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You, of course, will have to decide for yourself how to react to this news tidbit, but I know my reaction.

Clusty is a good search engine. I already use their quite advanced right-click menu for Firefox, which includes a context-sensitive, pop-up dictionary and encyclopedia.

Too bad; GoogleMaps showed real promise. But I refuse to give my traffic to any group of people who are that willfully ignorant and blind to the real world. As my father told his neighbor when asked if he had ever voted Democrat, "sure, but they haven't run anybody worth voting for in the last three decades."

By appointing Screamin' Dean to the party Chair, the DNC seems to be sending a clear signal that they intend to remain the way they are, or even go further away from the American mainstream, (if that's even possible). I had hoped the wildly lopsided popular vote, as well as the equally tilted Congressional elections, would bring the DNC to its collective senses, and move them back toward the center. Obviously I over-estimated them.

That is unfortunate, because I really don't want any one party in total control of Washington for very long. That's a bad way to run a representative republic, and will eventually lead to Very Bad Things. The Dem's, however, haven't shown the slightest inkling of a desire to remain relevant. Perhaps it's time for a new party to rise up, but I can't for the life of me imagine who it would be at this point. Certainly not the Libs; they're a loose association of nutballs if ever I've seen one. They're the political equivalent of a Mensa meeting: lots of brains, lots of arrogance, zero direction or leadership.