Daughter of Slave votes for Obama

Worth sharing:

Amanda Jones, age 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries... She is too weak to go the polls, so two of her 10 children — Eloise Baker, 75, and Joyce Jones — helped her fill out a mail-in ballot for Barack Obama, Baker said. "I feel good about voting for him," Amanda Jones said.

Jones' father herded sheep as a slave until he was 12, according to the family, and once he was freed, he was a farmer who raised cows, hogs and turkeys on land he owned. Her mother was born right after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Joyce Jones said. The family owned more than 100 acres of land in Cedar Creek at one point, she said.

Please vote early

Just a reminder to vote early if you can. It's easy, and you may shorten the election day line for some poor schmuck who has trouble getting time off to vote.

Also, if you know ANY California residents, now is the time to call & ask them to vote NO on Prop 8. It's too close to call, and we need every vote for equality we can get.

And, because it's hilarious, here for your procrastination pleasure is an obama-lantern.

McCain sneers at women's health

McCain's sneering finger quotes about the "health of the mother" sure scared the willies out of me.

For your slacking pleasure

Pay a friendly visit to President Palin's office.

AstroJobs 2009

Anyone else dismayed by the small # of astro faculty jobs on the register so far this fall? Or is it too early?

The rule of thumb for corporate health care:

"There is no medical procedure so uncomfortable or humiliating that it cannot be made worse by spending three hours on hold with the insurance company."