Immediately after Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich announced his appointee to Obama’s ex-Senate seat, bam! Obama comes out in favor of principle: whoever Blagojevich might or might not have appointed, Obama is adamantly in favor of the Senate Democrat decision to reject “any” appointment by Blagojevic. I live right next to New Jersey, and even I can smell the corruption. (And I say that as proud ex-New Jersean.)

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Posts will increase soon (as per a New Year’s Resolution), but in the meantime, here’s a photo that touched me in almost a religious sort of way. (Just realized that Yahoo’s photo links don’t work consistently. So, to spoil the surprise, it’s the photo of the flattened Gaza mosque.)