I don't really enjoy discussing politics, so I'll let others do it for me, especially when they do so elegantly.
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koimistress posted an eloquent essay on the subject of the imminently forthcoming U.S. elections.
* Art Small, Senatorial candidate from Iowa, is auctioning off his campaign-in-a-box if you want a ready-made senatorial campaign, ready to go for the 2008 elections.
In other election news, the long-ruling Botswana Democratic Party took 44 of the 57 parliamentary seats. Botswana has Africa's longest continuous multi-party democracy, and is among Africa's most stable countries, the BBC tells me. I wonder what other countries are having elections this week.
In unrelated, if still political, news, Europe is suffering a severe lard shortage. (More lard commentary here.) The shortening of supply is a consequence of all the animal parts usually rendered for lard being bought up by new EU member states to make sausage.
Update:The Ukraine held elections yesterday.
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koimistress posted an eloquent essay on the subject of the imminently forthcoming U.S. elections.* Art Small, Senatorial candidate from Iowa, is auctioning off his campaign-in-a-box if you want a ready-made senatorial campaign, ready to go for the 2008 elections.
In other election news, the long-ruling Botswana Democratic Party took 44 of the 57 parliamentary seats. Botswana has Africa's longest continuous multi-party democracy, and is among Africa's most stable countries, the BBC tells me. I wonder what other countries are having elections this week.
In unrelated, if still political, news, Europe is suffering a severe lard shortage. (More lard commentary here.) The shortening of supply is a consequence of all the animal parts usually rendered for lard being bought up by new EU member states to make sausage.
Update:The Ukraine held elections yesterday.
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All Europe needs to do is start importing lard from Canada... you know, the same way the U.S. needs to get more flu vaccine suppliers. Since both are organic products, I'm sure they're both tied up in all sorts of regulatory twine.
Still, it was useful inasmuch as I know now that much more about someone I've been hearing about from the Common Room folks as much as the Medievalists.
That's our job!
[Mmmm, "mechanically reclaimed meat" and offal tubes!]