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It’s been two weeks so there’s lots and lots of news out there.

The Amish are coming. They are coming to your state. They are coming for your farmland.  They are taking your jobs.  They are killing dogs. They are being represented by the ACLU. Soon, if they keep fornicating like bunnies, the only people in [...]

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We’ve had a couple of days now to mull over the Sarah Palin pick, listen to everyone blather on and on about good or bad, smart or stupid, forget about it in the wake of Hurricane Gustav and then think about it again.
In her favor:

She won me $35 in the office Republican VP pool.

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Prelude:
It’s a riot watching the PBS team.  They seriously sound like they are all about 80 years old (maybe because they are?), talking about the young people looking good dancing; cracking old people jokes about Biden’s orthodontist; loving them some Stevie Wonder.  It’s kinda funny (and a nice break from the MSNBC bickering despite [...]

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You might think it’s the second coming of JFK and FDR and MLK (and a little bit of Marilyn Monroe thrown in for good measure) with the frenzy that’s surrounding Democrats in Denver and the media that suckle at their breasts.  But no, it’s just a man — a historic, paradigm-shifting, silver-tongued man — accepting [...]

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Will Democrats ever stop loving Bill Clinton?  We keep forgiving him over and over again for all sorts of stuff. Why do we do that?  I mean, he did some crappy stuff over this past year and yet the roars and cheers keep coming.
Everyone is loving the Bill Clinton speech.  Pundits, bloggers, the audience.  Even [...]

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I know I shouldn’t get caught up in this stuff … it’s all orchestrated, it’s all just pageantry, it’s all just backroom deals and handshake agreements that will somehow end up hurting us or the party or something … and yet, I have to say that watching the roll call vote today gave me goosebumps.
It’s [...]

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Why I picked it up: Another one of the 50% off bookshop bankruptcy sale buys. Plus, I really liked Dirt Music and The Riders (although I don’t think I understood that one very well).
Tim Winton writes about men.  Not just any men but a particular strain of men — loners whose outward … stoicism [...]

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It appears that while the major channels were talking to themselves or to boring Virginia wanna-be, probably gonna-be senators, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer gave one hellava speech. So I missed it.  But again, thank goodness for the internets and their uncanny ability to not let a single moment of our collective history go unrecorded.
You could [...]

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Why are there no cable channels showing the Kucinich speech? It looks like he’s getting a good response (thank god for the intertubes). I actually would prefer to hear what he has to say as opposed to hearing the media talk to each other about Hillary Clinton.
If it weren’t for my love of [...]

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Someday, a wife of a man running for President will get up in front of America and not have to talk about herself primarily as a mother, as a daughter, as a wife.   She will be able to talk about Princeton and Harvard Law School without having to reference her humble roots as a corrective.  [...]

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