting stuff watching the Hillary supporters parse yesterday's primary results. Some of it is factual, some of it is stretching the truth and some of it is just plain not true.

Clinton overwhelmingly won Kentucky, but the Kentucky pledged delegate count for Obama gave him the majority. In plain speak, Kentucky won it for Obama.

Obama won Oregon, an overwhelmingly white working class state

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Via knoxnews.com | No Silence Here, reports of some nuns making a point (or attempting to) in Indiana:

About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.

I was flipping through the channels last night, and ran across a program from the 1980s on channel 10 (Annenberg Media). Its a 13 part series on the Constitution which brings together legislators, judges, journalists, and lawyers together to discuss. Very interesting stuff, especially watching a young Orin Hatch and Charlie Rangel debate gun control.

I dig George Romero. Of course he gave us our first zombies that were political/scary.

On his new movie Diary of the Dead which is shot much like Blair Witch and Cloverfield, he says some interesting stuff that I think has merit:

One drawback in believing in the power of direct communication with the Universe and all the interesting stuff in it is that, in times like this, I find it hard to pray.

First, it’s hard for me to articulate what I want.  Somehow saying it out loud means admitting I don’t think it’s inevitable.  That I have to want it means I’m not sure that it will come to pass.  And I don’t want to admit uncertainty.

Just a quick stroll through some of the interesting stuff I’ve run across on the ‘Net.

One of my favorite Tennessee bloggers, Glen Dean, has started a new blog: Tennessee Free. Lots of interesting stuff there; head on over and take a look.

Citizen Netmom found some interesting stuff in a state audit of her county: