Something Lis pointed out to me the other day:

At the moment, the only Protestant on the ticket for either major party is Obama. Biden and Ryan are Catholic; Romney's a Mormon. Of the nine Supreme Court justices, five are Catholic, two are Jewish, and two are Protestant (one Episcopalian, one just identifies as "Protestant"). Harry Reid is Mormon; Nancy Pelosi is Catholic. Eric Cantor is Jewish, and Mitch McConnell, as a Southern Baptist, is the only Protestant in the list.

Things have been changing.

Found the mousie. (Or, possibly, a second one -- wild mice look the same to me.)

Nora was sitting in on the bathmat with a rather smug expression. There was a dead, chewed mouse on the floor next to her. We praised her and flushed the thing.

The weird thing is that we figure that one of us ought to have heard her either digging the mouse corpse out of where it died, or, if it was a new mouse, heard her hunting it. So, no idea.

A DARPA/Boston Robotics walking robot

Appropriate audio commentary was added by a third party, Tim Trusler, who is not associated with DARPA or Boston Robotics, but who was impressed enough by the original video that he felt he created this followup video, demonstrating his observations on the gait of the robot.