FriendFeed: RT @marcambinder: Dem state chair Nick Casey seen as Byrd’s likely replacement. Gov. Joe Manchin will declare a “vacancy” and then appt. placeholder. … BUT if vacancy is declared after July 3, successor serves through 2012. If not, GOP has another seat in 2010 to contest.
FriendFeed: Chris Stewart, fourth-year starting guard on Notre Dame football team, to be a 1L at NDLS in the fall
FriendFeed: During the final minutes of #USA-#GHA, Loyette started kicking a ball around the living room “like the teachers on TV.” (Having taken a toddler soccer “class” a few months ago, she apparently thinks all adult soccer players are “teachers.”)
FriendFeed: Tropical Depression 1 forms; likely to become T.S. Alex
FriendFeed: Go TCU, Beat the Bruins!
FriendFeed: No one to test FaceTime with? Call Apple.
FriendFeed: Likeliest explanation for “crazed sex poodle” story: Al Gore and Bill Clinton have switched bodies, Freaky Friday-style. Has anyone observed Bubba ranting about global warming, lockboxes, or ManBearPig lately?
FriendFeed: Alan Sullivan: “Medical news is grim. … This is not fixable. I will be going home to hospice.”
FriendFeed: Canadian earthquake downgraded from 5.5 to 5.0; no injuries or damage reported
FriendFeed: President Obama on Afghanistan, General McChrystal & General Petraeus