Urban Humanist

The same guy who sold you the Iraq War, now wants John McCain to “go positive,” just weeks after imploring him to go negative by invoking the “Wright Stuff.” Within a span of weeks, William Kristol has shown just how morally bankrupt the right-wing has become, not to mention their deficit in meaningful ideas. For [...]

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Stanley Fish is almost always insightful and fun: The Power of Passive Campaigning - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com.

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In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, David Horsey offers an alternative to Sarah Palin’s divisive view of America and “real Americans.”

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has written a chilling story, Block the Vote in Rolling Stone. Along with Kennedy’s piece, I recommend Alexander Keyssar’s The Right to Vote (Harvard, 2000) for a longer historical view on efforts to expand the franchise, as well as systematic efforts to limit voting.

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Ok, so that’s pretty obvious, right.  It’s even more apparent because we still don’t have windows in the addition and they’ve begun to break through into the house–beginning with the kids’ bathroom and a portion of our bedroom roof. Actually, these weren’t planned, but happy accidents of a sort. We will redo the kids’ bathroom [...]

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