"Undermining my electoral viability since 2001."

Idealism + Booze + Frustration = Righteous Indignation

Could have gone different; could have been about the farm gril from North Carolina who bought me a beer at the bar. Instead was about arguments over class-action lawsuits and the meaning of opt-out vs. opt-in in relatively meaningless circumstance. Led to great dissent with me and one of Nick's law-school friends (previous reference), all of us, I presume, with a buzz on.

And that's the thing; most people who are getting the shaft right now do not have the consciousness of a 2nd year law student. A lot goes on off their radar. And so one must imagine outside oneself to forsee possible future circumstances. And I shout a lot; used the resulting awkwardness as an excuse to head home. Hopefully no hard feelings.

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On an unrelated note, here's that Bush and Busey (Gary) cartoon I've been talking about. Hillarious! It's so weird and not dorkily political, and pomo and genius!. One of the funniest things I've seen all year.

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Jon Stewart on CROSSFIRE!

Jon Stewart was on CNN's CROSSFIRE today, declaring it all theater, declaring the lunch naked, making known the opinion of many that such a farcical slapfigh passing for the highest level of political discourse is in fact hurtful for the country and for democracy. Watching Carlson and Begalia do their best to laugh it off, you really get a sense of how hollow that whole scene is. Stewart's on the main nerve now: it's not Bush that's the problem. He's not even all that good a politician.

What's wrong is the system that let him do what he has done.

Jon, you are now my personal hero, not in any romantic sense, but in the mythic sense that I identify with your struggle and wish that I could do the things you are able to do. My hat is off.

Bittorrent link here. Pass it on!

(what the heck is "bittorrent?")

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Jon Stewart on CROSSFIRE!

Jon Stewart was on CNN's CROSSFIRE today, declaring it all theater, declaring the lunch naked, making known the opinion of many that such a farcical slapfigh passing for the highest level of political discourse is in fact hurtful for the country and for democracy. Watching Carlson and Begalia do their best to laugh it off, you really get a sense of how hollow that whole scene is. Stewart's on the main nerve now: it's not Bush that's the problem. He's not even all that good a politician.

What's wrong is the system that let him do what he has done.

Jon, you are now my personal hero, not in any romantic sense, but in the mythic sense that I identify with your struggle and wish that I could do the things you are able to do. My hat is off.

Bittorrent link here. Pass it on!

(what the heck is "bittorrent?")

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Stollerizer

Matt Stoller is good with words:

"Bush can no longer claim to be a superb commander in chief. He can only claim to be an unapologetic one."

I think that's an excellent summary. The rest of the analysis in the article (about why the GOP freaked on Kerry's mention of Mary Cheney) is pretty good too, but those two sentences rang clear like a bell for me.

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William Gibson is Blogging Again!

One of my early literay heroes is blogging again, after taking quite a long hiatus:

Why?

Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succintly puts it, a president who makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln.

And because, as the Spanish philospher Unamuno said, "At times, to be silent is to lie."

See, George, now you've got the neuromancer on your ass too. What are you gonna do?

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Takin' My Country Back

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Loss of Appetite

Bill O'Reilly hit with arassment suit by female producer. This will probably be a he-said/she-said, but the very idea that men actually act this way with women is enough to put me in a bad mood.

SICK!

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A President Falls Before The Sword of TiVo

Bush fucked himself. The "ex-agg-er-a-tion" line is a gaffe on the level of Dukakis in the tank or Dean's post-Iowa scream. The rough cut, which took less than 12 hours to emerge from blogger one good move, is devistating:

Not Concerned

I actually wrote something a lot more coherant about this on BOP News.

It's far from a done deal, but the race is now officially a matter of putting our heads down and running some king-hell Democratic GOTV. Let's get to it.

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Dubya's Last Stand (Plus Some Gut-Check Honesty)

Dubya's Last Stand (Plus Some Gut-Check Honesty)

2233 words on the debate and what I think it's all about with some real good honest stuff at the end. Please go read it and leave me a comment of what you think.

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Election Day Registration Kills Vote-Supression

Voter registration is getting fucked up by Republicans all over the country. It's a goddamn vote-supression shitstorm out there. Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada, Minnesota... dirty tricksters and underhanded election officials are tipping the scales all over the place.

One of those states isn't too much of a worry though. Minnesota. Why? Same. Day. Registration. That makes all these bullshit paper games a waste of time, and we need it nationwide next time around. Seriously.

This is someting I'm going to start hollering about soon after the election, but here's a sneak peak. Our use of technology in assisting the mechanisms of governance is bass-ackwards in this country. We have voting machines that don't work and fail to produce paper recipts, and an enormous paper-heavy bureaucracy that's easily fucked with for voter registration.

There's no reason not to have same-day (election day) registration. It can be done. It works. It boosts participation. A little about same-day registration.

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