Howard Johnsons on the Savanna! 
Wole Soyinka has called out former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying the Obasanjo Presidential Library is trying to scam UNESCO out of African artifacts.
Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate says Obasanjo doesn’t deserve the stuff.
“The man who named that library has no interest in culture. He takes pride in being uncultured.”
This seems harsh for a man whose Library can offer the following inspiring words:
“The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library is found on three props: Leadership, Transparancy and Agriculture. To strengthen his belief in the last cause, Presidential Obasanjo, him as an acclaimed farmer, plans to write a book on increasing food production in Africa.
These three policy thrusts guided President Obasanjo throughout his years of public life and allowed him to lead, achieve and create a vivid, lasting legacy that continues to shape and influence, form and guide the times in which we live right now.”
Hole Lot More? 
Just weeks from Southern Methodist University signing up for the George W. Bush Presidential Library, we learn that making the Bush magic won’t be as easy as it once appeared.
US News & World Report says reality may impinge on the fantasy world traditionally associated with Presidential Libraries.
“…family friends say coming up with the money won’t be easy. They fear that Bush’s unpopularity will put a damper on donations and that the sour economy will limit contributions even more. Then there is the matter of an endowment to keep the library going, which could cost an additional $50 million.”
Soft Soap 
In a Dallas Morning News Op/Ed, Joe Lieberman boldly plasters the future Bush Library hometown with stern calls for full disclosure of Presidential Library donors, and disclosure of the Library’s’ contents. But in classic Lieberman style he doesn’t call out the mysterious forces who might frustrate these goals.
Whoever might oppose sunlight’s legendary sanitary powers?
On cash it’s legendary money shuttler Ted Stevens of Alaska, who has blocked the bill in the Senate.
The murky enemies of the public access to Presidential documents are even more obscure in Lieberman’s telling. He blames “a 2001 executive order” [author unnamed] under which “the documents housed in these libraries can be kept secret in perpetuity.”
It is of course George Bush’s order, and blocking the Senate from voting on overturning it is Alabama’s Jeff Session, acting at the request of the White House.
With such toothless advocates the war is lost before it’s begun.
This Big 
President George W. Bush has chosen his Presidential Library site, if it holds, and architect, but you can still pick an alternative on the Chronicle of Higher Education website.
Our personal favorite is this handsome bunker. 
The sub-sections named after various Bush Administration scandals are kind of obvious, but the overall James Bond villain lair look is fab. 
The “Back-Of-The-Envelope Design contest” is open until March 20th.
