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The other big convention here in Minneapolis is the annual meeting of the International Society For The Study Of Why You Can't Fucking Sleep. (Or something.) I gotta say, some of their seminars down the hall look very interesting.

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Remember how much I detest those self check-out stations at CVS and elsewhere? Well, I ran into the same thing at a hotel for the first time this weekend in Philadelphia and I must report with chagrin that I actually liked it. No line at the unstaffed front desk, just a quick credit card swipe and the machine spat out my room key and a slip of paper with the room number on it. Like at CVS, there was a staffer floating around to deal with any problems, but there's not much to go wrong and there's no robot voice screaming at you to place your motherfucking item on the motherfucking tray.

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Looking for some bright light in today's darkness, over the last year we've all learned waaay more about how the federal government works than we probably ever got out of years of high school civics classes. I mean, come on, "cloture"?

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Several hundred of you good folks have messaged me through various ways over the last 12 hours to request we freep the Prop 8 polls underway by the Washington Post and Fox News. But what do you know? The polls don't need freeping because the good guys are way ahead on each site! That's pretty satisfying. Even if some other site has already freeped both the polls themselves, we'll take it. (And we can't freep the AFA anymore, since ALL the responses are now anti-gay, thanks to JMG readers.)

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I think my favorite moment last night came when a hot little Quebecois whispered to me in passing, "Wahhtch out fah Pahno Peet, Joe!" Cracked me up.