Clever, or harmful?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/books/review/Bellafante-t.html

I had pants on when I came in, right?

http://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/really-its-the-booze-talking/

It's almost over

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/101904.html

American women, Saudi women

http://jezebel.com/5111365/what-american-women-can-and-cannot-do

http://americanbedu.com/2008/12/15/what-saudi-women-can-and-cannot-do/

A kinder, gentler nation

http://gawker.com/5110161/adorable-vp-adopts-adorable-puppy

It's all over but the shouting

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/11/powell-gop-polarization-backfired-in-election/

oh boy

http://jezebel.com/5106308/abortion-opponents-attack-planned-parenthoods-piggybank

an issue of our time

http://www.amazon.com/How-Break-Terrorist-Interrogators-Brutality/dp/1416573151/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228796731&sr=8-1

To be fair, I haven't read it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/dec/04/twilight-film-vampire

I don't want a diamond. Anything. Ever.

"I think the most depressing part of this advertising blitz around every gift-giving opportunity is that a lot of people live their lives in this way, where women’s compliance is bought off by a false pretense that women have power and a lot of shiny baubles."

http://jezebel.com/5103700/around-the-holidays--diamonds-are-a-girls-most-annoying-friend

http://www.freshyarn.com/1/essays/soloway_diamonds.htm

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/198202/diamond

Amen

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/opinion/06ayers.html?em

This looks really good.

http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Be-Frightened-Julian-Barnes/dp/0307269639/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228536794&sr=8-1

"Bumper stickers and fridge magnets remind us that Life Is Not a Rehearsal. We encourage one another towards the secular modern heaven of self-fulfillment: the development of the personality, the relationships which help define us, the status-giving job, the material goods, the ownership of property, the foreign holidays, the acquisition of savings, the accumulation of sexual exploits, the visits to the gym, the consumption of culture. It all adds up to happiness, doesn't it -- doesn't it? This is our chosen myth, and almost as much of a delusion as the myth that insisted on fulfillment and rapture when the last trump sounded and the graves were flung open, when the healed and perfected souls joined in the community of saints and angels. But if life is viewed as a rehearsal, or a preparation, or an anteroom, or whichever metaphor we choose, but at any rate as something contingent, something dependent on a greater reality elsewhere, then it becomes at the same time less valuable and more serious. Those parts of the world where religion has drained away and there is a general acknowledgment that this short stretch of time is all we have, are not, on the whole, more serious places than those where heads are still jerked by the cathedral's bell or the minaret's muezzin. On the whole, they yield to a frenetic materialism; although the ingenious human animal is well capable of constructing civilizations where religion coexists with frenetic materialism (where the former might even be an emetic consequence of the latter): witness America."

Suck it, NRA

http://www.alternet.org/rights/109841/untold_story_of_election_2008:_the_death_of_the_nra/

10 gone from each side? An interesting thought experiment...

http://www.thedailybanter.com/tdb/2008/11/10-people-who-need-to-go-away.html

http://www.thedailybanter.com/tdb/2008/12/10-democrats-who-should-go-away.html

Simon Dumenco is a huge idiot who should do us all a favor and take his sense of self-entitlement and throw it off a cliff. Jerk.

http://men.style.com/details/blogs/details/2008/11/post-1.html?mbid=typepad

It's all about the benjamins

http://www.reason.com/news/show/129216.html

Sigh

http://jezebel.com/5100793/roe-vs-world

Beauty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9OUEokWR7A

I'll take it.

http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=132876

Political terminology lesson. Interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Stats lesson: Barack Obama can lay claim to being president of the entire country in a way that few candidates of the past can.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/population-and-popular-vote.html

Be cool.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/weekinreview/30zernike.html?pagewanted=1&em

I know this sounds horrible, but I think I'm over Christmas.

http://jezebel.com/5099790/black-friday-wal+mart-employee-trampled-to-death-in-early-morning-stampede

A conversation with Toni Morrison

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/video-a-conversation-with-toni-morrison/

I approve of this.

Basically, once a society begins to near equality for men and women, providing women with more autonomy and less of an incentive or requirement to buy into patriarchal sexual mores, they don't — and then many of them go have a bunch of sex.

http://jezebel.com/5099412/why-do-women-sleep-around

Good. Finally.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111703682.html?

