Dear Elliott: When announcing a no-laughing-matter important audit about the Health Department, it might be prudent to not smile when announcing the report.

Also, your photo was shrunk, and you're missing an apostrophe in your (yet-to-be-updated) blog.

UPDATE: The blog was updated. "Peoples" still needs an apostrophe.
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Damming report follows.

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A Marist poll of New York City residents released today reveals that 45 percent of of residents think it’s a good idea to have the trial of five alleged terrorists in New York City while 41 percent believe it’s a bad one. 14 percent aren’t sure.

Also divided is former city Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was in favor of such trials in 2006 but now is against it.

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" has him debating his past self (skip to minute 3). Viewing is hilarious and mandatory.

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To the almost 3 million people who are following President Barack Obama on Twitter, here's a quote from Obama today:

“Well, first of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter.”

Also, he's not "following" you, either.

From the Hudson Valley Film Commission:

If you were driving up Route 28 through Andes on Friday and feared that vampires and armed marauders had taken over – FEAR NOT. Shotgun carrying vigilantes were simply battling two vampires on the set of STAKE LAND, a Glass Eye Pix feature
film production directed by Andes resident, Jim Mickle.

"Stake Land" Special Effect guru Brian Spears with corpses (Hudson Valley Film Commission photo)



Here's the teaser trailer:

Gigantic knife-wielding Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill today in the highly offensive letter above.

Why so offensive? Read it vertically.

Read the whole San Francisco Chronicle account.

Mother's Milk, a stout made by Keegan Ales in Kingston, was picked today as the 10th best North American Stouts by The New York Times.

Here's the rundown.

Full disclosure: I'm a big fan of Mother's Milk. And Joe Mama's (it's a stout with coffee, so spare me the snark).

It's true!* You can thanks the Model X7 SurvivaBall, Unit Z5-11, Version 11.7, brought to you by The Yes Men. The Freeman spoke with them about their efforts.

Here's guide to the basic functions and properties of the Halliburton Model X7 SurvivaBall for use in catastrophic or potentially catastrophic conditions.

And check out some informational videos:









* It's not.

From the study's conclusion:

Confirming our first hypothesis, we found that men who voted for Barack Obama (winner) had stable post-outcome levels of testosterone, and men who voted for John McCain or Bob Barr (losers) had decrements in their testosterone levels.

Testosterone and the Election

... here are the links of the studies mentioned in "Web searches may aid brain (waste away)."

* UCLA study finds that searching the Internet increases brain function.

* First-time Internet users find boost in brain function after just one week.

* The Internet as a Diversion.

The full survey is below.

PIP the Internet as a Diversion

In my perennial quest for irrelevancy, I managed to include a reference to this video in "Web searches may aid brain (waste away)":



As you can see, it was totally worth it.