i've known that southern sudan's referendum on independence will be on january 9, 2011 for a while. it was only this afternoon that i realized that day is a sunday.
i can't help but wonder if that isn't some last ditch lame-ass effort to keep southern sudanese christians from voting for independence. it won't work (that's what makes it lame-ass), but maybe it seemed like it might when they negotiated the naivasha agreement six years ago.
