11/04: Morning Communique

THESE DAYS

Rep. Tom DeLay's staff tried to help lobbyist Jack Abramoff win access to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, an effort that succeeded after Abramoff's Indian tribe clients began funneling a quarter-million dollars to an environmental group founded by Norton.

A disabled German man had his electric wheelchair confiscated after being caught more than four times over the drunk driving limit.

An online search engine called Guba is set to offer vast amounts of pornography and other video files, specifically tailored for Apple's new iPods.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

If you prefer your claymation movie reviews suffused with culinary metaphors, then Excitable Media is your, um, cup of tea.

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TIME WASTERS

Newish episode of Cedric & Gerard

Just in time for Christmas: Owl Puke

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"If you'll look at my lovely FEMA attire you'll really vomit. I am a fashion god."

-- An e-mail from then-FEMA Director Michael Brown, on the morning of August 29, 2005