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The first time Bush pronounced it that way in Sunday’s speech I figured he had ellided it by mistake with the word ‘and’ that followed, but the second time he said ‘Afghanistand’ I had to wonder if he really thinks that’s how it’s pronounced.

I’ve never been a big fan of Gray Davis, who doesn’t seem to stand for anything but himself, but I also find this recall process to be misguided and suspicious in its funding and in the way it makes a scapegoat of Davis for issues that are either beyond his control or that were actively…

I’ve been following Daniel Weintraub’s excellent California Insider weblog recently, because he posts California Recall updates several times a day. His reportage is very good, but lately it seems to me that he’s been going easy on Schwarzenegger (bending over backward to be evenhanded, if you ask me) while lambasting Davis, Bustamante, and now Dean.…

The California Insider quotes two Republicans on Arnold’s strengths and weaknesses.

I’m feeling groggy today because I stayed up half the night reading most of Al Franken’s new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. I expected it to be funny, and it is, but it is also infuriating and uplifting. I’ve seen the attacks on…

Michael Watkins suggests that some heads will have to roll. But isn’t everything working out just as planned, haven’t we got them right where we want them, isn’t our hat-in-hand approach to the UN just a continuation of our previous efforts? Inquiring minds and all that.

The Edwards campaign has gone public with their Slashcode-based blog, with categories for each state.

So I attended the Oakland Dean 2004 meetup at the Box Theatre last night. Here’s a good shot of my emerging bald spot. You know, I’ve always voted, and usually for Democrats, but I’ve never before volunteered for a candidate or become in any way involved aside from passively following campaigns and then voting (and,…

Michele at A Small Victory finds that she is neither a leftist nor a rightist, but rather “just right” (with apologies to Golidlocks).

The story about an Iraqi contractor estimating $300,000 to repair a bridge and an American contractor getting the job with a bid of $50,000,000 has now made it from an Iraqi blog to US blogs to mainstream journalist Jon Carroll and back into the blogosphere. OK, so it wasn’t about ooooooil, after all. It was…

LiberalOasis interviews Paul Krugman.

Just noticed Sullivan’s second thoughts re the mess in Iraq. For the most part, though, he’s still got his ideological blinders on when it’s not his axe being gored (for example, gay marriage). Further up the page he sides with Somerby on promiscuous accusations of lying, but doesn’t see the irony of “gets it right…

The drumbeat continues. Will Will fess up to his misleading cut ‘n’ paste job? Not half likely.

While it’s nice – in a way – to see O’Reilly thoroughly fisked like this, isn’t it really a waste of energy? Does the guy really matter? Isn’t it about time he vanished up his own digestive tract?

Michael Watkins is calling for Wolfowitz’s head.

David Neiwert has ably deconstructed the equivalency argument that equates opposition to Bush with the rabid Clinton-hating of the last decade.

Oliver Willis cites Dick Cheney for obstruction of justice. What happeend to that story circulating a few weeks ago that the energy task force documents included maps of Iraq’s oil fields? Speaking of connecting the dots, when is someone going to connect Bush et al., Ken Lay, Enron, the California energy crisis, the northeast blackout,…

I heard on the Lehrer news hour today that the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq since the declaration of an end to major combat operations now equals the number of casualties during said major combat operations. So now the occupation is already technically as deadly as the invasion was and we are still only…

In Net gains, an op-ed in the Boston Globe, Cory Doctorow argues that a political sleeping giant – the Internet-savvy – is waking up and trying to learn how to go beyond pointing out flaw and poking holes. He mentions the greater sources of news information online, weblogs, and things like the campign Meetups and…

I lost five productive years of potential 410(k) accumulation at the beginning of my working life because I expected the international monetary system to collapse within the decade. You should always have bought a house 15 years ago, no matter how outrageous the price seemed then. One of my favorite books of philosophy is Money…