Strike the phrase "Promote the General Welfare" from the Preamble.

Dunno. Lefty FB friend thinks it's a refutation of the claim that govt. has gotten bigger under Teh One.

My birthday is Nov. 4.  A date shared by two disasters.

1. Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
2. Barack Obama is elected President of the United States.

The same 1:176E6.  The odds are are a characteristic of  the ticket, not who bought it. 

It is also surprising how so few people seem to understand that picking 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 is just as likely to win as any other combinations.

Two things are true about the lottery:

1. You can't win without a ticket.
2. You're not going to win.

That said, any expediture beyond $1 is even more of a waste than the first $.  Still, I like to get a ticket when the jackpot grows to today's staggeringly high levels.  Kinda fun to daydream about how wonderful, and likely ruinous, that kind of money would be like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aau-eqv6gQ&feature=related

The attraction and appreciation of Lolita is simple:

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns."

How do you not keep reading?