I could do 2 weeks standing on my head for a cool 2 million

(Can someone please tell me how to make cool-looking links? I would just write NY Times, and you could click on that, and it would really be http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/us/30settle.html )

U.S. Will Pay $2 Million to Lawyer Wrongly Jailed

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: November 30, 2006
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — The federal government agreed to pay $2 million Wednesday to an Oregon lawyer wrongly jailed in connection with the 2004 terrorist bombings in Madrid, and it issued a formal apology to him and his family.
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Brandon Mayfield was mistakenly linked to the Madrid bombings.
The unusual settlement caps a two-and-a-half-year ordeal that saw the lawyer, Brandon Mayfield, go from being a suspected terrorist operative to a symbol, in the eyes of his supporters, of government overzealousness in the war on terrorism.
“The United States of America apologizes to Mr. Brandon Mayfield and his family for the suffering caused” by his mistaken arrest, the government’s apology began. It added that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which erroneously linked him to the Madrid bombs through a fingerprinting mistake, had taken steps “to ensure that what happened to Mr. Mayfield and the Mayfield family does not happen again.”

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my new blog! my new blog? my new blog... my new blog.

I suppose I have a blog now. I registered so I could post something on another blog, and they gave me my own page. They seem to be intent on furthering the proliferation of these things. Is that a good thing? I don't know. But maybe there will be some "comments"...