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Well here's some good news, courtesy of the Washington Post via O-No!.

"You would think that your emotional state would depend on your own choices and actions and experience," said Nicholas Christakis, a medical sociologist at Harvard University who helped conduct the study published online Friday by BMJ, a British medical journal. "But it also depends on the choices and actions and experiences of other people, including people to whom you are not directly connected. Happiness is contagious."

Duh.

Courtesy of the fine readers of the Raleigh News and Observer. If you're not embarrassed by your fellow citizens, you should be.

The Raleigh edition of the O-No!* has a decent editorial today about the mandate for the new Congress.

Pelosi was smart to take impeachment "off the table." Attempts to deliver payback to the Republicans for their shenanigans of the last few years -- when they virtually ignored Democrats -- would be wasted. And the American people have waited a long time for legislation that addresses their real and understandable concerns in meaningful ways.

Though I would just about kill to see the Criminal-in-Chief impeached, I believe cooler heads should prevail. Perhaps Bush will eventually be tried for crimes against humanity in the Hague, but for now, he will simply twist in the wind as the most imcompetent and corrupt American president ever.

O-No! has been all a'twitter lately prognosticating the possibilities of Senator Dull calling it quits. The Raleigh edition had this story last week, and the Charlotte edition weighs in today, with Mr. Tim Funk doing the honors. The stories are virtually identical, which makes it hard to understand why O-No! paid to have it written twice.

But it's a good story all the same, because it asks the senior Senator to answer a very important question: why doesn't she care about North Carolina? Naturally, her first instinct when confronted with that question is to lie:

I asked Dole if she thought N.C. voters would be OK with her spending so much of her time this year jetting around the country on behalf of GOP Senate candidates.

"I've certainly not heard people objecting to it ... I think they understand that it's important to keep the (Republican) majority if we want to continue to see the policies that have benefited folks and families -- like tax relief," she said. "In addition, I think people understand that being in the (Senate GOP) leadership means that you've had an opportunity to discuss issues that are important to North Carolina."