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I was intending to put up a thread like this Monday evening, on the thought that we might have something to say as events unfolded in Alabama Tuesday. But today brought something worth starting early.

The election in Alabama seems to be very close, with the result hinging on (primarily) turnout, and (secondarily) how many staunch Republicans will vote for someone not-Roy-Moore. Both of those feel, from the far side of the country, like a matter of permission.

Then this happened**. The senior, Republican, Senator from Alabama, Richard Shelby, got up this morning and said:

"I didn't vote for Roy Moore. I wouldn't vote for Roy Moore. I think the Republican Party can do better."

(He also said that believes the women, and that his former counterpart, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has likewise said he had no reason to doubt Moore's accusers.)

He not only said he hasn't voted for Moore yet, he said that he plans to write in someone else on his ballot. (He declined to say who.)

Think about that for a moment. If you are a totally tribal Republican partisan in Alabama, you just got a top guy in your party saying that it's just fine to not vote for your party's nominee. In a race as close as this one looks to be, that could tip the balance.

Now we get to see how the vote counts go.

** The Alabama Media Group is local. It publishes several of the biggest papers in Alabama, and also runs some TV news. They date back a couple of centuries in Alabama. That is, they aren't some coastal elite telling Alabamans what to do. And they ran an editorial this morning saying Our View: Conservatives should consider Senator Shelby's example.

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Once on the twitter machine I mused about how cruel you have to be to think it was appropriate to deport "DREAMer" types, people who were brought to this country as kids through no agency of their own and who really have no "home" country (or language) to go back to.

A Trumpkin responded it was very insensitive to use the term "DREAMer" because it suggests that other kids (DREAMers mostly aren't kids, but whatever) don't have dreams, too.

I don't even know what to do with that.

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Have you ever been sitting in your office, or maybe your basement with no windows and felt claustrophobic or cramped? Well, when all the frustration from the day has you holding your head in your hands and you’re at your wits end…look up!  Designed to reduce the harsh glare from existing fluorescent lighting, these amazingly realistic looking Skypanels will having you feeling free and relaxed and in a better mindset to conquer you next goal.   They would look great in a hospital, school, office building, basement or even bathroom with no windows.  They come in a variety of different scenes and can be used to replace any standard 2′ x 4′ light diffuser panel. My personal favorite is the one that looks like you’re beneath a shark tank…that may or may not be a result of  my binge-watching Shark Week all week.  A few of their designs are currently being offered for $35.95 on Amazon.com, or if you’re feeling creative, you can go to the Skypanels website and design your own. You deserve that office with a skylight!

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If you're working in a place that's short on space, then you're really going to want to check out the Sho U KiBoJet pico projector-keyboard. As CNET informs us, this clever little keyboard includes a tiny projector that beams whatever you're using it for onto the nearest wall. You can hook the keyboard up to small computers such as the Intel Compute Stick that are essentially full-fledged PCs on USB sticks. This essentially means you can take only a keyboard with you to work just about anywhere there's a blank wall around you.

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