Page 2’s Whitney Casey tackles the oft used taunt of playground kids every where.

Today is the traditional opening of the Supreme Court’s annual term. To help celebrate this event, check out this quiz.

The Court normally returns from their summer recess on the first Monday of October. This year, however, they returned on September 8, 2003 to hear oral arguments in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission .

Here is a run down of some of the more well known cases already on the Court’s 2003-2004 docket. As of now, the docket is not complete, but this site gives a list of all cases already accepted.

This poor guy has a very long list of the things he has argued with his girlfriend on. Mil, also, has written a book based on the arguments (not actually a collection of things similar to this website, just a novel based on this life of his and Margaret’s.)

Margret thinks I’m vain because… I use a mirror when I shave. During this argument in the bathroom – our fourth most popular location for arguments, it will delight and charm you to learn – Margret proved that shaving with a mirror could only be seen as outrageous narcissism by saying, ‘None of the other men I’ve been with,’ (my, but it’s all I can do to stop myself hugging her when she begins sentences like that) ‘None of the other men I’ve been with used a mirror to shave.’
‘Ha! Difficult to check up on that, isn’t it? As all the other men you’ve been with can now only communicate by blinking their eyes!’ I said. Much later. When Margret had left the house.

Where do you think I can buy some of this, and how much do you think it costs?

To register to vote in the November Elections in Texas.

For information in your county, check here

From the NY Times Sunday article about the tiger raised in a Harlem public housing project:

As hundreds of onlookers gathered on the street, some began to wonder if this urban big cat would get along so well in the less cosmpolitan reaches of Ohio.

“My concern is that the city cat won’t make it in the country,” said Lynnette Braxton, 49. “He’s going to have no jazz, no hip-hop. He’s going to miss the Harlem Renaissance.”

From the WSJ.

… Over the years we’ve expended a great deal of ink on the idea that character matters in public life. But we have never bought the idea that moral credibility is predicated on moral perfection; if it were, even our Sunday pulpits would be thunderously silent. Character has as much to do with how we handle our failings as the failings themselves. …

So my long-suffering wife, Melissa, has been reading Love Me by everyone’s favorite radio show host (If you haven’t been, go check out a PHC show the next time it comes near you. Tons of fun.). I haven’t been able to pry it out of her fingers, but got this out of her:

‘There’s a lot of sex in the book.’
‘Oh, yeah?’ I asked.
‘Yeah, and it’s all right, except…’
‘Except what?’
She pauses. ‘Except that every time I read it, I see his face.’
“Eeeewww.” I say.

Poor Garrison.

NPR’s Morning Edition with Bob Edwards had a piece this morning on Martha Gellhorn who in her own right was an excellent war-time journalist over several wars, but is best known as the third wife of Ernest Hemingway. I haven’t read much Hemingway, much less any of his wives, but after hearing this story I had to do a bit of research to clear some of the clutter in my mind.

If you weren’t paying attention, you may have missed Fred Branfman’s opinion column on Saturday. Fred writes a disturbing satire piece pretending that Rummy resigned regarding all the lies he told. I can’t quite put my finger on why it’s disturbing other than to say it appears to come from a place of bitterness. A much better satire piece can be found in today’s Salon.com from Joyce McGreevy. She plays the White House cast as a group of girls going to a slumber party with Nancy News — and obvious parody of Nancy Drew . This one is actually funny and makes it’s point.