11/21 Morning Communiqué

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

Wookiefoot offshoot Mad Love is at the Fine Line tonight. Get the whole scoop in Chuck Terhark's City Planner at Culture To Go.

THESE DAYS

About 1 percent of Web sites indexed by Google and Microsoft are sexually explicit, according to a U.S. government-commissioned study.

A botched kidnapping in Wichita ended with one of the assailants shooting himself in the left testicle.

President Richard M. Nixon is slated to appear on a $1 U.S. coin in the year 2016, 20 years before an asteroid destroys us all. Coincidence?

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

St. Paul resident Ethel blogs on vomiting dogs, gay rights, and roller derby at Chicken Lady Loves Life.

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TIME WASTERS

Comedian David Cross covers Ethan Chandler's reimagining of "One" for Bank of America

Time magazine publishes 5 Myths About the Midterm Elections

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"I figure if this was truly a dance competition they would have voted for the better dancer. I would like to think the criteria was based solely on being the best dancer, and I thought we did enough to accomplish that. I'm not crying over spilled milk. If I was going to lose to someone, it couldn't have been to a better guy than Emmitt Smith."

— Television footnote Mario Lopez, not at all bitter about losing to a Hall of Fame running back on Dancing with the Stars