For anyone who really wants to. I'm not going to force heavily emotional stuff on anyone.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/16/2252/67041/691/496616

My brother's is linked from there.

In happier news, today is already half over!

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In the days to come, the desire to say Obama is an elitist with Marxist tendencies will, thanks to the ever-inane ramblings of William "I can't believe I get paid to spew this shit" Kristol of the New York "We actually got away with hiring someone who doesn't give a shit about facts?" Times ( Read more... )

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As some of you might have picked up on lo this last month or so, I've taken to looking at various well-known (or not well-known) events in history and writing summat about 'em ( Read more... )

My article on Arthur Ashe (that's the link off which I make money based on ad sales) was resued at DKos. (For those unfamiliar, it means that a person who reads diaries looking for ones that didn't get much love decided mine was worthy of a second, highlighted look. About a dozen are chosen each day. Something more than a dozen are written each day ( Read more... )

Mark Penn is still with the Clinton campaign ( Read more... )

"Americans are worried about what will happen if we withdraw from Iraq and all hell breaks loose." - Tim Russert (paraphrased)

What if all hell breaks loose? Compared to the current civil war, which we started? How could it reasonably get worse for Iraq than the last five years have been?

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