This is going to be a brief diary, but I wanted to let Atlantans (and Georgians, generally) know that there will be a bar crawl in the Virginia Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta on July 12 to raise money for Senator Obama's campaign.

Update: I've put this off for 24 hours because I was pretty demoralized by the whole thing (and I doubt anyone checks this old diary), but Curtis Osborne was executed Tuesday despite strong evidence that he received an inadequate defense by a negligent, racist attorney. The only comment I'm going to make is that I found Governor Sonny Perdue's office to be unhelpful, dishonest, ignorant, unprofessional, and impolite when I called them to ask the Governor to consider the issue (they said he would not and should not and that they would not ask him to).

I know everyone's focused on Obama's victory tonight (and rightly so), but please take a moment to read this diary and the Slate story it links to. This is important and urgent.

Slate's Andrew Berlow has written an article detailing the scheduled execution by the State of Georgia tomorrow night of convicted murderer Curtis Osborne.

Not that it makes any difference to anyone here, but George Orwell (Eric Blair) has always been one of my heroes. I'd hang his picture in my office.

Orwell wrote about what he believed in and he fought for what he wrote about, in his novels, in his memoirs, and in his countless essays. His life reflected his art and vice versa.

Do I understand the irony of a member of the Bush administration hanging a poster of the man who brought us 1984? Of course I do. But the fact is there is no single person I would rather have an Attorney General look up to than George Orwell. The man embodies everything I would like to see an Attorney General aspire to. I'll explain briefly below.

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I spent a lot of time online today, way more than usual, and I couldn't help but notice the disproportionate amount of coverage given to boring national news around here.

So I decided to dig around, like a good journalist, and come up with some real good stuff that didn't make the national headlines. I'm tired of all the same old, tired, "AG Obstructed Justice" Gonzales crap. I know, I know, he's a lawyer and lawyers are a big deal, but seriously, who cares? It's just a personnel matter.

So I did some research and found some stuff that I haven't seen reported at all in the MSM that you WILL NOT BELIEVE.

Read on for details.

I've been largely absent from DKos for the last several months due to life-related issues. I meant to post something on this article from the Washington Post last month, but I couldn't find the time. There have been diaries on the subject (from Phoenix Woman, from MQAblog, and from bearhug, for instance), but all of them predate the Post article linked above, and there has been a striking lack of discussion of this issue here on DKos (the 3 diaries linked above netted a total of 32 comments).

For those of you who do not know what happened, Sandy Berger (Clinton's National Security Advisor) admitted, after initially denying all charges, to removing copies of documents from the National Archive in the leg of his pants during the run-up to his testimony to the 9/11 Commission. He also admitted to stashing these papers at a construction site, retrieving them later, and destroying some of them.

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Reuters is reporting that Condoleezza Rice is in polyamorous love with the entire crew of Fox News correspondents.

In comments overheard on an open microphone between morning television interviews, including one with Fox, the top U.S. diplomat said: "My Fox guys, I love every single one of them."

She also apparently thinks Harry Smith of the CBS Early Show is a decent enough guy.

I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That's what happened in the -- after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I've earned capital in this election -- and I'm going to spend it for what I told the people I'd spend it on...

That is one promise that this president has kept. If his goal was to spend his political capital, then Mission Accomplished.

The government revived efforts Monday to widen access to the morning-after pill, but only to women 18 and older

I'm glad we're still (hopefully) moving toward easier access to the morning after pill, but why on earth put in the age restriction? The stated reason, from the CNN story, is (emphasis added):

Barr must agree to sell nonprescription to women 18 and older, not 16 as the company had earlier sought. That's because it conforms with current age restrictions on tobacco products, and thus would simplify pharmacists' enforcement.

That makes no sense to me. (More below...)

I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house.
I don't know why. I call him Gerald.
He's getting rather old, but hes a good mouse.

I think what I like about that line is the "I don't know why" of it.  

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