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via metafilter.

Oppodepot.com is an “opposition research 2.0″ website. It has dirt on most of the presidential candidates. It is a little sparse right now, but with its 2.0 focus, look for it to provide up-to-the-second access to all the latest baseless allegations, innuendos, and bullshit people can dig up (or think up???).

It has a certain train-wreck charm, but how helpful will this be?

… but it is happening there too!

“Mecca is becoming like Las Vegas, and that is a disaster,” said Ali al- Ahmed, director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs in Washington, a Saudi opposition research organization. “It will have a disastrous effect on Muslims because going to Mecca will have no feeling. There is no charm anymore. All you see is glass and cement.”