So Congress is finally considering removing Nelson Mandela and the ANC from its list of terrorists and terrorist organizations.

It's nice to see just how well maintained the government's no-fly lists are, considering that the current administration is putting more weight on them (while making their operations less transparent).

Nobody can design a get out the vote effort like Robert Mugabe. Unfortunately this time it looks like he forgot to send out his enthusiastic armed teams of thugs^H^H^H^H^Hparty workers to threaten^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hencourage Zimbabweans to vote for him and the ZANU-PF.

But it's not too early to get a head start on drumming up support for the next election.

There were rumors floating around last week that Mugabe was in private talks with the MDC to quietly leave office. Considering all the heat he's under, and his age, that would certainly seem to be a reasonable option. I was never completely convinced that he'd do such a thing, though. He's way too much of a firebrand to just quietly walk away. And now, with his supporters running amok again while the electoral commission continues to delay releasing any presidential vote results, any chances that he might be using this election as an opportunity to retire gracefully are fading very fast.

Also- late last week, there were reports that ZANU-PF "war veterans" were occupying white farms again. Are there actually very many white farmers left in Zimbabwe?