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...Georgia, it's almost as if the election hasn't ended. National political heavyweights like Bill Clinton, John McCain, Sarah Palin and Al Gore have stormed through the state to remind its citizens that history is still at stake. On Tuesday, Georgia goes to the polls to decide a seat that could inch Democrats closer to a 60-seat, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. The prospect of such a legislative advantage has the Republican incumbent in this red-leaning state billing himself as as the final "firewall" against the agenda of Barack Obama...
...polls one last time. The Chambliss line about being the firewall against an Obama agenda is resonating with voters. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 52% of Georgia voters say they would be less likely to vote for Martin if it meant the Democrats would gain a 60-seat majority in the Senate. Meanwhile, 9% of those planning to vote for Martin said the thought of a filibuster-proof Senate makes them less likely to vote...
...down Castro district, which was fast becoming an enclave for the not-yet-outspoken gay culture. With the aid of an unlikely ally, the Teamsters, he organized a boycott of Coors Beer, which at the time refused to hire gays. After three losing runs for a city supervisor seat, he won in 1977, and a year later he helped defeat Proposition 6, which would have banned gay men and women from teaching in public schools. Through his efforts, gay society, high and low, coalesced into a politically effective movement. (You'll be reminded of a more recent band of outsiders...
...mentally inventory the attic, troll the tag sales, join the National Toothpick Holder Collectors Society. Once treasures were prized for their scarcity, but now mass production creates mass disposal and the chance to find worth in the weird and worthless: bottle caps and matchbook covers, swizzle sticks and toilet seats. (There's a toilet-seat-art museum in San Antonio, Texas.) Since objects of desire tend to hold some special meaning, they let people connect with the instant intimacy of shared fixation. If you doubt this, stop by modernmoisttowelette.com to compare notes about the world's best hand wipes...
...Paris has given French opera critics a case of the vapors - but this time, two British new wave pop stars are at the center of the uproar. Since Jean-Luc Choplin became director in 2006, the historic opera house's repertoire of classic opera has increasingly taken a back seat to newer, bolder commissions in a bid to make the Chatelet stage a true crossroads for the arts. From a Bollywood-style remake of the 1923 opera-ballet Padmavati, to a stage mutation of the sci-fi horror film The Fly, the Chatelet has had opera purists hyperventilating...