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Convention and John Kerry

Why wasn't Senator Kerry this good on his own behalf in 2004? 

Aftermath

Acrimony and recrimination fill the air and spent shell cases litter the ground.  But now that the traditional democratic firing squad has formed (always in the shape of a circle, for some reason), we have to go about the business of washing the ashen taste of bitter defeat from our mouths.

The first step is to assess what went wrong. Teeming droves of commentators have spent the week spilling much ink on such matters as whether we hate our neighbors; whether we must secede; whether they must secede; whether the rapture will return our country to normal, or whether it isn’t as big a deal as it seems. Of all the competing analyses, I think a few are very cogent and point towards next steps.

Election

Whiskey

Tango

Foxtrot,

America?

Kung-Fu Grip

Now he really is the best President money can buy. The Dick Cheney figure is available but ships from an undisclosed location. Via Metafilter.

Speaking in Toungues

A short essay on the high jacking of Southern Baptists by fundamentalists, and how this creates some of the most unusual alliances in politics today - between Christian Conservatives and robber barons, and with a president who speaks a hidden shibboleth to one of the fastest growing religious and political organizations on earth. Via the ever post-full Metafilter.

War Is Peace: a Tonic

Here are two Orwell related resources to help cut the taste of double speak that the adminsitration continues to feed us. The first site offers the biography and online versions of a number of his works. The second, summaries of some of the works that will probably creep into many a high-school English assignment. Such, Such were the joys...