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Kenya violence escalates as poll results trickle in: Demonstrators loot shops and burn homes amid anger over slow returns -- This is not good. But (and not to disparage their situation) this goes to show (as well as the situation in Pakistan) that democracy is a grassroots movement and cannot be forcibly brought upon a people by the barrel of a gun.

America's Best Fiend: 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007 (found in ljdemocrats)

The Naked Face (thanks, pgdudda)

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Sunnyvale woman back from India has hard-to-treat case of TB -- Hope you didn't sit next to her on the flight.

You folks on the West Coast: Stores may have sold diseased birds

Edwards Pledges Ban on Lobbyists