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Beloved 1988 Dem nominee Michael Dukakis was such a crappy candidate that he lost to despised vice president George Bush, so now he’s warning America that the Republicans will still figure out a way to keep the White House beyond 2008, even though everybody hates the Republicans and all the GOP candidates and especially Bush Junior and Dick Cheney. MORE »

Of Northeastern University, that is. Yesterday we passed along the rumor that Gore was on the shortlist for the presidency of Northeastern. But it now seems that they’ve given the job to a linguist with more vowels in his last name. MORE »

Our second to last Wonk’d of the slow season. Please keep collecting the lamest excuses for “famous” that you can — and remember, we’re including famous-for-DC outside of DC — and send them to . In this issue, an actually rather impressive-for-August number of sightings of famous-for-DC, including lots of generals (Clark, Meyers, McCaffrey), George Will hyping and diving, Tucker Carlson at McDonald’s, Leahy, Dukakis, Coulter, Baldridge, Koppel, Chertoff, Woodruff, Kerry, McClellan, Pennington, Clinton, Obama, King, Sharpton, Gannon, Hunt.

They’re all after the jump.

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