lullaby pit

Errr, this isn’t good.

I think Thomas Friedman’s “Two Nations Under God,” from this morning’s NYT, stops a bit short. If an alien anthropologist from a planet that knew nothing about Earth landed and started interviewing us, he would be initially confused by the fact that (at least) two separate groups of people used the same terms – God, Jesus – to refer to

I’d take this over the method they used in 2000.

One of the campus pubs is doing a feature on me because I’m a new prof. Here’s the pic they’ll be running with the story:

—– Original Message —– From: Michael Moore Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 12:42 PM Subject: “One Day Left” by Michael Moore 11/1/04 Friends, This is it. ONE DAY LEFT. There are many things I’d like to say. I’ve been on the road getting out the vote for 51 straight days so I haven’t had much time to write. So I’ve

I’m not the only one who takes this seriously, looks like – see the Daedalnexus today on the question of intimidating the vote. Whether you think it’s as bad as Angliss does or not, there is a bottom line here. When your election strategy depends in part on undermining basic Constitutional principles, you don’t belong in office, you belong in

Picked this up via gibsonfeed – I mean, come on, if you’re gonna play me, you need to at least TRY….

Jeffrey Dean Foster wrote this morning to ask if I had some succinct words that might encourage people to get out, stand in line, and vote for Kerry. I don’t know that this is succinct, and it’s certainly nothing you haven’t heard from this quarter before, but I did spend a couple minutes pulling together an informal little summary. Honestly,

We’re halfway home, folks. Pay special attention to item #11.

I don’t know what this woman said about Bush to get the interest of the SS, but I can’t imagine she posted anything that’s worse than what I THINK on a daily basis. Still, it’s useful to know how these things sometimes work. Also, I will repeat – if I do not have a file with the Feds, I am

Yup. This about sums it up.

Wow. I’ve been saying for awhile that American conservatives should be opposed to what Bush is doing to their party, and that as odd as it sounds, the best hope for the future of the GOP is a Kerry win. Four more years of Bush might screw the Republican party for generations, if not permanently. This article by Scott McConnell

Last night ABC News, in its continuing coverage of Decision 2004®, showed us John Kerry out bird hunting with some folks in Ohio. Four geese “paid the ultimate price,” we were told, although it’s not clear whether Kerry was the trigger man in any of the deaths. The reason for the gandercide is that Kerry apparently feels he needs to

Nice little post-mortem from Alessandra Stanley….

You can put me down for that “direct election” option. Whatever else may be true, in our society there is simply no defensible rationale for “weighting” votes. All votes ought to count the same unless we come upon a strategy for excluding idiots from the process entirely. ______________________________________ David S. Broder / Syndicated columnist Electoral College alternatives deserve careful scrutiny