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• The secondary ticket market just heated up. TicketsNow has announced a new serviced, Sell Your Tickets on TicketsNow, that allows people to sell their tickets through the TicketsNow site. TicketsNow is owned by Ticketmaster.

When unexpected good things happen, we call it Serendipity. Not so with unexpected bad things. The Law of Unintended Consequences, abbreviated LUC and pronounced “luck” as in “If it weren’t for bad LUCk I’d have no LUCk at all!”, is perhaps the most famous non-scientific Law.

Is it really wise to take this guy’s playground?

Spiegel Online has a fascinating post of the emails it has received from Germans living in America. Example,

There is nothing really that the European Union has left to debate regarding the Georgian misadventure.

Last night in his defense of the English Only ballot initiative, CM Eric Crafton pointed to the irony of the fact that English is required language in many foreign countries and across international bodies, but it is not a requirement in America.

Some of you probably are familiar with this; I just came across it. Randy Newman’s reply “to [the] scorn” of Europeans and the rest of the world.

Some random observations after five days in Orlando:

FoxNews.com reports that "The significant news coverage Barack Obama is receiving on his foreign trip has not translated into a bounce in his [poll] numbers."

Marc Ambinder just had a brainstorm for a GOP political ad:

“America, this is our moment. This is our time” – Obama, speaking in MN the night he officially won the Dem nomination (6/3).