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You can have your own genuine Australian Kenyan birth certificate.
Via Newshoggers.

I think it would be awesome for Andrew Sullivan if all the documents end up proving that Barack Obama is Trig Palin’s father.

By Thoreau
If the driving force behind the birther movement is conspiracy theory, the belief that anything you don’t like is the product of sinister forces with the power to do anything and fool the world about it, then allow me to posit my own conspiracy theory:
With all the attention that the birthers are getting, with [...]

By Thoreau
I was spying on Urkobold and learned that they have intelligence on the impending end of the world (not that they would stoop to share it with us fiziks types). It seems that the Japanese are building a giant robot that can actually walk. No lie.
Have they learned nothing from cartoons? [...]

What we see in yesterday’s Outside the Beltway comment thread is a lengthy discussion on US troop levels and withdrawal time lines for Iraq in which no one, not the original LAT editorialist nor the blog-entry author, nor the commenters, whether “liberal” or “conservative,” makes even the slightest acknowledgement that there is a formal Status [...]

Kevin Drum on California’s overcrowded prisons. His description a few weeks ago of the state as “a penal colony with a nice coastline” really struck me. Nor does it apply to just California, as his final chart makes clear.