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Disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with the point of view expressed in the links I post. I do find them interesting for a variety of reasons, and in general worthy of discussion.

• The Obama Promise F

  Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, left, and Glenn Loury of Brown University debate Barack Obama's post-ideological stance

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• Seed: Seed Video Feature: Lawrence Krauss + Natalie Jeremijenko (Full Cut)

  The Star Trek physicist enters the Seed Salon to discuss participation, the politics of knowledge production, and seduction with the artist/engineer.



• Laura Bush, docile doormat / Behold, the ideal Republican wife: Prim, sexless, nearly useless, lets the men do the real thinkin'. Hot!


• CQ Politics | Four Michigan Dems Propose Compromise on Seating Delegation

  A negotiating team of top Michigan Democrats has come forward with a compromise plan to seat the state’s delegation to the national convention that would give New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton a slight advantage in the delegate count over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama .

  The proposal comes about four months after the Democratic National Committee stripped Michigan of all its delegates because the state party advanced the date of its primary in violation of Democratic National Committee rules.

  The authors of the plan, sent to Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer on Tuesday, said it essentially “splits the difference between the 73/55 position of the Clinton campaign and the 64/64 position of the Obama campaign.”

  It would give Clinton 69 delegates to Obama’s 59, a 10-delegate advantage for Clinton that would be less than if the allocation was based entirely on the Jan. 15 primary, in which she won 55 percent of the popular vote



• The SUPREMES do it again » Listics

  Cousin Betty Jo writes,

  It must be coincidence that only 9 days before the Indiana Primary, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Indiana’s photo ID voting law may be applied to the May 6 election.

  What’s the problem with that? Suppose you don’t drive, so don’t have a government ID? Well, of course, you can go wait in line at the DMV to get an id.



• Language Log » Books more loved than looked inI mentioned recently here on Language Log that the people who live in terror of splitting infinitives appear never to have looked inside the handbooks that they claim to be respecting. I came upon a remarkable instance of this the other day while looking for something else.


• KR Blog » Blog Archive » Proseac! For the Tortured Writer’s Soul


• Secular Philosophy


• NYTimes.com hand-codes its HTML - Boing Boing


• Corporate America Hearts Obama | Election 2008 | AlterNet


• By The Fault » Blog Archive » Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index


•   Fuck Your Yellow Ribbon (Andrea Gibson at the 2006 poetry slam, performing "For Eli")