Midday Open Thread

• Intel has figured out a way to send WiFi signals as far as 60 miles away, which may bring low-cost WiFi to rural areas around the world.
• John Hagee confesses to the New York Times that McCain aggressively sought an endorsement from the highly controversial televangelist.
• Karl Rove sounds off on blogs. Among other musings, he says that conservative blogs are of higher quality. Ha! But, that's not all.  When asked why there are more liberal blogs, he had this to say:

  "I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things," Rove said. "The idea of spending a lot of time on the internet and taking their talents and displaying them there is not something [conservatives] really do."

• Could Rush Limbaugh be charged in Ohio for encouraging Republicans to cross over and vote in the Democratic Primary?  I doubt it.  But, the actual voters who crossed over may be investigated:

  On Thursday, March 20, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that the "Cuyahoga County Board of Election has launched an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against voters who maliciously switched parties for the March 4 presidential primary." According to the report, "One voter scribbled the following addendum to his pledge as a new Democrat: "For one day only."

  "Such an admission amounts to voter fraud," the report continued, attributing that conclusion to BOE member Sandy McNair, a Democrat. The report said the four-member board -- two Democrats and two Republicans -- had yet to vote on whether it would issue subpoenas, although Ohio's secretary of state, Democrat Jennifer Brunner, is empowered to cast tie-breaking votes when the BOE is deadlocked.

• Biologist PZ Myers was expelled before he could preview the creationist movie Expelled. Check out his hilarious account of the incident.