Miscellaneous

Lance Mackey won his third consecutive Iditarod.
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New Mexico has officially banned the death penalty, thus joining 14 other states which have banned it.
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Miscellaneous.

For the second year in a row, Lance Mackey has won the Iditarod, or rather his dogs did.

A couple of dogs died during the race, which should send a message about how to treat these dogs:

Mackey lost a key lead dog early. He failed to pay careful enough attention to a crack in the foot of ole Larry, and another key lead dog ended up with an infected foot that made it difficult for him to soldier on. And from the time Mackey took the lead at Ruby on the Yukon River just past halfway almost to within sight of the finish line at Nome, he had the 16-dog freight train of four-time champ Jeff King chomping at his heels.

Mackey needs to use some sense and worry less about winning the thing.

His father won the race in a photo finish and is retired.
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An airman who died in a 1942 Sierra Nevada plane crash has been identified.
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Miscellaneous.

Perhaps the royals ought to forget about military duty for a while.

His dad is proud of him.
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Single-sex education should be thrown in the garbage can where it belongs.

Next thing you know we will be back to racially-segregated public schools.

Idiots who advocate this look at the hoity-toity elite private academies and all-women colleges, mostly for the rich, to point out their dubious claim they benefit women.

The single-sex thing has nothing to do with achievement. If you're a daughter of the filty rich or politically-connected parents, you have a BUILT IN ADVANTAGE. It has nothing to do with the "superiority" of the school but has everything to do with the connections those elite schools have.
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The Las Vegas mystery of the ricin case continues, although authorities say there is no evidence of a terrorist plot.

Given the fact this stuff is deadly, completely deadly, why would anybody have it?
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Prince Harry insists he's no hero, and he's fucking pissed off to be back in Britain, thanks to Matt Drudge outing where he was.
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The Iditarod started today.
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As the World Turns.

Ol' Pastor Ted seemed unusually obsessed with sex, but church leaders didn't pay much attention until he got caught.
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Tom DeLay blames everybody but himself for the GOP's misfortunes.
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Now that the Anna Nicole Smith case has just about run its course, at least for now, it's time for Phil Spector to have his time in the limelight.
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Ramy Brooks' career has gone to the dogs.

Asshole.

He's not the first, either:

The last time a musher was disqualified for striking a dog was in 1990 when former champion Jerry Riley from Nenana hit a dog with a steel snowhook and injured it. Riley said he was trying to break up a dog fight and accidentally hit the dog with a strong blow.

Judges, citing alleged mistreatment of dogs by Riley in the past, refused to believe him and banned him from the race for life. Ten years later, however, the ban was lifted, and in the 2001 Iditarod, Riley, by then 64 years old, finished eighth -- one of the best finishes ever by a musher over 60.

Rookie Dave Branholm was disqualified in 1993 for losing a dog between Rohn and Nikolai.

Cases of mushers being disqualifed for mistreating dogs in the Iditarod have been relatively rare. Probably the worst of them came in 1983 when Wes Atherton shot a dog. The animal had broken its leg early in the race. Atherton had loaded it in his sled and tried to take it back to the checkpoint he'd just left, but he said the dog was suffering so badly he couldn't bear to watch. So he shot it.

Atherton thought that was a humanitarian act. Other mushers were horrified. Atherton, a rookie, never attempted another Iditarod.

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More double-standard horseshit, as young boys/men are never believed to suffer negative consequences from casual sex.
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As the World Turns.

Lance Mackey's dogs won this year's Iditarod.
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The mortgage industry is taking a bad tumble, which is totally expected.
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Scandal lovers are having a field day with the latest shenanigans of our administration.
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Even the smartest of people can be goddamned stupid fools.

It ain't the first time he's been a fool (links courtesy of DU).

What is it with older guys getting it on with women far, far younger than they? Why are they so afraid of their own mortality that they take up with somebody ridiculously young?
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It's

that time of year again.