An exasperating, sodden, miscue-filled loss for our Raiders up in Seattle yesterday. What sort of headline should a recap of this game have? We explored this thought, and here's what we came up with. You should add some more in the Comments section. Here we go: ...

A few days ago, the Secretary of State of California, Bruce McPherson, certified those Diebold Election Systems electronic voting systems to be used in California for upcoming elections. Up to twenty-one counties in California are said to be interested in buying them, including Alameda, Marin, and Humboldt. The move is a bit of a reversal in that McPherson, a Republican (this will become important in a bit, so hold on), said that he'd wait for test results from the Independent Testing Authority (ITA) before approving, but just went ahead and announced the move anyways before hearing from them. ...