OK this is a crazy question, but how do the dancers in music videos/stage shows get started?

How to Write about Africa http://ping.fm/vnVY3

Few literary acquisitions have given me as much pleasure as my new annotated Sherlock Holmes

A must-read for anyone interested in national dialog: http://ping.fm/KzUhx

ESR's dissection of Pat Robertson's "Haiti devil pact" accusations is the most interesting one I've read http://ping.fm/AySrX

Another damn basement flood. Who builds a house with a drain that goes nowhere, anyway?

All I want to know is whether health care reform breaks the tie between employment and health plan. If so it is an improvement.

Something I didn't know: US is way ahead of Europe in using rail for freight. http://ping.fm/z2IIb

"Fandoms" baffle me. Doyle wrote Holmes as asexual, therefore he is asexual. End of speculation. http://ping.fm/gKQaz

Notes on watching SNL best-ofs: George Carlin was never funny. Belushi less funny than I remembered. Chris Walken? Freaking hysterical.

So where should I spend New Years? Anyone throwing/know of a good party?

The only healthcare reform I want is the one where doctor's office staff have to make their money from tips.

Dear white "libertarian" racists: fuck off, freedom doesn't need your "help".

An arbitrary 10% tax on a single micro-industry? That's central economic planning. Hello, socialism.

"A 10% tax on indoor tanning establishments" will help pay for healthcare. WTF? That settles it, congress is on crack.

Why not airships? I'd appreciate feedback: http://ping.fm/W0Hfy

Laura Dekker is possibly the most badass 13 year old on the planet http://ping.fm/4VLnS

The longer I'm alive the more I realize that all the wisdom I've acquired can be summed up with the phrase "chill the fuck out".

"Absurd and anti-life" - John Gatto's 1989 Teacher of the Year acceptance speech http://ping.fm/ttg1l

The origins of America's loony liquor laws http://ping.fm/MCUUc