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UPDATE # 1: Quick--Which is the more dysfunctional/chaotic situation--Iran's election results or New York State's Senate? In Iran when they talking about hanging Chads, they mean capital punishments. Do they stone chads instead?

Flash: The Iranian Election Commission has just hired Katherine Harris to do the recount.

In New York, Pedro Espada, Jr. is/ is not the second in line to be Governor of New York, which could mean that if Gov. Paterson decides to take some time off, Espada could pardon himself for any of the many transgressions that are the subject of investigations that are currently pending involving his business activities, his residency, his missing campaign reports, his unpaid campaign fines, his campaign, his jay walking, his parking tickets, that he endorsed a check below the line that says do not endorse below this line, and the allegation that he removed that tag from the mattress that says do not remove under penalty of removal from office.

You may ask "How did this guy get elected in the first place?" Well, he was running against Efrain Gonzalez, who is going to prison. He was under indictment for fraud when Espada ran against him. Efrain Gonzalez stood accused since of stealing more than $400,000 from nonprofit groups to which he had routinely routed state grants. The feds say that the money went to pay the senator's often extravagant personal expenses, including fees for a vacation club in the Dominican Republic, renovations for his mother-in-law's home (also in the D.R.), jewelry, clothes, credit-card bills, and the design and printing of special cigar bands.

Maybe we should have paid more attention to Pedro Espada's campaign slogan: " I've never stolen anything--give me a chance."

UPDATE # 2: You recall the case against the cereal sellers who have perpetrated Cap'n Crunch cereal upon an unsuspecting public--leading the gullible Vitamin C deprived to believe that there was a fruit called "crunchberies"--full of juice and enough fiber to make a crunching sound to compete with the snap, crackle, and pops of this world. Janine Sugawara, the woman who sued the manufacturer of "Cap'n Crunch with Crunch Berries" for allegedly misleading her about the "berries," moved for reargument, and once again her plea was denied. She alleged she was mislead. She believed the word "berries"on the box meant there were actual fruits in the cereal.

Of course she also believed that Chuck Berry and Halle Berry were fruits because of their appellations. She asked Cap'n Crunch--but he could not supply an answered because of his policy "Don't ask--Don't tell."