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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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The blogging revolution and its pitfalls in South Korea: Some have said one of Roh’s biggest problems is that he’s got his head buried in the internet. You know, instead of just governing without constantly trying to be best buddies with The Netizens all the time. I wonder if he is going to be able to sleep at night without wondering what kind of comments he’s been getting. (He’s been known to leave a few himself here and there.)

To be honest, I fail to understand the problem with Robert Hockett, and fail to understand the lack of a problem with Bill Janklow.

How the House Ethics Committee is spending its time

“As far as I am concerned, there is no House Ethics Committee,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group that tracks government ethics. “It hasn’t been operational in a year. That’s the way Republicans and Democrats want it.”

“They might as well disband and stop pretending to have an ethics committee,” said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics. “They are a disgrace. Hastings should be embarrassed. Democrats have done a bad job. No one is interested in ethics enforcement.”

Vetoing Laws you just signed.

Dubya is no Washington. No duh.

Why the History Professor pretended to be a neo-nazi.

Isn’t this just a somewhat more extreme version of what happens to most American teenagers at some point in their adolescence?

What went wrong with Reconstruction: Grant was apparently given to vulgar racial talk in private life, but it’s reasonable to assume that African-Americans preferred a president who called them ugly names but crushed the Klan to the many who followed, who said polite things about “the Negro” but tolerated vicious regimes of white supremacy and racist violence.

No politics in the pub. And don’t use “New Republic” as the liberal magazine, please.

The Historical Failure of Congress.

The collegiate effects of “Intelligent Design”

Skull and Bones Apron.

The Economist, on The New Paranoid Style of American Politics and since they don’t web-publish their articles for free by way of Usenet, on The New Paranoid Style of American Politics… for until the 14th, at least.

A good LaRouche question. There’s probably a class they have to take on socratic handwriting, scheduled right between Anti-semitic Raving 102 and How The Queen of England Deals Drugs 301.

From June: the case against Doc Hastings’s ethics

Weekly Standard’s William Kristol Why won’t George Bush peddle our crap on Osama Sadam?

Why the Religious Right Loves the Imperial Presidency

Seeking Pardon for old WWI seditionist.

The Colbert Report on Jack Abramoff and Versus Conan O’Brien

Who’s Miller?

The current scoop on DeLay: the cat-fight between DeLay and Bush Administration. (“Blue collar” is an insult?) [also hilarious: the comment section of the Bernie Sanders post, which sees 2 Republicans hewing and hawing over the idea that a self-described Socialist will win a Senate seat.]

Raed’s barber now has a blog. Sheesh.

a curious look at the New York Democratic Primary for Senate.

a list of Bad People. (#8: Eisenhower. For presiding over the 1950s.)

The LaRouchite nominee Watch: We have one in Kentucky!.

More than one way to skin a cat.

Lewinsky used to stop pressure on Israel to withdraw from West Bank. And my gawd, a Jerry Falwell — Benjamin Netanyahu alliance is frightening.

Good Luck in battling this regime.