And now for something completely different: capitalism as it SHOULD be...or, reason 127 why I love my Honda.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0904/112.html

Can it, conservatives. There's no such thing as a liberal media.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/15/sunday-conservative/

Sarah Palin is still giving us chills. And not in a good way. For those who like her to lead us, I say "grow a brain."

http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/the-wild-wordsmith-of-wasilla/?em

Dennis Miller is a turd on the sidewalk of life.

http://gawker.com/5086260/women-hate-palin-because-she-has-a-great-sex-life

Whoa, Pat Buchanan. Settle down, or I'm going to be forced to call you a commie pinko.

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/768800.html

An interesting take on the pendulum

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1858771,00.html

And now, some background

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/31/040531fa_fact1?currentPage=1

Didion has a point.

http://jezebel.com/5083302/joan-didion-is-kind-of-a-downer-about-the-election

I love Boston Legal. That is all.

http://abc.go.com/primetime/bostonlegal/index?pn=index

What strange times...

http://jezebel.com/5080687/how-facebook-status-updates-are-ruining-your-post+election-social-life

booyah

http://jezebel.com/5081199/barack-obama-wins--bush-executive-orders-lose

Why we wept

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/08/obama-race-democrats-us-elections

Long live America!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin

I refuse to stop basking

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html

The future of the GOP?

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/the-conservativ.html

A valid quesion

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/palin-2012.html#more

I could be all graceful like the folks behind FakeSarahPalin at Twitter and stop my blog list. But eff that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/us/politics/06mccain.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

This is Beth's reaction to the Obama win...we ARE that lil horse!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhoKDbY-L-w&eurl

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life...and I'm feelin' good.

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/obama_11_05/obama27_16804595.jpg

Three Ashleys

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/three-ashleys.html

Alaska is in the tank for Obama

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/567867.html

These insinuations are terrible. Shame on you, Sarah Palin. Shame.

http://jezebel.com/5068900/sarah-palin-obama-will-create-a-country-where-the-people-are-not-free

Give me a break

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h0S_-WZ32SLwqlSl84qr8MxA1SbQD9416KHO0

This might actually be genius.

http://gawker.com/5068535/whassup-remix-changes-things

Let the record show

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinrecords24-2008oct24,0,6683728.story

Weeee!

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/10/24/McCain_campaign_blame.html?imw=Y

Know thy enemy...this is horrifying

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTA0YjdjZDc2OTVlNmM1YmE1YTY4ODRlYzUzMjc0YTc=

Voter suppression

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23638322/block_the_vote/print

Ish.

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200810170676

I think I'm ready for this to be over now.

http://gawker.com/5065908/mccain-palin-pick-a-cold-political-calculation#viewcomments

Two pictures say it all.

http://gawker.com/5065690/100000-attend-obama-rally-in-st-louis

This is a wonderful summary of the election and I encourage all to read it and share it.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-chicago-tribune-endorsement,0,1371034.story?page=1

How can anyone put up with a candidate who looks you right in the eye and says "the sky is green!"

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/14/martin.campaign/index.html

Stop it, right

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/the-dangerous-p.html

Uncool, starbucks. Uncool.

http://www.greendaily.com/2008/10/06/h2offenders-starbucks-gets-blasted-for-leaving-tap-running-at-a/?icid=100214839x1211264087x1200635048

Please read and share

http://jezebel.com/5061254/

Who really supports our troops?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/top-iraqafghan-vets-group_b_132542.html

Who do YOU pal around with, Sarah?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniG9l_7its

The Republicans are getting desperate. Palin's sarcasm is just ridiculous. And I say that as a person who is only earnest in sleep.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/palin-obama-is-palling-around-with-terrorists/

Wait, wait, I'm confused. Who is the elitest again? Oh right, the dude married to the heiress.

http://www.prosebeforehos.com/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/www.prosebeforehos.com/political-ironing/10/04/but-he-drives-a-hybrid-what-an-elitist/index.html

I might have a stroke.

http://video.236.com/services/link/bcpid1612766543/bctid1834405280

to summarize...

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/41792/original.jpg

great

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/oct/03/science.choosingadegree

Jay-sus

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/104/story/220041.html

Teehee

http://www.236.com/news/2008/10/01/debate_training_biden_learns_w_1_9211.php

Healthcare for women on the individual market

http://www.newamerica.net/blog/new-health-dialogue/2008/coverage-women-pay-more-health-insurance-individual-market-7347

Was

http://gawker.com/5056697/poetic-signage

Silence

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/In_reintroduction_Palin_to_do_more_interviews_and_tell_her_story.html

I'm actually afraid. Like, I walk around as if everything is normal, but there is this heavy weight sitting on my chest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8__aXxXPVc

Ben Stein...democrat?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/business/28every.html?em

I admit it, I'm obsessed with Palin. What am I going to do all day when she bows out?

