• Hot Off The Presses

    Zimbabwe: Two views

    June 22, 2008 - By 

    The Chinese view: Zimbabwe police reaffirm zero tolerance to violence_English_Xinhua HARARE, June 22 (Xinhua) — Police in Zimbabwe have reaffirmed zero tolerance to violence before, after and during the June 27 presidential run-off elections, local media reported on Sunday. The Commissioner General of the Zimbabwe Republic Police, Augustine Chihuri, said the MDC-T party and its leadership are to blame for causing political violence in the country. Commissioner General Chihuri chronicled some of the incidents of political violence perpetrated by the MDC-T from the time of the launch of the opposition party’s campaign in Mutare. He said the force is intensifying…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Editorial: Run, MDC!

    June 21, 2008 - By 

    Editorial: A stolen victory would finally damn Mugabe | Comment is free | The Observer When Zimbabwe’s opposition party meets in Harare tomorrow, it faces the most critical decision of its nine-year existence. In the months leading up to this week’s presidential run-off election, the Movement for Democratic Change has seen supporters brutalised, raped and murdered. They can be sure that more lives will be lost before the polls close, so should they pull out of the race? Aborting the campaign may halt, at least temporarily, the bloodletting. It would also send a clear signal of protest against the manifest…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Firefox’s ScribeFire: Useful Blogging Plugin

    June 21, 2008 - By 

    I’ve discovered a useful Firefox plugin for blogging: ScribeFire. I’m currently checking to see what it can do, but so far about the only thing is that I can’t seem to find a way to do a mini-post. However, it’s got an option for bookmarking with Technorati Tags to del.icio.us. More playing is warranted. The slick thing is that it’s a graphical overlay that sits at the bottom of whatever webpage you invoke it on… and you can go from page to page to page, with the edit window open and useable. Rather handy for those kinds of posts where…

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    Obama’s War Chest Drives a 50-State Strategy – NYTimes.com

    June 21, 2008 - By 

    Obama’s War Chest Drives a 50-State Strategy – NYTimes.com Less than three weeks after securing the Democratic nomination, Mr. Obama is already dispatching paid staff members to all 50 states, an unusual move by the standards of modern presidential campaigns so often fought in just a contained group of contested territories. His aides and advisers said they did not believe Obama necessarily has a serious chance of winning in many of the traditionally Republican states, but rather that he can at least draw Mr. McCain into spending time and money there while also swelling the rolls of Democratic voters and…