Upstate New York's version of justice.

So when Marc informed me that upstate New York received about 2 feet of snow a couple of weeks ago, I didn't get too nostalgic for my mostly cold days at SUNY Oswego.  Then in today's news, I came across a case where a Buffalo judge told a Buffalo teacher (a Canadian citizen who commutes to Buffalo) convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl he could avoid a one-year jail sentence by accepting a three-year exile to Canada.  WHAT?!?  Because Canada openly welcomes teachers who commit sexual abuse.  Unbelievable.

Speaking of issues at the U.S. border, this concerns me a bit especially given the lack of transparency as to reasons why it happens.

For you football fans, I read a pretty interesting article about how the NFL manages the questionable calls.  It's amazing with all of the manpower assigned to watching the referees that they still get really obvious calls wrong.  Also congratulations to the New York Giants for stomping on T.O.'s party in Dallas on Monday evening.

With election season in full swing, Marc and I have both lamented about why we cannot remove ourselves from the annual deluge of candidate solicitations over the phone.  Well the NYT asked the same question and poked fun at some of the more humorous messages played for voters.  I'm going to link to this article but I think it may unfortunately be part of the NYT's premium service so some of you may not be able to see it.  Sorry.

Lisa, my sister in the 2nd trimester of her pregnancy, had a tough time with morning sickness early on.  She seems to have battled through it, but in today's NYT there was an article about nausea and morning sickess.  It looks like doctors say that normal morning sickness generally indicates a healthy pregnancy, so hope that makes you feel better, Lisa!

Continuing on the health topic, I also read something today about the medical impact of 9/11's dust in NYC.  I was there on the day of, and lived and worked downtown overlooking the site subsequently after 9/11.  Let me tell you, contrary to all reports, the air was not at healthy levels.  We even received memos from Merrill Lynch telling us that they conducted their own tests in addition to the EPA, and that the air was good.  Then when I took a road trip with my friends Ian and Holly to Boston about 6 weeks after, we realized what fresh air actually smelled like.  It will be interesting to see how these lawsuits pan out.

Finally I saw a couple e-mails about this awhile ago, but never set my phone to do this.  Something to think about?