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I might resort to doing more of these over the next few weeks as I move (once again) and continue to earnestly seek gainful employment with a political campaign.


Lopez Lomong, a Sudanese refugee, was chosen to be the flag bearer at the Beijing Olympics. China's relationship with Sudan has been, to put it mildly, criticized.

President Musharraf is on the way out, possibly.

Anonymous Liberal (a blog everyone should check out) does a marvelous job of detailing how the GOP's threat to shut down the government over off shore oil drilling is a perfect opportunity for them to galvanize their supporters with the insane zealotry that makes them oh so very special.

There's an excellent interview with David Skaggs and Porter Goss - of the newly formed Office of Congressional Ethics - up at the American Prospect website.

The University of North Dakota's most recent Law Review contained six - out of seven - articles devoted to attacks on same-sex marriages. A local paper rightly took them to task for it, stating that they used "dubious" scholarship and questioning the appropriateness of devoting an entire issue to one side of an argument. Another interesting fact mentioned in the In-Forum article is that, in its 2009 session, North Dakota's legislature will seek to amend the North Dakota Human Rights and Fair Housing Acts to include sexual orientation and gender identity. (I could find nothing else that mentions this on a quick google search.)

Finally, for those of you that don't have the time to watch C-SPAN all day, Rep. Louise Slaughter sums up her testimony about the Department of Defense's attempts to circumvent congressional oversight of sexual assault allegations.