links for 2008-01-16
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“With Obama we have a black politician who is not at the ready for a photo-op with Michael Jackson trying to convince us he is the victim of a racist court system…we have the first truly multiethnic, multiracial, multilingual US American leader.”
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“The spread of syphilis across the globe was probably sparked by Christopher Columbus and his crew, who ferried the bacterium, or a version of it, from the New World to the Old World, according to a new genetic analysis published Monday.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
heabadman wrote:
Syphilis Columbus won’t be put in history books, but technically that’s how he would’ve said his name, right?…
Posted 17 Jan 2008 at 5:00 pm ¶