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Just got through David Brooks’ piece in the Sunday NYT Magazine. I must admit, I’m a sucker for this kind of big-picture-reinventing-democracy fluff, and Brooks doesn’t disappoint. He’s defly woven his longtime hobbyhorse, “National Greatness Conservatism” into a more fleshed out agenda for where he’d like to see the Party of Lincoln in [...]

Apparently Pat Roberts has come up with a doozy of a plan to dismantle the CIA and reform the American Intelligence apparatus.
I’m all for big changes at the CIA. The whole National Security Infrastructure is a relic of World War 3. And if, like some, you belive we’re in the middle of World [...]

Hi folks,
As you know, Bruno and I are out not just to take the country back from the Morlocks, but to reenvision the future in a way the is meaningful, progressive, and achievable. Here’s a piece I wrote about my political views a while back.
Thought some of you might find it interesting.
Matski
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Wonderful op-ed in today’s L.A. Times on fundamentalism of all stripes. Mr. Harris starts out by arguing that even a constitutional ban on Gay Marriage wouldn’t satisfy those who believe in writing the Bible into American law:
Leviticus 20:13 and the New Testament book of Romans reveal that the God of the Bible doesn’t merely [...]

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Aside from Matski’s parenthetical below, I don’t have much to say about NJ Governor Jim McGreevey’s announcement that he’s resigning due to an affair with another man. But this photo and caption struck me as a little snarky on the part of the news bureau:

You know, I’m willing to buy into the idea that it was Pakistan, not Karl Rove, pushing for the “July surprise.” And yet, if Pakistan knows that it will make Bush happy to produce a HVT at the end of July, does that make Bush any less complicit?
In a lot of ways, [...]

I’m sorry, but I can’t stand this woman.
I was watching her on C-SPAN the other night talking to Bob Kerrey. She’s on the House Government Reform committee (ironies abound), and she’s asking him these dumb-ass party-line questions about whether or not the commission could say for sure whether the intelligence was politicized. [...]

Definitely check out this Slate article on SUVs and the 3-ton truck standards. According to the article, large SUVs, in excess of 6,000 pounds, are technically banned from many local streets. The article focuses on California, but it resonates elsewhere as well.
This gets at how I’ve come to think of SUVs recently: [...]

As some people have noticed, Apple’s iTunes Music Store is offering free audio downloads of the DNC speakers. I downloaded Clinton and Obama. Kerry can wait. But as I browsed the complete list of speakers, I noticed something curious:

I mean, we all knew John Edwards was a Man of The People with [...]