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Jim Henley endorses John Kerry on the basis of his willing to address Americans as adults when it comes to terrorism.

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Slate posted the endorsements of every contributor and staffer that they could round up yesterday, including Gerry Shargel, the Mafia defense attorney who participated in their dialogues on the Sopranos a few times. (He endorses Kerry.) I wasn’t surprised to see Slate’s Middle East commentator, Lee Smith, endorse Bush. He’s in the group of people [...]

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Looks like the Bush administration has decided that Cuban-style democracy makes sense for Iraq right now. That may be the right answer, but they really shouldn’t have teased the Iraqis with the idea that they’d get to choose their own leaders for all these months.

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So I had this big plan to write a new weblogging tool in Java based on the Spring framework. The idea was that I’d use the project to get rid of some of my old creaky code and to learn Spring inside and out. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), it didn’t take me very long to [...]

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Jim Kunstler is constantly harping on John Kerry for not confronting America with the hard truth, which seems to me to be painfully naive. I’m in the group of people that pretty much constantly obsesses about just how screwed we are (in the larger sense of things), but I don’t think that a politician that [...]

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So somebody in Iraq has made off with 380 tons of high explosives. Wonder what sort of people would have stolen something like that? Update: Josh Marshall is all over this story. This blog entry from Eric Umansky is tangentially related as well.

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A survey of voters seems to show that one of the big reasons people support President Bush is that they’re incredibly ignorant. (Via Political Animal.)

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Jay Rosen reports that Sinclair’s real intentions with regard to airing the anti-Kerry documentary Stolen Honor were to force John Kerry to give them an interview and edit that interview and air it to portray him in a negative light. Since Kerry won’t play, they’ve cooked up this new documentary that will include everything but [...]

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As the election draws nearer, I continue to try more desperately to figure out why people are going to vote to reelect President Bush. I’m not making a joke here, I mean I really sit and think hard about why someone would think that’s a good idea. And honestly, it’s hard not to come to [...]

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William Gibson, in the process of dissing any conservative fans he might have, has this to say about Ronald Reagan:

If I were to put together a truly essential thank-you list for the people who most made it possible for me to write my first six novels, I’d certainly owe as much to Ronald Reagan as [...]

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