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* A Tea Party Republican Senator is calling for a repeal of child labour laws because he feels it should be a state's rights issue. The Republican Party: once again trying to drag us back into the 19th century.

* In case you missed it, Micheal Steele is no longer head of the Republican Party. The new Chairman is Reince Priebus. I know, i know, I'm going to be looking up the spelling over and over for months.

* Thanks to Hartwell Who, today I learned the cats to not like wolf howls on TV.

* I am rather worried about the new fish. They seem a touch lethargic. The orange guppy (in a different tank) isn't looking himself either. Gah!

* Snow Jabba: http://gothamist.com/2010/12/30/snow_wars_jabba_spotted_just_2500_m.php

* Ah, BPAL board. I am charmed by multiple Astronomers riffing on scientific conference and Astronomer culture.

* "Octopus unearths 900-year-old hidden treasure:" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-470566/Octopus-unearths-900-year-old-hidden-treasure.html

* "NASA'S Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter Into Space:" http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/jan/HQ_11-008_Fermi_Thunderstorms.html

* "NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet:" http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/jan/HQ_11-007_Kepler_Rocky_Planet.html

* I've been listening to my old Babes with Axes Live CD. "The Great Unknown" is still so beautiful that the first time I hear it after a while of not listening to it, it slices a hole in my heart in the place where home used to be.

* il_volpe found, A bit of satire, "Pat Robertson: Snow Is God's Way of Punishing Americans Planning To Drive To Do Something Gay:" http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20110101/cm_uc_crabox/op_4716464