The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Nao:

PiscusFiche, I've already voted in Durham, North Carolina (no fault absentee at the Board of Elections, hurrah!), and the ballot didn't seem so bad. It's been much the same since at least 1996 (when I moved here).

The one potential difficulty I can see is that the presidential choice is separate from the straight party line choice. That is, if you vote straight party, you still have to choose your president. But the presidential choice comes before the straight party option, and the poll workers were explaining that part as they handed out ballots.

And thank goodness we're still using paper ballots!

I've also seen Gary Stu or Marty Stu.

FranW: Here's the story about the New Zealand boy (Shane Ellis), found via Google News.

Mm.

I'm another of the cilantro=soap tasters, though I have actually eaten a few things with small quantities of cooked cilantro that tasted good, and wouldn't have been as good without it.

My grandmother, on the other hand, is nauseated by the smell, and says it tastes like squashed stinkbugs. (I've always wondered how she knew...)

I like coriander seed, so whatever chemical it is must not be present in the seeds.

Now that Teresa has narrowed down an early possible date, I wish I could go to the library and check the Herald Sun's letters to the editor for the 8th and a couple of weeks before that. It would be nice to have a definitive answer of some sort. (I really doubt that it's from the Independent.) Unfortunately, I'm going out of town today for a couple of weeks.

Any other readers live in Durham?

Alternatively, here's the Herald-Sun's contact info.

I live in Durham, NC, and have spent a fair amount of time in the local library's periodical section--the only town papers I know of are the Herald Sun and the Independent Weekly (and that's more a regional paper than one specific to Durham, though it's produced in town).

There are currently three letters to the editor having to do with Bush on the Herald Sun's site (two condemning him, and one supporting), but none of them are the nasty piece of work quoted. A quick search of the site doesn't find anything, though that doesn't prove anything--it's possible the paper's search engine doesn't search letters to the editor.

The Independent's search engine is a little better, but also doesn't produce anything. It's a little less likely to be the source, since it's our lefty paper, though I do see occasional right-wing rants in the letters to the editor.

Perhaps somebody with ready access to a news database (Lexis Nexis, say) could search the Herald Sun using a more reliable interface?

Not that it matters much--another question for the original sender of the email is why we should take a letter to the editor as a more reliable authority than other sources of information. Though it would be nice to know who was responsible for writing this garbage...

here's the NYT article link (the USERLAND version that lets you see it without registering).

Xopher, Epacris: I don't know if this is what Teresa means, but a duster is also a lightweight coat you wear when riding in one of those newfangled automobiles. It keeps the dust off your clothes.

Rachael: Given the poetry context, I think the H.D. in question may be the poet mentioned here.

I will happily be corrected...

Tom, you have to make sure that none of the words are capitalized. (I had the same problem). here's the link anyway.

Tom Whitmore said, I'm totally curious why each word on the Disraeli and his wombat link leads to the same image -- I'm used to seperate links leading to separate bits here.

I'm just going to come out of random-stranger-lurkerhood for a moment, here. Try clicking on the spaces between the words--I discovered this by accident.

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