NEVER FORGET

Another millionaire next door giving to charity

Guy who never made more than $11 an hour is giving away millions to charity.  Via msn:

Paul Navone is one of those quiet millionaires next door. His friends had no idea he had money until he started giving it away — $1 million to a college and another $1 million to a prep school. The 78-year-old retiree never made more than $11 an hour while working in the New Jersey mills, according to a story by Joe Logan in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and to this day Navone buys his clothing at thrift stores, and doesn’t have a TV or a phone.

Schadenfreude

Two links for this one: chron.com and 365gay (the quote is from the second article).

The district attorney who defended the Texas law criminalizing homosexuality before the US Supreme Court is desperately trying to keep his job following the discovery of e-mails containing sexually explicit videos, racist jokes and what is described as torrid love notes to his executive secretary.
[. . .]
Rosenthal who is married and portrayed himself as a “family values” candidate ended his re-election campaign last week after the sexy emails to his secretary were discovered. His current term runs out at the end of 2008.
[...]
In his arguments he condemned adultery and homosexual acts.

“I think that this Court having determined that there are certain kinds of conduct that it will accept and certain kinds of conduct it will not accept may draw the line at the bedroom door of the heterosexual married couple because of the interest that this Court has that this Nation has and certainly that the State of Texas has for the preservation of marriage, families and the procreation of children,” Rosenthal told the justices.

Generic drug update

It’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these, so I’ll probably forget something.

Available as a generic now:

Huckabee, Iowa? Really?

I’m still trying to rationalize why my home state of Iowa picked Huckabee in the straw poll.