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“Another thought provoking digby post”:http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/its-not-freedom-by-digby-rick-perlstein.html:
By methodically undermining the public’s will and ability to underwrite the public good, systematically accelerating economic inequality, and making turning oneself into a commodity - “selling out” - the only possible route for young people who wish a reasonably secure middle class existence, conservatives killed liberty.

In addition to catching up on some algorithm analysis, I’ve also been spending a good chunk of time this election evening following political threads, mostly focusing on this “mefi thread”:http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56114 for my refresh action.
The biggest nailbiter race, and the one in which I have the most emotional investment, however superificial, is the Virginia race [...]

Keith Olberman tells it like it is. Absofsckinglutely hitting the nail on the motherfscking head.

Excellent forest for the trees essay on the American state of fear.

When physics and politics collide, hilarity, in-jokes and the cosmological nerdfest ensue.

Cf. the O’Reilly Web 2.0 kerfuffle.

South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection.

Whiny kids tend to become Conservative Stick-In-The-Muds. Confident well-grounded kids tend to be Liberal Non-conformists.

The day “Coretta Scott King dies”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5180053 is the same day “Samuel Alito”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito is confirmed to the Supreme Court. The sad irony of this juxtaposition would be too much to bear if we did not already suffer from outrage fatigue. This is par for the course.
How would the Civil Rights movement have fared if Alito [...]

Yeah, it’s Daily Kos. But goddamn that’s a good rant.

My sarcasm meter just imploded and my irony detector is still in the shop.

The Urban Archipelago: An urban vs. rural rehash. In short: fuck hicksville, we’re going it alone. My rational side says this is short-sided, vindictive and counterproductive. My visceral Id screams fuck yeah at the top of its lungs.

The election is over, the American public has voted, and we are getting the president we deserve. On the other hand, this sums it up quite nicely.

Abortions have increased during the Bush presidency. Let the right-wing cognitive dissonance commence.

What does this tell us? Economic policy and abortion are not separate issues; they form one moral imperative. Rhetoric is hollow, mere tinkling brass, without health care, health insurance, jobs, child care, and a living wage. Pro-life in deed, not merely in word, [...]

The Lonestart Iconoclast, Bush’s hometown paper, endorses John Kerry for president. I’m not sure how many papers Crawford, Texas actually has, but I was gobsmacked that their editorial board had the guts to print this in Bush country. Their arguments about why this president does not deserve a second term are lucid, cogent and rational, [...]

There are more than enough reasons to deny George Bush a second term. This however is the most important reason, the repercussions of which will echo and be felt for a very long time. For this reason alone, this is easily the most important election of my lifetime.