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We have gathered some of the top political writers in the country and asked them to discuss the presidential race throughout the year. Today they will discuss the Democratic race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Next Wednesday night San Francisco's Magic Bullets make a stop in Seattle at the High Dive. They've been touring the West Coast in support of their debut album, the awkwardly titled a CHILD but in life yet a DOCTOR in love, out earlier this year from Words on Music. The San Francisco Chronicle aptly summarized the music of Magic Bullets as drawing from "the emotional candor and jerky rhythms of the '80s post-punk era to carve a wistful but upbeat niche for itself in San Francisco's indie-pop scene." Which can be translated as: they catchy. For proof, check out the above video, Magic Bullets' cover of "I Could Be Happy" by Scottish new wave band Altered Images.

It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by poop. Finally D.C. contemplated taking Vermont's place as a state and marveled at the GOP lessons learned from the "Macaca Moment."

After Felix Hernandez' terrible eight-inning reign, the A's won't be contesting Jarrod Washburn's accession to the mound. What a performance--the best in Mariner opening day history, and one of the best in opening day history period.

Stanford coach Trent Johnson, not happy after Kenny Brown committed the ultimate bailout foul, hacking the Dawgs' Adrian Oliver as Oliver shot a desperation three with the shot clock at 1. Oliver hit all three free throws, giving Washington an eleven-point lead. The Huskies won 64-52 [Times], [P-I], [San Francisco Chronicle]

It was a one-night-only monologue, Mike Daisey's Stories from the Atlantic Night Cafe, and CHAC artistic director Matthew Kwatinetz was happily rearranging chairs for a packed house. Backstage, the program informed us, Daisey was taking an hour to scribble away on a yellow legal pad the outline for what would be a brand-new 90-minute-ish monologue, his delivery punctuated only by pauses as he sipped from a glass of water or glared at remembered insults and injuries.

Something's going on at TechCrunch, the website you and 18 kajillion other Web 2.0 fans have recently become slavishly addicted to. Are they reporting on where venture capital riches go over there, or are they directing it? It's open to questioning. Anyway, TechCrunch wonderboy-in-chief Michael Arrington is not exactly AWOL right now, but he's obviously taking it down a few notches and there's a new face picking up the slack in a decidedly journalist-y manner. Don't freak out and leave twenty "TechCrunch sucks now" comments on the site. Instead, go ski.

Maybe they're still thinking about it. Maybe they're waiting for more requests to come in. Maybe if you requested the same DVD (performer: Mary-Louise Parker; Release date: July 11, 2006), critical mass would be reached, and we could check it out of the library one of these days. At least with books, if they opt not to buy the title, they'll request it via interlibrary loan. At least then we know.

Torontoist visits the site of a new Frank Gehry structure, stalks "the elusive Bahamas streetcar", and watches Tom Green get surgery.

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it a few more times, just for fun? For example, SFist is sure the San Francisco Chronicle wishes they could blame server problems for this error. But this San Francisco man that appeared on "The Daily Show" is, sadly, no glitch in the system.

Our NoCal cousin, SFist recently posted briefly about a house party in Berkeley, CA that also broke out in violence this past weekend. The horribly ironic detail in this case? The person who was shot and killed was the father of three children, who was hosting the party at his family's own home, so he could ensure that his kids would be safe. His killer is still at large.

Today the website of the San Francisco Chronicle has a great article about the rise of environmental blogs that has lots of linky love and steered us to a few sites even we weren't aware of. It's a nice short piece and you should check it out and click on a bunch of links in it.

Monkeys are funny, puppies are cute, and ligers are totally awesome, but our favorite species is people. Our need for human interest stories is unquenchable, which is why we've been enthralled by the Seattle P-I this week.