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...Sometimes you find yourself liking songs you think you shouldn't. That's the case with "The Selfishness in Man," a track from one of George Jones' several tribute albums, this one a paean to Leon Payne, the blind Texas singer-songwriter best known for the Jim Reeves hit "I Love You Because...
...cover is a photo of the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville (well worth visiting if you have the opportunity). No reason I can see for the picture to be there - Leon Payne hasn't made it in yet and Jones didn't get there until 1992 (after several people I've never heard of, like Cliffie Stone, Rod Brasfield and the delightfully named Connie...
...Florida Supreme Court denied a request by Harris to transfer all lawsuits to Leon County, the county in which Tallahassee, the state capital, is located...
...accordance with Tuesday's ruling by Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, Harris set a 2 p.m. Wednesday deadline for requests by counties that wished to pursue a hand count. Broward and Palm Beach counties, which are in the process of tabulating votes, and Miami-Dade county, which decided against a hand count, filed requests for the extension of Tuesday's 5 p.m. certification deadline with Harris...
...Tallahassee, the Democrats' legal team is currently facing off against Secretary of State Katherine Harris, who has made several key decisions that Gore's supporters say have prevented votes being counted and thus may have hurt the vice president's chances of winning Florida. Thursday, in the Leon County Circuit Courthouse, Democrats are challenging Harris's decision to ignore the manual recount results achieved after the official deadline at 5 p.m. Tuesday (a separate suit from the Palm Beach County decision handed down by the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday...