“Rolando Negrin, a TSA employee at Miami International Airport, was arrested for aggravated battery after he attacked a colleague, in response to coworkers poking fun at the size of his penis during a body-scanning machine training session.” [TPM]

“Neanderthals mated with some modern humans after all and left their imprint in the human genome, a team of biologists has reported in the first detailed analysis of the Neanderthal genetic sequence.” [NYT]

Have you met Spencer Elden? Nice kid. Works for Shepard Fairey, who did the Obama poster. Cute little dick. You might have seen it on an album cover.

Shepard Fairey Employs Nirvana’s Nevermind Baby [Mediabistro, via Kottke]

• iPads arrived.
• Brief rupture of the space-time continuum.
• Stock-chart mixup with Rocky & Bullwinkle graphic.

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The Augean Stables that are Albany  – at last, the cleaning starts:

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has been sentenced to two years in federal prison.

The judge told Bruno 97 months would have been too long of a sentence and probation would have been too little – that is why he decided on this sentence.

Bruno will not begin serving time until the Supreme Court makes a ruling on the Honest Services Law.

After a ruling is made, Bruno’s sentencing will be reevaluated.

Bruno Sentenced to 2 Years in Federal Prison [Fox 23]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31FFTx6AKmU

It’s Election Night for British Bigots, and rather than pretend we know anything, we’ll just kick you over to the Beeb for the latest results. At post time, Labour has a single seat, with just 649 to go.

Election 2010 [BBC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZxk_9GTHrs

California Demrats produce a Demon Sheep sequel, while Sarah Palin comes out for Carly:

Carly is the Commonsense Conservative that California needs and our country could sure use in these trying times. Most importantly, she’s running for the right reasons. She has an understanding that is sorely lacking in D.C. She’s not a career politician. She’s a businesswoman who has run a major corporation. She knows how to really incentivize job creation.

Thousands of HP employees might dispute that, but let’s see what the sheep themselves have to say:

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