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When you see this, post in your own journal with your favorite quote from The Princess Bride.
Preferably not "As you wish" or the Inigo Montoya speech.

Miracle Max: See, there's a big difference between mostly dead, and all dead. Now, mostly dead: he's slightly alive. All dead, well, with all dead, there's usually only one thing that you can do.
Inigo: What's that?
Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

Intriguing

And possibly quite stupid... Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, will testify on his own behalf in his corruption trial.

Did I say quite stupid? I did.

This actually goes beyond "quite stupid" to potentially "the dumbest thing Ted Stevens has ever done". And this is the man who brought us the phrase 'an Internet was sent by my staff'.

Now, he can't be compelled to testify against himself, but you know that if the prosecuting attorney is even halfway on his game, and not delibitated by the flu or the moose pox, or whatever disgusting diseases they have up in Alaska (what? It's not being held in Alaska? In DC? God, that's worse. All those... *shudder* politicians...), he's going to ask questions that Stevens isn't going to want to answer.

What can Stevens do? Well, he can refuse to answer some or all of the questions asked him on the grounds that it would incriminate himself. Note that the Fifth Amendment is not all inclusive, so it's possible that Stevens' own testimony on one question could lead to him being forced to answer.

Still, it's not the brightest move.

But it damn well could lead to some Daily Show highlights.

Dear Amazon.

You suck.

Once again, Amazon has pulled the "Oh sure, we can get this for you" trick.

It seems that they can't actually get any copies of Warren Ellis' "Aetheric Mechanics". But it took them three months to tell me that.