25. October, 2002 - Sen. Paul Wellstone, R.I.P.

• Middle of the day update:
  • Sen. Wellstone Dies in Plane Crash from Yahoo News
  • Senator, family members killed in Minnesota plane crash from CNN.
  • Sen. Paul Wellstone killed in plane crash.
  • There's also a Paul Wellstone Tribute site up already.
  That narrows the choices a bit in the race for Senator. I wonder how long it'll take the Republicans to pull their attack-ads.
  
  I'm not sure what happens at this point, but as I understand it, there are two possibilities:

  1. The MN State DFL gets to appoint a new candidate, who will run as normal.
  2. Wellstone's name stays on the ballot, and if elected, Gov. Jesse Ventura gets to appoint a replacement.

  I'm not sure which is actually the case right now, but I expect we'll hear soon enough.
  Sure enough, Jim comes through with the information contained in http://www.sos.state.mn.us/election/laws2000/00el204b.pdf which says that the state DFL gets to pick a new candidate, and we'll get a supplemental ballot on election day.

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• Greek scientists say Index Finger Length Can Predict Penis Size [warning: popup], so it must be true. But they do think they need to study more to be sure. [boing boing]
• The Ladder Theory explains a lot about men and women, except I seem to be pretty good at not falling off the ladder when I get kicked in the head. [fark!]
• Perspective: Waiting for the Net meltdown is commentary by an old friend. [Jim]
• Another possible meltdown would be a super-worm like Curious Yellow and it sounds plausible enough that we'll probably see such a thing floating around in the wild soon. And then what? [boing boing]
• Davezilla has started the Tarot of the Blogger. Hopefully he'll see it through to completion (so we don't have to say Davezilla's not playing with a full deck). [davezilla]
• Check out the (in)Famous Gun Nuts [warning: flash, slow animation]. Someone griped that I hadn't been posting enough gun-nut links lately, so here ya go. [endwar]
• As as to why you might want to be a gun, nut, Jim offered the following: John Trudell [warning: popup] is a poet, author, musician, and activist. Once the co-chair and spokesperson for the American Indian Movement he burned an American flag on the steps of the FBI headquarters. The next day his wife and mother-in-law were killed in a house fire in AZ. He has a right, perhaps, to be more paranoid then most of us. (But that doesn't mean he's wrong)
  With that in mind, please read these excepts from an interview him regarding the current "War on Terrorism".
  If you like you can listen to the entire 30 minute interview. [Jim]

Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek. Last updated on Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:13:43.