SNIPPETS

OCTOBER 27,   2009

This beats anything Lincoln said, hands down:  MIAMI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama had a message for his political friends and foes on Monday -- "just because I'm skinny doesn't mean I'm not tough."

Please imagine that chiseled in stone on the future Barack Obama Memorial.  Imagine it being set to music.  And, of course, imagine it memorized, along with the Gettysburg Address, by eager school children who'll want to know, "What was he really like?"

OCTOBER 26,  2009

From London's Telegraph:  Halloween has been 'cancelled' in Britain's most haunted village.   Pluckley residents are fed up of being invaded by hundreds of ghost-hunting revellers, causing vandalism and traffic chaos.  The village is said to have at least 12 spectres, including a highwayman, a phantom monk, the hanging body of a schoolmaster and a poltergeist in the local pub.

If this were Chicago, they'd all be eligible to vote.  Twice.