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...even wait for the election. Last summer he said we were soon going to measure time by "BB, before Barack, and AB, after Barack.") In some of his supporters, we see the spectacle of secular-minded folk looking for a messiah. But we risk looking like spoilsports or sore losers, and we can sympathize with the excitement over the first nonwhite President, even if we would have preferred that someone else had played the role...
...reveals the hollowness of his previous rhetoric. Even supposing that Coleman’s contentions are legitimate, he should have watched his mouth before or stuck to his guns and accepted the results of the recount without a challenge—now he looks like a liar, a sore loser, or perhaps both...
Whatever your medicine of choice, you should realize that it's probably not going to work. Hangovers exist for a reason - your mouth is dry because you're dehydrated. Your eyes are red because you probably didn't sleep very well, and your body is sore because you just drank something that is basically poisonous. No amount of Worcestershire sauce, egg yolk or myrrh can change the fact that five hours ago, you were downing lemon drops and dancing on top of a bar to music by KC and the Sunshine Band. So take a shower, have something...
...Garcia Luna, who just became a citizen this year, is hopeful that his vote will be counted by the canvassing board. "If you look at the mathematics, I'm like 5% of what Franken needs to win. I feel very upset. Also very important." But Garcia Luna isn't sore at the Coleman campaign for not wanting his vote counted. Though he only recently became a Minnesotan, he already sounds as if he were born here. "It's just politics," he says. "We divide partisanship from civics...
...season is still about a month away, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) wants Americans to get vaccinated now. There's no cure for the influenza virus, which in its worldwide perambulations can mutate from a simple runny nose-and-sore-throat to a fatal illness. Each year, 36,000 Americans die from the flu, but thanks to National Influenza Vaccination Week and a record number of available doses, maybe this year will be better...