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…ain’t just that long green strip cutting through the desert of northern Africa on Google Earth. As demonstrated by this survey widget from cleveland.com:

I think they left out one or two important options. Like, say, the bogeyman. Or the ghost of Saddam Hussein. Or perhaps the Jews, never overlook them.

And what about China, where are they? I suppose that including “China” as an option might veer too close to part of an actually plausible explanation, though, i.e. an increasing disparity between the dwindling supply of a finite resource and growing demand for said resource from rapidly-developing economies increasingly capable of backing up that demand with cash on the international oil market.

Nah, I’m just kiddin’ of course; that couldn’t have anything to do with it. Anyway, who is to blame for these rising gas prices, someone must be behind it all.

(As atrocious as the state of what passes for modern journalism is, I think it’s even more depressing that I basically predicted this exact fantasy with appalling accuracy three months ago. I suppose maybe the answer which really needs to be added to the choices is “the mainstreaming of willfully-ignorant, infantile know-nothingism in America…”)

contrary to polls that show georgia remaining solid red this year, fivethirtyeight.com has analysis of registration and early voting figures that actually suggest a potential obama lead on the strength of black votes.

Think these numbers sound unreasonable? Early voting is underway in Georgia, and according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, black voters do not represent 30 percent of Georgia’s early voter turnout. Instead, they represent almost 40 percent. Although early voting figures can be idiosyncratic, Barack Obama certainly seems to be having little trouble getting his vote out. Indeed, Barack Obama is winning Georgia right now.

d’you buy that?

i got just want i wanted for my birthday: john mccain strapping on his bib and tucking into a big ol’ bowl of shit. today’s q-poll shows huge leads for obama in OH, FL and PA. the rest of us were playing it cool last week, but it looks like gray’s instinct was dead-on.

debate-night pundit commentary notwithstanding, viewers saw obama as the winner by a wide margin, and this week’s polling bears that out, along with reflecting voters’ apparent disgust with mccain’s “suspension” stunt. (the letterman thing probably didn’t help either.) it’s hard to see how the biden-palin debate reverses that dynamic. and don’t forget, voters still have two more opportunities to see mccain, cranky and up past his bedtime, behave like a petulant child as obama debates circles around him.

34 days to go. tick-tock…