Late NH Polls Missed Clinton Upswing

Was it an eleventh-hour tide of sympathetic women, people reluctant to say they weren't backing a black candidate or problems with the polls themselves? For whatever reason, late public opinion surveys showed Barack Obama cruising to a triumph in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

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Candidates Develop Foot-In-Mouth Disease

Say what? The 2008 presidential campaign theme could be "Oops! What I meant was ..."

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Apocalyptic predictions, such as those warning of global destruction in 2012, are nothing new – they have been around for millennia By Mark Strauss Smithsonian.com, November 12, 2009

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California tax officials say an interior designer's false disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home improvement television show.

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The UK has apologised to Spain after the Royal Navy used a buoy with the Spanish colours for target practice. The exercise took place off the coast of Gibraltar earlier this week. The UK ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry in Madrid to explain.

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A group of elite SAS-style commandos has apologised after blowing up the wrong house in a training exercise. The squad - from Sweden's K3 cavalry division - were supposed to attack an unoccupied home bought by the military for attack drills.

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excerpt: "" It's bad enough that CNN collectively smeared egg all over its face yesterday by mistakenly posting as breaking news that the Coast Guard, on the anniversary of 9/11, had opened fire on a vessel along the Potomac River in the nation's capitol.

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A Pennsylvania history buff who recreates firearms from old wars accidentally fired a 2-pound cannonball through the wall of his neighbor's home.

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A woman has apparently been fired after abusing her boss on Facebook - and forgetting she was friends with him on the social networking site.

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When Joannes Rutten stepped off a plane with his grandson at Sydney airport after a long flight from Amsterdam, he thought they were in for the Australian holiday of a lifetime.

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A 34-YEAR-OLD woman, the mother of a 12-year-old girl, has been locked up in a Virginia jail for three weeks and could remain there for at least another month. Her crime? Blogging about the police.

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A doctor is suing a 78-year-old spiritual guru and her 'healing centre' charity after he was allegedly brainwashed into handing her £750,000 [$1,225,000].

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as it turns out, volcano monitoring wasn't the only worthwhile public safety program that was deemed extravagant in the stimulus package, funding for pandemic preparation was axed as well.

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Actor Bill Murray hooked a tee shot so badly during a Pro-Am event on Friday that the ball sailed across a street next to the hole and hit a woman in her front yard. She was knocked to the ground and had to go to the hospital.

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Apparently Google's drivers sometimes forget they're driving around with pole-mounted cameras on their car roofs.

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Okay, so this was pretty funny in a sad way. Another misstep for Hill.

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Hard work and dedication have their time and place, but the values of failure and ineptitude have gone unappreciated for far too long.

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excerpt:"An impulsive and rude gesture to a state trooper turned out to be an expensive nonverbal outburst for a Somers motorist.

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California Liquid Fertilizer has been spiking its fertilizer with ammonium sulfate for the last several years, affecting the organic status of many farms, including organic behemoth Earthbound Farms.

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Is it Chicken or Pork?

I planned on cooking some chicken soup so yesterday I pulled the frozen chicken out of the freezer and set in the refrigerator to thaw. Not looking at it much I also prepped some celery and onions to add. Well the jokes on me! I actually thawed out some Stew Pork.

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Colorado or Ohio?

During the weekend preceding the actual election, a newscast from MSNBC mislabeled one of the states on their huge map. Repeatedly, they addressed Obama's plan to travel to three key Western states—which included Nevada, Colorado, & New Mexico.

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John McCain's last best hope... ...is to join the Democratic Party, and Faux News is more than willing to help him out!

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My Embarrassing Bookshelf

One of the hazards of being a very eclectic reader is the detritus you leave behind. Personally, I'm so compulsive that if I'm sitting at the breakfast table and I don't have a book close at hand, I'll start reading the cereal box just to be able to read something.

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Losing your way in New York City is no fun, especially when you get so confused that you crash into the one place that can help you - a map store.

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You know the old cliche, a picture is worth a thousand words? Turns out that pictures have been deeply undervalued: A single photo can cost you your reputation, your job, even your freedom -- if you post it online.

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This video from a Palin event today, catches the vice presidential candidate putting herself before John McCain on the ticket.

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Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend.

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