Can I sign up for the middle class where I have a private plane instead of the middle class where I drive a 1987 Accord?

I'll take Godwin's Law by comment 16, Alex.

I adore my Zojirushi rice cooker, although I still cannot believe to this day that I paid $200 or so for the thing a couple years ago.

I guess I can forgive Ayn Rand for countless hours of wasted time reading her dreck for inspiring 2112, which I've wasted countless hours of wasted time enjoying.

Re: the suspension with/without pay.

It's quite common in police union contracts that an officer under investigation is suspended with pay pending the outcome.

From the Chicago Tribune story:

"I'm incredibly angry, and I feel so dumb," said Amy Carlton, 38, of Rogers Park. "And I am not a dumb person."

Carlton said all the judges at the polling place insisted that they had been trained in the use of the "magic" pens.

"I've voted before," Carlton said. "I was thinking, 'This is crazy,' but when someone in authority insists, what are you supposed to do?"

As has been said before, I heard about 'Canadians' as code word when I was tending bar at a Bennigan's in Evanston, IL, in 1989 or so. Nothing new here.

Wow, I didn't realize that youngsters nowadays still listen to Big Black. Maybe there is hope for the future.

Bah, Wax Audio's mashup of W doing Imagine can't be beat as a song.

http://www.waxaudio.com.au/downloads/mediacracy

Wow, someone still cares about Amanda Congdon? I thought her career went boom.