What the heck, we’re all waiting on tenterhooks for Barack Obama to announce his running mate (I know I can hardly stand the suspense), so here’s an open thread for predictions, venting, and persiflage.

P.S. You may notice I’ve rounded off the corners on a lot of our boxes and widgets, if you’re using Safari or Firefox. If you’re still on the Internet Explorer mainline, you’re stuck in Squaresville until Gates catches up with CSS 3.

UPDATE at 8/22/08 5:25:21 pm:

If you browse to a page at the official Obama site that doesn’t exist (for example, this one), you get a wonderful logo that could serve as the metaphor for Barack Obama’s whole foreign policy:

Notice that the magnifying glass is trained on the American flag part of Obama’s logo. Rich with symbolism.

UPDATE at 8/22/08 5:28:17 pm:

On Fox News, Laura Ingraham just announced that a private plane has landed in Delaware and there’s activity at the home of Joe Biden.