Electoral College votes on December 15
Big states, whether red or blue, get shortchanged--thanks to the political deal hatched by the Founders to boost rural clout. For instance, Wyoming, with 515,000 people, gets three electors (equal to two senators and one House member), while Pennsylvania, with 12.4 million people, gets 21 electors (equal to two senators and 19 House members). That's 172,000 people for each Wyoming elector, and 592,000 people for each Pennsylvania elector. This disparity violates the Supreme Court-endorsed principle of one person, one vote. Democrats who live in states such as Texas and Alabama, and Republicans who live in states such as New York and California, are essentially doomed to cast meaningless votes, because the odds are overwhelming that their candidates will never win statewide. Only the "swing state" citizens get to feel important at election time--which explains why candidates typically lavish far more attention on Florida than on Massachusetts. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/35668579.html

It's Time to Junk the Electoral College --we don't need an amendment to do it
The Electoral College was created in 1787 by a constitutional convention whose delegates were unconvinced that the election of the president could be entrusted to an unfiltered vote of the people, and were concerned about the division of power among the 13 states. Under the proposed National Popular Vote compact, already enacted by four states--Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois and Hawaii--and introduced in 41 others, state legislatures would agree to choose electors who promise to support the winner of the nationwide popular vote.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122930124441705413.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Love Fatigues is a New York-based clothing manufacturer of, among other things, Barack Obama t-shirts. Bambu, an iconic brand of rolling papers is suing the company for trademark infringement.
The complaint begins:
Bambu, one of the World’s 1000 Oldest Companies, opened its doors in 1764. Since that time, Bambu has led the rolling paper industry in standard and style.
The complaint essentially alleges that Love Fatigue’s Barack Obama-related designs rip off Bambu’s trademark. “Significantly,” the complaint goes on, “Defendants are facilitating consumer confusion by describing their shirts as ‘Obambu.’ . . . Moreover, Defendants’ unlawful conduct is likely to subject Bambu to criticism and scorn insofar as Defendants are depicting President-elect Barack Obama smoking marijuana, and such depiction is likely to confuse the consuming public into believing that the offensive advertising emanated from Bambu.” Click here for the suit, which was filed yesterday in the Southern District of New York.
WSJ Law Blog December 12, 2008

List of oldest companies, 578-1851 according to Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies#See_also

On December 13, a car turned on a major street in Toledo going through a red light—we nearly collided—he was mad and I was confused. He had no headlights on and I didn’t understand he was in a line of cars going to a cemetery. Ohio law defines a funeral procession as two or more vehicles accompanying a dead person in the daytime and operating with headlights lit and displaying a purple and white pennant. Pedestrians and other vehicles, except emergency vehicles or vehicles directed by a police officer, must yield right-of-way to the procession. The other vehicles in the procession can follow the lead vehicle that lawfully entered the intersection regardless of the traffic signal, provided they exercise due care (Ohio Code § 4511. 451). You may find your own state at the following link: http://www.cga.ct.gov/2004/rpt/2004-R-0303.htm Please note the information is from 2004, and should be checked to see if still valid.

Management of one million feral camels in Australia People are asked to eat camel meat to help save the continent's water resources being consumed by the roaming animals in the desert. http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/research/feralcamels.html