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Well color us a little embarrassed. But only a little. After Matt Yglesias linked to our post complaining about how D.C., along with a handful of other states, had been left out of the state-specific shirts available at store.barackobama.com, a commenter at his site pointed out that he had found the correct url to order a "District of Columbia for Obama" T-shirt through a little legwork -- just finessing the url until he stumbled upon the right one. The shirt still isn't included on the main state shirt page of the Obama online store, however. Should we have been able to figure out that it was hidden there all along? Perhaps. Should we have had to? At the very least, it's sloppy web design.

Now that the Democratic party has a presumptive nominee, some District residents, who overwhelmingly support Sen. Barack Obama anyway, might be in the market for an Obama T-shirt -- and they're in luck. The Obama campaign wisely has a number of such T-shirts available for sale at its online store, including state-specific shirts. The only problem? A friend recently pointed out that there is no "D.C. for Obama" T-shirt available for sale, even though Guam and Puerto Rico seemed to merit their own shirts. The outrage!

With The West Wing in the off season, there aren't any melodramas dedicated to D.C. on the horizon. No big deal really, since we prefer the escapism provided by shows set in more affluent environs like The O.C. It's really just nostalgia for the days of 90210 coupled with wishes that a club like the Bait Shop existed when we were in high school. We wonder what such excitement would be like in the District....