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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Oliver Burkeman

Monday miscellany

A DailyKos diarist speculates, a little wishfully, that John McCain might be wanting to quit -- except that the media won't let him. [DailyKos]

That much-circulated email from an army officer, about how Obama snubbed the troops while visiting Afghanistan was, er, "factually incorrect". [Army Times]

Are you an Obama supporter? Are you looking for love? Are you OK with using a dating website that can't even spell its own name on its own front page? Then Supports Obama And Single is for you. Of course, if you're of a different persuasion, you'll be wanting the timelessly hilarious Hannidate, where fans of conservative pundit Sean Hannity go to find romance and sputter crossly about the liberal media. [Wonkette]

Obama wins, McCain loses -- at least when it comes to merchandise sales. [AFP]

Recalling the most surreal days of anti-Bill-Clinton nonsense, conspiracy theorists circulate an Obama Death List, detailing numerous unexplained murders to which the candidate is purportedly connected. Almost nobody on the list seems ever to have actually existed in the first place, of course, but then maybe that's all part of the conspiracy. Or something. [Sadly, No!]

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