Oh, look over there, it's another earth. Oh, look over there, it's another earth. Oh, look over there...ad nauseum.

Are female sanitary products really the first thing people think about when they hear the word "pad"? I guess I'm just not in that world.

@1: the reason the discovery of the planet is notable is because it's orbiting the star (more accurately, stars) closest to ours. So this is literally our next door neighbor.

Why do you consider the Zumba prostitution thing national news? I could see if you were bringing attention to the story in an effort to normalize the idea of prostitution, but that doesn't seem like the intent in today's morning news.

@1, it's really pretty cool. Only a few decades ago many astronomers were not totally convinced that other stars would have many planets let alone the number they seem to have.

Oh and our evil twin rammed into us millions of years ago (I think it was called Theta?) and the destructive residue created the moon.

I love that there are now so many known Earthlike planets that @1 can be bored by it.

I don't know about you, but I sure love living in the future.

This planet has the smallest mass — a measurement of weight that doesn't include gravity — that has been found outside our solar system so far.

Maybe not much Wow Factor, but at least a Golly Gee Factor.

We should launch a probe full of Robot Chicken archives, and see what they send back.

I'm still torn on the Candy thing, I liked it when it happened but good lord did it give the right ammunition on the "biased" claims.

As for the right wingers saying she lied on the fact check, don't make me stab you.

The argument is that "She was wrong because the statement wasn't calling the current acts an act of terror. That wasn't the context of the statement Obama was making."

The irony of arguing context here is laughable. The context of the statement Candy made was that Romney was arguing semantics. He was pushing specifically about that one word, he wasn't talking about the context in which it was delivered.

So in the context of the debate, her statement was completely true...

Context is only important when it benefits your own claims apparently...YOU DIDN"T BUILD THAT!

At least there's an NHL offer on the table, and they're shooting for a full season to start Nov. 2. On the other hand, no offer for two weeks, and then Bettman makes a so-so offer with a one week deadline. Donald Fehr is just as big an asshole, and he's going to want to drag this out a bit. I'm hoping for Dec 1, but Gretzky said Jan 1.

Mudede covered the fish plant thing exactly 24 hours ago.

@3: It's a national story. It was also Megan's prerogative to choose whatever articles she deemed newsworthy.

Those who want to follow a game with NHLers in action can listen into CITR 101.9 FM (of course there is streaming at www.citr.ca) when Bieksa and his buddies, including Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Dan Hamhuis, Manny Malhotra, Max Lapierre, Cory Schneider, and Willie Mitchell play against the UBC Thunderbirds in a charity event tonight at 7:30 pm. Hockey is hockey, and those who think a greedy NHL Commissioner with three lockouts under his watch dictates what hockey is, while other leagues play their scheduled games are deluded.

Sgt doom, you forgot to mention that Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala were arrested before the debate and held until after it. It is interesting to listen to the debate on Democracy Now and hear the rest of the candidates speak.

The other planet is clearly the tenth planet, Mondas, as has been foretold.

@15, The Stranger or most of the Sloggers don't listen to Democracy Now...it's not main stream media enough for the newspaper's publisher.

Thank you for mentioning that biffp @15.

Here is Democracy Now!'s second expanded presidential debate featuring Jill Stein of the Green Party, Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party, and Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party.

This is part of Democracy Now!'s Expanding the Debate series.

Also watch the segment on Jill Stein's arrest and eight hour detainment yesterday for attempting to enter the venue of last night's debate.

You should watch the expanded debate, even if only to get a few belly laugh's from Virgil Goode's (rhymes with "lude") earnest xenophobia and advocacy of assault weapons (for hunting, of course). And his accent -- not that there's anything wrong with that.

Damn it, I meant "lewd". Hmm, 'lude works too.