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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 05:04pm on 01/11/2004
I don't really enjoy discussing politics, so I'll let others do it for me, especially when they do so elegantly.

* [livejournal.com profile] 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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Meep!

posted by [identity profile] saffronjan.livejournal.com at 02:22pm on 01/11/2004
** rushes off to hoard lard before it's too late **
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Re: Meep!

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:27pm on 01/11/2004
You aren't in Europe! It's okay!

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.
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voting?

posted by (anonymous) at 02:43pm on 01/11/2004
I'm taking a wild stab and assuming you still retain American citizenship? Are/can/have you voted?
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Re: voting?

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 03:06pm on 01/11/2004
I am indeed still an American. I sent off my absentee ballot several weeks ago. One advantage of being an Iowan voter is that it's inevitably a swing state, albeit one with a mere 7 electoral votes.
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posted by [identity profile] momiji.livejournal.com at 02:52pm on 01/11/2004
Thank you for posting this. I enjoyed Koimistress' entry. I hope more people feel like her and step out and vote this year.
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posted by [identity profile] snowdrifted.livejournal.com at 02:56pm on 01/11/2004
I remembered you asking about Jon Stewart on Thurs, and there's an article about his recent popularity here.
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posted by [identity profile] pittenweem.livejournal.com at 03:03pm on 01/11/2004
Yay JOn Stewart! Jon Stewart for President. No...seriously. ;-)
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 03:13pm on 01/11/2004
That was a useful, but strange article. I think it was written for people who know the late-night talk show scene better than I, and who have a strong sense of who Jon Stewart is - have seen a show or two - and want to know how it all fits together.

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.
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And on the lard front...

posted by [identity profile] suslikuk.livejournal.com at 11:25pm on 01/11/2004
How dare those upstart new EU member states make sausage out of rendered animal parts and expect to sell it to other EU members?

That's our job!

[Mmmm, "mechanically reclaimed meat" and offal tubes!]

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