Wahooooo!!! They're counting ballots in Florida! I can't help, but think that the Republicans are just plain evil for pushing their power in the legislature to override the will of the people and decide for themselves who their electoral votes should go to. Just plain evil. It's a sure sign that we need to take those ancient powers away. I think nobody has bothered to take them away, because they never imagined in this day and age that anyone would stoop so low as to use them. We are an edumacated society now. I would certainly not want my vote overriden by someone who thinks they know better than me.
The space microbe!!! That is cool. It seems though, that it would be very likely that a) the weather balloon was contaminated or b) it swirled up to the stratosphere by natural processes or c) we find that the biosphere is larger than we previously thought. I don't find it too suprising either that it was a totally new species of bacterium. I would suppose their are thousands or millions of unknown bacterium. Still, I do favor the theory that life was brought to earth by comets and asteroids. I guess that makes this part of my blog and the entire news report kind of meaningless all around. I sure wish we could have somekind of wonderful scientific discovery that knocked us all on our collective ass. I sure could use that kind of boost of excitement right about now.