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What, you ask, is on the worlds mind today?

Well, there may be some anxiety in some parts of the world over the makeup of the new Congress. Apparently, a Democrat Senator was taken ill yesterday and his prognosis has not been disclosed. He is from a state that is governed by a Republican, and it is they who will pick who fills the seat in the event that the Senator is unable to go on.

In the overall scheme of things, will it matter? If the GOP takes back the Senate, (in a literal and figurative sense), it may be the best thing that happened to the Dem's since asparin the day after the election. The GOP will then be robbed of the catbird seat, being able to sit back and watch the other team not score. If they have the Senate, they will have some responsibility and will have to do something, lest they be in the 'obstructionist' spotlight each and every day.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian will apparently be released from prison in Michigan next June.

I hope my HMO doesn't add him to the 'Preferred Providers' list....

Sales on the popular iTunes site are down, or maybe not, or the business is collapsing, or doing rather well, depending on who you ask.

I think it means that Apple might only be raking money in with one fist. And what does it matter anyway? Has iTunes and the iPod replaced agriculture and steel futures as an economic bellwether?

Yoko Ono was alledgedly threatened and was being blackmailed.

My, my, somebody else doesn't like the remix of the White Album....


That's all I know right now. More as I hallucinate .....