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Kevin Drum (of CalPundit fame) is going to be the official (read “paid”) weblogger for Washington Monthly. I guess we can put him in the “living the dream” category now.

The Daily Kos has a list of some Bush flip flops. Changing your position because you’ve reconsidered your postition, or because you have to follow the party line, or because you have to be responsive to the people who vote for you is a big part of the job of being a politician. It’s more shameful to hypocritically accuse your opponent of flip flopping than to flip flop as far as I’m concerned. The Kos list isn’t very tidy, as far as it goes. I think you could make a fine list of times when Bush advocated one policy and then went with another. ...

It’s early, but we may have the winning entry in the “dumbest election year controversy” category already. There’s a mini-eruption over the fact that dirty words can be found on the official John Kerry campaign Web site. Some of them are even in direct quotations from the candidate himself. All I can say about this is that if Kerry can successfully pitch himself as the candidate for people who use profanity, we’ll have a new President come November. ...

Radley Balko has a post about something that really does affect all of our lives on a day to day basis – traffic lights. The town where I live has just started installing cameras at its most dangerous intersections, so this post is of particular interest to me.

William Saletan has an article advising John Kerry on how to beat President Bush that threw me at first, specifically in this passage: He's been telling Democrats Bush is "the biggest say-one-thing, do-another" president ever. Yesterday Kerry's campaign responded to Bush's ads by accusing the president of "unsteady leadership." In the Democratic primaries, this accusation worked for Kerry, because liberals think Bush is a liar. But most voters don't, for a good reason: It isn't true. If Kerry makes the election a referendum on Bush's honesty, Bush will win. I'm a liberal, so I had trouble with this. It seemed to me that President Bush lies all the time. Saletan's argument is that Bush doesn't lie -- he really believes the things he says. He's probably right, and what President Bush does is worse than lying.

Josh Marshall has some issues with the list of Kerry waffles that Slate published yesterday. I’m still waiting for the table of President Bush waffles. I thought up a number today without even trying that hard.

When are companies, government agencies, and everyone else going to learn how revision control in Microsoft Word documents works? SCO has revealed portions of its sooper sekrit legal plans by sending out a Word document with the revision history intact. Couldn’t happen to a bigger bunch of jerks.

Last February, Marc Fisher argued that shock jocks are the real alternative to conservative talk radio. This February, Howard Stern read Al Franken’s book while he was on vacation, came back and badmouthed Bush, and then got fired by ClearChannel. That’s what I call getting it right.

The Motley Fool’s Seth Jayson is bearish on SCO based on the poor quarterly numbers they just released. The article says that SCO only brought in $20,000 in revenue in its Linux licensing program in the first quarter. Is that the EV1Servers.net license?

Finally, a judge has ordered SCO to put up or shut up. If SCO is honest about its allegations, they should be able to satisfy this request tomorrow.