September 14, 2003
Sunday Reading
Yahoo runs a story about blog coverage of the California recall, and mysteriously miss Calpundit. How'd that happen?
Salam Pax writes about blogging from Baghdad.
Let the Record Show discusses Sen. Patty Murray's fundraiser controversy, and has a graphic depiction of Bush's Bin Laden flip-flop.
Yesterday, someone at the Dean blog pointed to this article discussing how we're going to be paying for wear and tear on our military equipment now in Iraq for a long time to come. The word is that the $87 billion request is "just a down payment."
The RIAA shows up at MIT & Boston College, subpoenas in hand. Unsurprisingly, there's a rousing Slashdot discussion on the topic.
Different Strings on how 9-11 has morphed from tragedy to excuse.
Colin Powell talks about the UN and Iraq.
Making Light tells us about an archaeologist's blog, and it sounds like a good read. In the same post, she goes on to talk about artifact forgery and theft.
Liberal Oasis on Bush's bad day and the Democrats' hard choice.
Ruminate This on the big lie of compassion.
Seeing the Forest brings us the good news that senators are paying attention to electronic voting.
Body and Soul blogs about the WTO talks in Cancun and the UN.
It's shortly going to be James Capozzola's birthday, and he talks about gift registries, along with all the wedding and shower gifts he's given over the years.
Daily Kos alerts us to a Salon book review that finds excellent dirt dished on the Bushies by none other than Tucker Carlson.
How To Save The World talks about the US' looming economic train wreck, and why people don't vote.
Tom Tomorrow has a guest piece by William Greider about why progressives should read his book about capitalism. Makes some good points about 'the vision thing.'
The Left Coaster points out that a Clark entry will doom Lieberman, and discusses the Gephardt attacks on Dean regarding Medicare. This is a side by side comparison of the Dean and Gephardt healthcare plans. Billmon weighs in.
Also at Billmon's, the 'friendly fire' incident where several Iraqi security personnel were killed by US soldiers, read the comments.
Ampersand has a good weekend reading roundup, and yes, I'm going to make you go all the way over there to find the link to a good series on the Bush family's Nazi connections, the history of 'identity politics,' and sexism in progressive politics.
Speaking of Ampersand, he of the 'revenge of can conservatives be feminists,' I discovered that there's an organization set up to get Republican women into office. It's called The WISH List. It's tagline reads as follows, don't get caught with food in your mouth while reading:
"Equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity belong to all, regardless of race, creed, color, national origin or sex." --Principles of the Republican Party.
Republican shill Frank Luntz was on Hardball (they're playing reruns) reminding people that the John Birch Society started in California, by way of alerting the viewing public to the fact that there really are conservatives in the state. So you have to wonder if he thinks mentioning that will really help his cause, and what that says about the conservative movement generally if it does. He is, of course, slamming 'illegals' all the way. By which he means the Mexican immigrants who ensure that Americans pay less of a percentage of their income on food than most any other society.
Posted by natasha at September 14, 2003 01:22 PM | TrackBackMost of the people on the list appear to be professional journalists of one kind or another. It seems to be the usual tactic: the only blogs worth mentioning are those written by journalists or other professionals. We the people don't count.
Of course, they completely missed the fact that Calpundit is written by a journalism consultant.
Posted by: Joel on September 14, 2003 09:59 PMGRAY DAVIS'S TERM AS GOVERNOR INVALIDATED BY FEDERAL APPEALS COURT
In a stunning development in the California recall saga, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that Gray Davis is not the legitimate governor of California because his margin of victory in the last election was within the margin of error of what the court called an anachronistic, obsolete punch-card voting system. The Court had been asked by various recall opponents (including the ACLU and others funded by Davis) to delay the recall to allow Davis an opportunity to sign into law every piece of legislation that favored a California special interest group with at least ten members. Aides to Davis had calculated that it would take at least six months to identify such groups, solicit donations from them, then draft and pass special-interest legislation if favor of each of them. Their plan backfired, however, when the Ninth Circuit not only ruled that the California recall election must be delayed for six months so that all VotoMatic machines can be replaced with used butterfly chad ballot machines from Florida, but also held that Davis can in fact run against himself in the recall because he is not presently governor of California. The Court is currently considering the issue of whether Ronald Reagan was validly elected governor of California and if not, whether a recall is still possible to select a replacement for his term.
Developing . . .