Category Archives: Democrats

Failure to Lead

Couple of links to good commentary on the election. Continue reading

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This Place is So Broken

Calls for civility miss the plot. Continue reading

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Moyers Interviews Greenwald

Moyers Interviews Greenwald. Continue reading

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Cheating

Oops. Had a pretty crappy day yesterday. Forgot to post a link. So I’m backdating this picture of my super good-looking kid and cheating. Hopefully will find time to do a real entry (link) for today later on this evening.

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A Few Links

A few links, since I can’t seem to properly blog at all anymore. Scott Rosenberg’s book on the history of blogging, Say Everything, will be released shortly. A couple of chapters are already available online. I read the chapter on … Continue reading

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State Secrets

For awhile there all I did was scoff at the punditocracy during the first few weeks of the Obama Administration when they tried to assert that he and Bush were “just the same”. Well, let’s be real, I scoff at … Continue reading

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Some Quick Hits

A few quick hits: A few weeks ago a buddy of mine asked me if I would contribute to a fledgling ‘mom blog’ she and a friend were creating. I said sure – how hard is it to do one … Continue reading

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Tab Dump

Well, I didn’t manage to finish off NaBloPoMo very well. Oh well. Here’s a few things clogging up my browser tabs at the moment: Ten Myths Conservatives Believe about Progressives. And how to rebut them at the dinner table. Climate … Continue reading

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Still Stunned

I am still stunned that after nearly electing George W. Bush twice, this country has elected Barack Obama. Happy about it, but stunned. There is loads of commentary around the web – much more eloquent than anything I could come … Continue reading

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Fired Up! Ready to Go!

Barack Obama was in Manassas, Virginia last night. (Making Light notes the historical symmetry of that.) We didn’t go, but there are reports that about 90,000 people showed up. Here’s a clip of the end of his speech there: Speaking … Continue reading

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