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That lump on the back of Bush's suit in the debate? It's also been seen in pictures of him in a t-shirt driving a truck. Follow the link for a larger version of the picture.

Insurance underwriting on reality TV shows: "Paulsen doesn't approve every script. The company recently declined to insure a complicated hidden camera stunt that called for people to jump out of a plane with parachutes after the pilots pretended the engine was failing."

The Dr. Strangelove character was based on Herman Kahn, a RAND nuclear strategist who wrote a 1960 book, On Thermonuclear War, which filmmaker Stanley Kubrick read several times while researching the movie.

The new Honda Accord Hybrid scheduled for December release gets better gas mileage than the regular Accord while shaving half a second off its 0-60 time.

Zogby, Harris, Gallup most accurate on 2000 presidential race, but Zogby called 29% of Senate and gubanatorial races wrong in 2002, compared to an average of 13% for other pollsters.

While poverty among blacks and non-Hispanic whites has decreased since 1990, the rise in the Hispanic poverty rate was enough to drive up the overall poverty rate. Robert Samuelson says that measurements of poverty are somewhat inflated because they included illegal immigrants who are starting at zero and often have no job skills.

I'm for more stem cell research, but Edwards recent Oral Roberts act is just sleazy. He's promising that "people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." More likely this election: dead people will get up out of their graves and vote again. Jim Miller has a good rundown of stem cell research, and makes the fair point that there is more stem cell research under Bush than under Clinton, a point that Democrats usually ignore in their efforts to villify Bush.