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=

Yep. I think the last line of this piece really sums it up. Of course, she could've said no.

http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/poor-sarah/?em

Rush, here's hoping you're reborn as a fungus. Oh wait, that was this time around.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/23/limbaugh-obama-arab-2/

Money talks, and we're speaking loudly

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13767.html

Dear God, she's fierce. And limber.

http://jezebel.com/5053874/dancing-with-the-stars-cloris-leachman-is-limber--lovably-looney?autoplay=true

Chime in, why dontcha?

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

Love her! Love her! Love her!

http://current.com/items/89317322_target_women_cleaning

A little comedy and a little advice

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd-sorkin.html?_r=1&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin

Perhaps I'll rethink my cynicism

http://www.alternet.org/election08/99424/polls_show_palin_is_starting_to_drag_down_mccain/?page=1

How can hedge fund managers and over-compensated CEOs see this and not feel a little guilty?

http://current.com/items/89323330_tent_cities_spread_in_us_as_economy_sags

I'm not going to mince words. Palin makes me sick.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5844710&page=1

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5804581&page=1

Cool. I embrace this, because 'entertainment' is going to consist of library books by candlelight if I don't get an assignment soon.

http://jezebel.com/5052468/75-books-every-woman-should-read

Finally, some republicans stop sucking down the kool-aid.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/18/hagel-palin-experience-a-%e2%80%98stretch%e2%80%99/

When did we forget our souls, America?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/opinion/18cohen.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin

I, for one, am shocked. Shocked!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/18/voting.problems/index.html?eref=rss_us

Stop insulting our intelligence, Mr. McCain

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/17/opinion/17wed1.html?em

Margaret Cho, will you be my friend?

http://www.margaretcho.com/blog/2008/09/17/im-a-christian-you-fuckers.html

"I can do whatever I want"...keep in mind this was happening at the same time Obama was a state senator and constitutional law prof.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/17/palin_mayor/

We can't hear you! Hahaha!

http://mediamatters.org/columns/200809160015

A mental recession

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20080915/NEWS/809150221/-1/opinion&title=John_Ward__John_McCain_and_Phil_Gramm

"He hasn't found it yet."

http://news.aol.com/elections/article/powell-undecided-on-presidential-race/175989?icid=100214839x1209772875x1200538374

In her own words

http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=8dc50b47-ae0e-4748-8e2d-c24bfb3fb75a

Compassion my ass

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/18/1033681-bush-veto-of-child-health-bill-sustained

Today is a day I'd like to crawl back into bed

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122143893857134389.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

A really excellent political blog, for those with higher standards...

http://aabw.blogspot.com/

Voter protection is no joke.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/10/28/hampering_the_vote/

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2005/08/0080696

Let's talk economy for a minute

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=1e25f9b0-1d05-4f91-84ce-c19067b5a0a7

Good point...it's a shame that dems need to be meaner though. I'd like to see more critical thinking from voters.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/09/this_is_barack_obamas_election.cfm

10 hard questions

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080929/pollitt

So which is it then? Let's be reasonable

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/defense_mccain_FCS_091208/

Greenspan sums it up.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aKZG._gG2NVI&refer=politics

I cannot get enough of Sarah Haskins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLerM2PAQsU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqqO_KvqLAY&feature=related

Huh?

GIBSON: The state of Alaska, under OMB figures in 2008, got $155 million in earmarks for a population of 670,000. That's $231 per person in Alaska. The state of Illinois, Obama's state, got $22 per person. You got ten times per person as much. How does that square with your reforms?
PALIN: We have drastically, drastically reduced our earmark request since I came into office.
GIBSON: But you still have multiple of any other state.
PALIN: We sure are -- and this is what -- you go out and you ask any Alaskan this. This is what I've been telling Alaskans for these years that I've been in office, is no more.

When did blinking (aka, stopping for a moment to think) become bad public policy?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/opinion/13sat1.html?em

Heh, I hope so...

http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/2_image001.jpg

An excellent role model

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052801400.html

Cutting through partisan rancor

http://www.factcheck.org

Conservative hypocrisy

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/opinion/12fri1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The Myth of Main St. USA...an excellent piece about a world that never existed

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1840388,00.html

Getting rolling...with a transcript, some commentary, an op-ed on the heartland, and some cold, hard science

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=5782924&page=1

http://www.slate.com/id/2199999/

http://www.wsj.com/article/SB122100226859616967.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=15-answers-to-creationist