17,000 visits

17,000 visits, originally uploaded by -SPK.

Just wanted to say thank you to the 17,000 people who visited PatrickKaine.com

Y'all come back now, ya hear?

Watch Christopher Hitchens Get Waterboarded (VANITY FAIR)

Here is another update on Waterboarding. (previous one here)

It's crazy how quickly the people are giving up. Crazy.

But, it is torture and why?

My ladies

My ladies, originally uploaded by -SPK.

This picture makes me happy.

Waterboarding: How long could you last?

We've all read so much about Waterboarding and whether or not it is torture. I had never seen a demonstration before. Watch below as this journalist tries to go through 15 seconds of it.



Having seen this - do you consider Waterboarding Torture? Leave a comment.

An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country

http://slate.com/id/2216238/

Idiot Example

Nice quoit!

Nice quoit!, originally uploaded by -SPK.

Beck about to land a point on our new Quoit set over the weekend.

Get your own at http://quoitfactory.com/

Spin me around!

Paige and Kaitlyn spin at the bowling alley.

I love how Paige just drops Kaitlyn when she's done.

A letter from The White House

I posted this video on a memorable November 4th, 2008 just after Paige and I voted for Barack Obama:



At the end of December, Paige wanted to write this letter:



Full version here:



Well, today we got this envelope in the in the mail:



And this note was inside it:




Pretty darn cool, I say! Paige is so fired up!

Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn, originally uploaded by -SPK.

New Computer Wallpaper

New Wallpaper, originally uploaded by -SPK.

It's supposed to look like you are viewing "through" the monitor... it was very hard to do and harder to match the colors of the screen to the "real" background.

Still a really fun project.

Jason McElway, Autistic Basketball Hero