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eHarmony.com offers a free Personality Profile. It turns out I don't have one.

Perhaps the most inconsequential information ever, perhaps

This site calculates how old you would be on Mercury, Vensus, Mars, well, you get the idea.

It also tells you things like when you'll be 300,000,000 seconds old.

You also find out how many times you have blinked, how far light has traveled, how many people have been born, how long your uncut fingernails would be, and how far a human sperm could have swam since you were born!

Well, this is just fun...

Billionaire businessman Eli Broad and two other really rich guys have teamed up to submit a bid for the Chicago's Tribune Co., which owns 11 daily newspapers, 25 TV stations, and the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Its newspapers include the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune, Newsday in New York, The Baltimore Sun, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel and The Hartford Courant.

Broad has an estimated net worth of around $5.8 billion and is ranked by Forbes as the 42-richest person in America.

And now for the fun part: In 1994, Broad purchased Roy Lichtenstein's painting I...I'm Sorry (above) for $2.5 million at a Sotheby's auction -- he used his American Express Card to pay for the painting (true), and earned 2.5 million frequent-flyer miles (also true)!

I voted early, I voted often, I fell good about myself.

My favorite thing about voting has always been seeing the Migratory Election-Day Ladies. Like their migratory farm-worker counterparts, the Migratory Election-Day Ladies move from city to city, state to state, wherever there are registration rolls to be checked and ballots to be handed out, and then they disappear into some distant horizon only to reemerge again whenever the next election day rolls around.

Perhaps there is a Migratory Election-Day Ladies winter circuit that parallels baseball's winter leagues. The Migratory Election-Day Ladies could work the polls in sunny places and still have time to let their arthritic limbs soak up the Caribbean sun.

Take care of yourselves Migratory Election-Day Ladies until the next school-bond special election, or the next recall drive, or the next high-school prom king vote. We'll keep the folding chairs ready for your safe return.

Best Headline of the Day

Poll Worker Allegedly Chokes Voter

and threw him out the door, twice!

If you see this man, don't call Fox

Vanished is a TV show that was on Fox following Prison Break. The show is a drama about the search for the wife of U.S. Senator who vanishes. Following the popular Prison Break, the show was doing quite well in its first season until, well, the star, sort of, and this is where it gets tricky, he seems to have vanished! What's left of the cast is above.

In one of the strangest moves in TV history, the show killed off its lead character played by actor Gale Harold after only five episodes. That's right, they snuffed the star of the show in a hail of bullets just before the World Series break. He's toast. He's history. He's supposedly a prima donna that no one could stand. So they got a new star, the writers were told to wrap up the central story line pronto, and Fox moved the show to a really bad time slot and cut the total number of new episodes ordered for this season from 22 to 13. This might be the ultimate in being unpopular with your co-workers!

[Before he vanished from Vanished, Gale Harold's only other starring role in a TV series was in Showtime's Queer as Folk. He is shown below with QAF co-star Randy Harrison (left).]

It must be nice to have actual talent

The drawings in the photo above, and those below, are sidewalk art by Julian Beever. While they look 3-D, they are "anamorphic illusions drawn in a special distortion in order to create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular viewpoint." There are more examples on his website.

At least now we know why Vinnie was always climbing through the window...

Doogie Howser is gay!

The day after the publicist for Neil Patrick Harris issued a statement saying the actor was not gay, Harris told People Magazine that he is gay and proud of it and in love with fellow actor David Burtka (on left in photo above).

This tops that!

Police in El Cerritoa CA arrested 33-year-old John Sheehan near the BART mass transit station after passerbys complained that Sheehan was naked, exposing himself, and, well, dating himself. He was also charged with one felony count of possessing a concealed weapon after he told police he has a screwdriver up his, well, anal cavity. "Unsure about what to do, police called for a fire engine. Firefighters quickly decided that an emergency room would be better equipped to deal with the situation." [Contra Costa Times]

A mixed-metaphor perhaps?

Bumper sticker that I saw today:
Our Lady of Lourdes Warriors

First you wound them, then you heal them?
(See Lourdes, click Miracles)

My guess is that it's a grade-school basketball team,
but it didn't really say.

Call Nielsen, Tell Him I Don't Give A Damn

Tonight begins the Novemnber sweep weeks -- a TV ratings periods that determine how much local TV stations get for their ad time. That's why your local stations are probably running controversial or titillating investigative reports during their evening newscasts.

The award for the most blatant attempt to attract a larger audience during sweeps goes to the old Sally Jessy Raphael talk show when it originated in St. Louis. The St. Louis is usually considered to be the most Catholic city in the country -- it used to be called the "Rome of the West." Microfilms of the documents in the Vatican Library were buried on the campus of St. Louis University, just in case Italy went communist after WWII.

In such a city, Sally Jessy hosted an episode entitled: "Lesbian Nuns in Love." And, no, I didn't make that up!

Enjoy sweeps, expect nudity.