Here’s a tiny CNN article I found buried in yesterday’s archives about the Coffee County Sheriff who shot himself yesterday after being indicted on drug charges.

I listened to the Cardinals-Braves baseball game off the internet while at work yesterday. Though I’m in Georgia, I grew up outside St. Louis. I’ve long loved the Cardinals, almost as much as I despised the Braves. Their collective cockiness has always made me shudder. America’s team, indeed. After a weird, wild game, the Cards wound up on top. The local Athens newspaper has a great quote: “In a remarkable example of Southern hospitality, the Braves made red the color of the day by giving away Game 1 of the best-of-five Division Series “.

The debate results are in, though they’re not surprising: Bush is a doofus and Gore’s a jerk.

The inventor of Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Specs (as well as 191 other things) was born Harold Nathan Braunhut in a New York Jewish family. At some point, he changed his name to the more German-sounding Harold von Braunhut, though his close friends knew him as Hendrik von Braun. He hung out with his friends (including the recently poor Richard Butler) posing in front of Nazi flags, lighting burning crosses, and writing newsletters that advocated a society where Blacks were forced to make leather sporting goods out of Jewish skin. Braunhut has lost several Sea Monkey distributors because of his activities, but the current distributors (who have managed to reignite sales) would rather not think about it. I learned all this via The Sea Monkeys and the White Supremacist -- a wonderful piece in this week’s LA Times magazine. The best quote from Braunhut: Sea Monkeys will remain naked until “fish wear pants”.

The drug war claimed another high profile victim today. The sheriff of Coffee County, Georgia, was indicted yesterday on charges of conspiracy to grow marijuana. Today, as federal and state agents arrived at his home to arrest him, the sheriff shot himself. This hasn’t made the news yet, so I’ll have to add a link when the wires pick this up.

Three wishes, in no particular order:

• That the refrain to the Baha Men’s smash hit single Who Let the Dogs Out (Woof Woof Woof) wasn’t so catchy.
• That the mascot for the University of Georgia wasn’t the bulldog.
• That I could reasonably expect to tune in to NPR and not have the song played at me. I realize thay consider all things, but upon further consideration, they should have left that out. I’d rather go back to The Grand Old Duke of York, thank you very much.

I saw Man or Astroman? playing at the fabulous 40 Watt Thursday night. It’s very hard to describe this band, but the local paper gave it a try.

The verdict is in, and the Virgin Connect Webplayer, received for free, wasn’t worth my time. Don’t bother with this one. The software is old (early version 4.x browser) and can’t view much beyond standard HTML files. Even txt files give an error. It would’t ever work with Blogger (though recent evidence points to a Blogger problem). I’m trying to return the player (so I’m not charged $400), but I’ve been on hold with the customer service center for over an hour. It’s a toll call. Heads will roll.

Ignore your teeth, and they’ll go away! Dental-Hygiene Tips from The Onion.

While getting to know RedCricket a little better, I found the camtoons. Very clever!