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Hey, it looks like the 2008 Presidential election will be all about voter suppression! Apparently the Indiana voter ID law that kept Indiana nuns from voting is just the tip of a terrible, smelly iceberg. There are similar laws cooking up in Missouri and Arizona that could swing the election for both states. More details at Huffington Post.

So now we see what it's going to take to stop Obama's momentum: disenfranchisement. No wonder we want to export democracy so badly!

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Hey, let's get some Bad Music up and playing once again. Here's a classic: Elva Miller, aka Mrs. Miller, who had a big career in the 1960s by singing badly, thereby paving the way for {insert random bad contemporary pop singer name here}. Here she goes to town on "Let's Hang On", and no good note goes unpunished. Hang on!!!

More info about Mrs. Miller available at Mrs. Miller's World, and if you want some more of her song stylings, pick up the 1999 CD Wild, Cool & Swingin' available from your local Cool Records Store.

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Over at Ars Technica they've been publishing a detailed history of the Amiga line of computers. I had an Amiga 1000, and like most owners I was completely enamored of the machine. Yes, I have a touch of the disease, and now I have a series of articles to point to for evidence that we were RIGHT, dammit. (For a complete list of the 7 installments in their Amiga history, check out their listing of Amiga-related articles.)

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Hello. We spent Mother's Day in the rehabilitation facility with Mom. The outlook is not good, but we are trying to enjoy the time we have right now with her. I'll be going down again in a couple of weeks to spend time with her for a week while my sister takes a little break. So hopefully you'll get some more pictures of weird soda bottles then.

I would like to take this time to point out to you ths site Manbabies, which will strike you as either the funniest thing you've seen all month, or the most terrifying thing you've EVER seen. No middle ground exists for this site.

Also, a couple of videos we discovered over the weekend:

• Bert and Ernie go BRUTAL. Sesame Street introduces the kids to the concept of speed drumming.
• SNL airs a halfway amusing sketch. Who knew? Certainly not us. Considering our Halloween costumes last year, it appears SNL is trying to get us to watch again. Nice try, NBC.

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