The breaking news is over on Chessaholic’s blog…

A preview:

“Don’t worry, they have confirmed that the chance that a sustainable black hole will form and consume the earth is quite small.”

Reply to RT Solo

Comment by RT Solo | 10 August 2008

The number of unlucky people in the world is high enough. Get your popcorn ready.

Reply to Donnie

Comment by Donnie | 11 August 2008

The interesting thing I’ve heard is that if the media had looked into this story seriously early on (Heard something about their being longstanding reports or something that have been ignored) then with Edwards out of the running in Iowa Hillary might have won there and eventually gotten the nomination. I guess we will never know.

Reply to l3rucewayne

Comment by l3rucewayne | 11 August 2008

So…. how many people do you think knew it was a country and not just an American state?

Reply to Allen

Comment by Allen | 12 August 2008

@l3rucewayne: Yeah, I saw that, it’s probably true. Clinton would have basically walked through; Obama probably needed the initial win to be competitive.

@Allen: 1/3 was the first number that came to mind.

But when whenever they do those surverys of Americans’ knowledge of geography, we’re always more terribad than I could fathom. Probably more like 1/8.

Reply to Donnie

Comment by Donnie | 12 August 2008

i thought the big news was the deaths of bernie mac and isaac hayes…

Reply to chessloser

Comment by chessloser | 12 August 2008

Hmmm. But were they white enough to make breaking news in American media? That’s the first question I’d ask.

Reply to Donnie

Comment by Donnie | 15 August 2008