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I think I've cut my typo rate down a full .08 percent. Woo-hoo! (I maintain the typographical errors as some sort of charming artfulness.)

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AÂ Pixelated Kim Jong Il raises speculation that he is dead

The Stranger reviews a new collection of one of the greatest comic books of all time, HerbieÂ

Some good news because of no news in Palestine.

Dan Savage ponders the gay voters of McCain and, if you click a link from there,Â the black voters for Proposition 8.

Exciting Cryonic News:Â Frozen Mice Cloned.

Obama delivered his victory speech behind bullet-proof glass.

Of course

I have to fight a bolt of deep cynicism (Had to be choreographed, right?), but check it out anyway.

Okay, butÂ she does realize that the song is the introduction song for Sean Hannity?Â Apparently yes.

RFKjr’s Autism – Vaccination case and the rumors of himÂ filling a potential Obama cabinet position have Scientists worried.

In all seriousness, best of luck to this effort.Â (linked to from here.)Â Certainly more constructive than this effort.Â (linked to in various spots, including hereÂ and here.)

CNN’s Hologram.Â Just bizarre.

Who went more McCain than Bush and who went more Obama than Kerry?Â Â What a weird deposit of coal Appalachia (vaguely understood) is.

One interesting result:Â If you subtract the other candidates and read California like a rematch between Obama and Keyes (the two Illinois U.S. Senate candidates in 2004), Obama wins 99.5 percent to 0.5 percent.

9/11 Truth Activist’s table kicked out of PDX Airport.Â One comment:Â he’s going to have to plaster up a new set of enemies.

I will park this and come back to itÂ at my leisure.Â You may feel free to ingore it.

The obligatory “We are all Americans” reprise.

The story of Darcy Burner.

Park this Â Li’l Abner image for future reference.

Yes, Dolly is dressed as… exactly who you think she’s dressed as.

Satire: the new Reality.

Some Small TalkÂ illustrative of something

With less than a week left before the most important Presidential election in at least a generation, the McCain campaign has decided that, having failed to convince most Americans that Barack Obama is actually a closet Muslim, its best hope for winning undecided voters is to accuse Obama of having Muslim friends.

I wasn’t terribly impressed by this when it was aired.Â Â But my brother was.Â Garfield and Friends was repetitive as hell.

Joseph Biden thought she was a parody.

Now THERE‘S an association to celebrate!

Rush Limbaugh explains the impending McCain defeat.

Interactive search of NY Times endorsements from Lincoln to Obama.Â One good stretch of red and Two long blocks of blue.

On the Third Party Debate

Palin look alikes Stripping Contest.Â (ugh.)

Voting Intimidation in New Mexico

Seeing as it turned out to be a hoax, it is okay to consider this joke funny.

Russia broadcasts 9/11 Conspiracy Theories.

First dibs at the rocky history of the John McCain campaign.

Will we ever stop electing Andrew Jackson?

Afghan gets 20 years for talking about Women’s Rights

Seattle solves a little problem.

Shannon Wheeler went to see Ralph Nader

Potted Plant blogs.

Actually, leaving aside anything Alex Constantine has to say here about Ron Paul and the John Birch Society, I find the Back to the Future logo amusing.

Judith Miller once upon a time had her articles published in magazines such as The Progressive.Â Now she is a contributer to Fox News.Â I think this makes her a “neo-conservative”.

Blacks Against Obama head targetted for assassination?

Quit sending Barack Obama campaign donations.Â This is all the proof you need that he has too much right now.

If only we had the Cat Magnet, this life would have been saved.

Austrian far right mourns death of Haider.

Michelle Bachmann:Â what of it?

Jeremiah Wright, understood by those guys

Speaking of which, just out of curiosity: every single person reading this blog post knows what Andrew Sullivan is driving at, so why bother being cute?

French consideration ofÂ Mark Twain.

If the Democrats get to 60 Senate seats without Mississippi, that would probably be a good thing.

Some appropriate silliness

The Leadership Genius of George W Bush

Stalin’s Cartoonist Dies at 108

Reminscent of some accounts from the 1930s, Chicago SherrifÂ haltsÂ evicting foreclosed houses.

Good Luck in battling this regime.