Bill Quick at Daily Pundit has the latest on Zimbabwe's Dictator-Till-Death, Robert Mugabe. His country's totally in the crapper, and what does Mugabe do? Buy fighter jets from the Chinese.

Bill Hobbs digs up a weird one: John Kerry's campaign is blogging about Reagan, and has posted a photo of the Gipper with Ray Charles, who also passed away recently. Desperate to regain relevance, I guess.

Education writer and edublogger Joanne Jacobs reports on a study that found high school exit exams are actually measuring 9th and 10th grade competencies. Another nugget: in some other countries, the math skills on our graduation tests are actually taught in middle school.

Why did the chicken cross the road? Ask that question in Iraq, and you get a whole lotta different answers. From Strategy Page, via Dean Esmay.

Jake, at his very cool blog, Smack My Booty, has this indispensable link to Bible Sex Stories (Director's Cut).

Jeff Norris has started GeoPoliticalReview, a data-rich site well worth your time. Here's one of his recent, link-filled "Must Read" posts.

Harvard alum Spartacus attended the commencement speech Thursday by Kofi Annan and in this excellent report, talks about what he liked and what he didn't. One high point was Annan's strong condemnation of ethnic cleansing against Sudanese black Muslims by the murderous and incorrigible Arab Muslim regime that's been running the country into the ground (literally) for 20 years. Altho, as Spart notes, Annan's call for the "international community" to take action is worthless. In the same post, Spart also reports on Harvard President Larry Summers' moving and sincere tribute to recent Harvard alums serving or wounded in Iraq, and to the importance of ROTC on the Harvard campus (!)

You come across some real characters in the ongoing hunt for sympatico blogsouls. One is Rob, at Gut Rumbles, which he describes as "Humorous Observations, Vitriolic Rants and a Ceaseless Quest for Adoration From People Who Don't Know Me." He's a Randian Libertarian pigmenteer from Rincon, Georgia who plays guitar, mandolin and autoharp, and really likes the music of John Prine. He's also remarkably forthcoming about his foot fetish, AND a costly fake critter called Preble's Mouse. Fresh from a trip to Folly Beach, SC, he's headed for Key West, and soon Costa Rica. Look out, world! And have a mojito for me, bro.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at June 12, 2004 07:00 AM

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