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I think I've cut my typo rate down a full .08 percent. Woo-hoo! (I maintain the typographical errors as some sort of charming artfulness.)

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What the war party bloggers have done is recreate the experience of being a child in World War II.

Dick Cheney’s Notes on the Joe Wilson Op-Ed

Al Gore on Saturday Night Live: Right now, in the 2nd week of May 2006, we are facing perhaps the worst gas crisis in history. We have way too much gasoline. Gas is down to $0.19 a gallon and the oil companies are hurting. I know that I am partly to blame by insisting that cars run on trash. I am therefore proposing a federal bailout to our oil companies because- hey if it were the other way around, you know the oil companies would help us.

Billmon Rants on the Tyranny of the… um… Plurality, and it’s meaningless with regards to Civil Liberties issues.

I point to this situation with Nebraska, and most importantly this quote: If the Republicans defeat Nelson, they virtually kill the current incarnation of the Nebraska Democratic Party. Nelson will win, but everything leading up to that and leading away suggests the sorry shape of the Nebraska Democratic Party, and moreover why Dean is correct and Begala is incorrect in their assessment on where the Democratic Party must proceed.

Fox News’s other Bias: Any story that gives you an excuse to show scantily clad women.

Even if Bush’s approval ratings are low, Big Brother’s approval ratings are High.

Dynasticism. One problem is that the whole of the United States is populated with regional Dynasties — the obvious example being the Kennedys, which counter-acts his Harrison explanation.

The Case Against the Dalai Lama

Sophie Scholl and Germany’s Resistance Movement circa 1943.

How do you speak when you have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses?: A case study suggests Noam Chomsky is Wrong.

James Webb and the Confederate Issue. I said much the same thing in this sidebar section a day or two ago. Though my ambivalence remains. I’ll give Webb this much: he’s an interesting candidate, and assuredly human — more than can be said about a lot of politicos. The comments section is worth pursuing for some decent back and forth.

Ray McGovern for CIA Chief: I like it. But now we leave Fantasy-land and enjoy Reality.

Dick Tracy and the War on Terror

“If George Orwell was alive today, I’m sure he would be a regular blogger on cyberspace.” We’re all in good company, folks!

Portents of the Immediate Future.

Horror of Horrors: The Constitution Party (ie: “Christian Reconstruction Party”)’s Big Tent on the Abortion Issue.

Jack T Chick Unveils new — er — “Urban Line” of tracts. Lordy, Lordy, Lordy.

Four Dead in O-Hi-O.

President Carter’s, Clinton’s, and Bush’s “Best Moment of the Presidency”: Carter: “Camp David Peace Accord”, Clinton Rambles About and covers a bunch of ground; Bush: “I caught a Fish!” Unfortunately, this being a bit too partisan a site, we don’t get Ford’s or Bush I’s or for that matter anyone else’s answer here.

Chuck Hagel, ladies and gentlemen. With an American Conservatives Union rating of 96%.

The Case against Intervening in Darfur: The fighting in Darfur is not a conflict of good guy versus bad guy. It is bad guy versus bad guy. Both sides are armed. Both sides have committed atrocities. Both sides show as much sympathy and mercy for the other as a rattlesnake does for a mouse.

It is not a conflict of white versus black. Both sides are black. It is not a Muslim-versus-Christian conflict. Both sides are Muslim. It might have even started the way the old range wars started in Wyoming in the 19th century. One side is nomadic herdsmen; the other side is farmers. When farmers try to keep herds from grass and water, there is sure to be gunfire, whether in Sudan or in 19th-century Wyoming.

In all fairness, if there’s going to be a race with Confederate versus Confederate, Virginia would have to be that place. But I do smirk at George Allen being a Confederate lover from outside the Goddamned South!!

Earl Blumenauer on The Colbert Report. Doc Hastings should be a curious subject.

Ray McGovern interviewed by Amy Goodman on the Rumsfeld Joust.

Personal Recollections of the dawn of Political Conciousness

George Allen: Bush II, or is it III, a Primer for the uninitiated: But what is most puzzling about Allen’s interest in the old Confederacy is that he didn’t grow up in the South.

Brian Schweitzer Pardons WWI Seditionists.

“In fact, the other member of Congress who votes most closely to Congressman Ron Paul is none other than Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.” To be sure, Ron Paul is an interesting casoid, and to be sure a Democratic Congress would be preferable to a Republican Congress, and to be sure a Congress full of Ron Pauls would be a nightmare, and to be sure, a congress without a few Ron Pauls would be a lesser place.

What the world needs now is someone to post up a list of endorsements endorsing all of a party’s slate of candidates.

Whitey.

The upcoming Fall of the Internet.

A critical turning point in Cabin Boy, such that it has any plot at all.

Good Luck in battling this regime.