What do you get if you don't just deliver 25 electoral votes to a presidential candidate but the 25 CRITICAL ELECTORAL VOTES? Not only do you can an ambassadorship. If you play your cards-- and a few other things-- right you also get a few extra perks. That darling of the Revlon set (motto: It is impossible to have too much eyeliner on), Ms. Katherine Harris, as we all know, did with exemplary Republican sangfroid deliver Florida's 25 electoral votes to Dubya. And we have it on good inside-the-beltway authority that Ms. Harris will shortly be appointed (by Dubya-- who else?) as the nation's new ambassador to Chad (where else?-- just a little inside joke on the part of the ever-witty G.O.P.). Nfubi Kwaadutu, our man in Chad [Click here to read his reports on the state of Chadian affairs], has in fact provided us with hard evidence of this breaking story. According to Nfubi, the hot street talk in N'Djamena, the capital of the Republic of Chad, is that somebody just paid top dollar for the old Idi Amin mansion on the outskirts of town (Idi, it seems, used the place as a get-away when Ugandan politics heated up), which had stood deserted for some years. N'Djamenians could hardly fail to note the endless series of Home Depot 747's landing at N'Djamena Airport, unloading tons of renovation materials for the neglected mansion. An enterprising reporter for the N'Djamena Green Sheet tracked the bills of lading backward and discovered that they were in fact all being paid from a P.O. box in Crawford, Texas. Nfubi rushed to the N'Djamena Wal-Mart, purchased a Fuji disposable camera, took a taxi to the outskirts of the city and proceeded to photograph the structure for us. He even managed to talk his way inside and take some interior shots. Who needs Architectural Digest when you've got Magellan's Log on the scene of cutting-edge interior design!!! Click here to see our world scoop
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