I haven't posted in a while because I haven't had too much to post about. I've been looking up fantasy baseball stats recently, but that appeals to a very limited crowd. But here's an interesting article on the lineage of Clinton and Obama. A few highlights...

• Barack Obama is a distant cousin of Brad Pitt


• Hillary Rodham Clinton is related to Pitt's girlfriend, Angelina Jolie


• Clinton, who is of French-Canadian descent on her mother's side, is also a distant cousin of singers Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette


• Obama, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, can call six U.S. presidents, including George W. Bush, his cousins.


• McCain is a sixth cousin of first lady Laura Bush.


• Obama's distant cousins include President George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson, Harry S. Truman and James Madison. Other Obama cousins include Vice President Dick Cheney, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Civil War General Robert E. Lee.


• Clinton's distant cousins include beatnik author Jack Kerouac and Camilla Parker-Bowles

Also, an interesting article about the economy comparing it to the 1930s. Here's another. They both explain the credit crisis.

Here's some news that will someday track you down 1984 style. The first is an article about face recognition software that doesn't even need to see your eyes, nose, or mouth to recognize you. Another technology can track where you have been using hair and the isotopes in it in relation to tap water in different cities.