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Please note: harder language than Crab Media's average in this post. Please be advised if such language is offensive to your sensibilities.

Crab Media has published a prior mezmur performance by Mirtinesh, making her appearance in this duet with Tiztaw. Since I don't know Amharic, and since it's hard enough to buy a copy of Mirtinesh's music let alone find lyrics (let alone in English), I would be grateful for commenters who know this music or know Amharic to comment here about this music with my thanks.

Washington Post, June 30, 2008:

Twenty thousand soccer fans are expected in the Washington area this week to watch teams of Ethiopians from the United States and Canada compete. The annual tournament has become one of the largest gatherings of Ethiopians outside their homeland.

In the recent Feller decision, the Supreme Court struck down a fairly long-standing gun ban in the District of Columbia, holding that the 2nd Amendment in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution protects an individual right to keep and bear arms of a sort in general common use.

We need a little more of this sort of thing. HAT TIP Americablog.com.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6081

I love Republicans. Really. They are perfect in their awfulness so reliably often.

Obama is not going to decapitate McCain. This video will decapitate him.

I have held off blogging on substance for a while. So much of my life seems claimed and counter-claimed by opposing forces looking to jam my time, steal it, scrape it, BS me out of an hour here and a half hour there for no good reason. I remain impatient that my apartment cannot easily accommodate my alternative lifestyle, to wit: present Daddy two days a week, quasi-half-assed bachelor nobody for the other twelve. But at least I am keeping it clean, orderly and safe for the little fellows.

Over at responsivedocuments.com, I have an excerpt of a Daily Record article on a privilege waiver by inadvertent or negligent document privilege review policies in a federal case in Baltimore. In short, sloppy rules and procedures for preventing an inadvertent release of privileged documents resulted in both the release of such documents and a ruling that the release effected a waiver of privilege, notwithstanding an attempt to allow a "clawback" of privileged material.

A great weekend with the boys left the apartment in a mild shambles. I am pleased to report that the Bissell EasyVac above does, in fact, suck. Precisely, it sucked every dustbunny off of my living room carpet, Ah, order.... Next stop: the stains from the chocolate chips....

Unrelated to anything except my general domestic spirit, I offer this recipe for a veggie sandwich:

One green or red bell pepper
One cucumber, medium size
One large tomato
2 or 3 habanero peppers optional, size of a pinball, maybe two-thirds the diameter of a golf ball

The London Guardian/Observer, May 11, 2008 (HAT TIP 3 Quarks Daily):

For Abdel-Qader Ali there is only one regret: that he did not kill his daughter at birth. 'If I had realised then what she would become, I would have killed her the instant her mother delivered her,' he said with no trace of remorse.

If anybody suggests that you should have a "Happy Memorial Day," ask him or her what's so happy about dead U.S. soldiers. If a southerner wishes it to you, tell him or her that you do not find the historical reality of Confederate unlawful combatants shooting U.S. soldiers in the face and killing them "happy." Then ask him or her what should happen to people who kill U.S. soldiers. My answer: they should not get parks, highways, schools, colleges, etc., named in their honor, unless we are ready to make way for "Tariq Aziz Boulevard" in Cleveland and "Mullah Muhammed Omar Junior High" in Biloxi.

Emerita's Mexican and Salvadoran Cuisine, 5408 Queens Chapel Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, 301-559-7400.

Truly long-time readers of this blog may recall that it has been at times sharply critical of Markos Moulitsas, aka "Kos" of Daily Kos. Now is not the time to rehash and reminisce about petty blog sniping of now one year's aging. On certain matters, however, this blog absolutely defers to Kos, to wit: issues involving Salvadoran cuisine. Kos is of Salvadoran heritage and lived there; I am not and have not. A few weeks ago, Kos urged readers to go to Salvadoran restaurants and try out pupusas if they had not had them before. I decided to take Kos up on his suggestion.