Submitted to a Candid World

It’s been unofficial for some time, of course, but this just proves it. In her latest rant, Riverdaughter demands that you vote for her: and, if you don’t, it naturally follows that you either hate all women or specifically old women. Oh, and the only reason “Wonkette” is winning is that the “Wonktards” (their super-mature [...]

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Citing discomfort with seating any candidate nominated by disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, the Senate today turned away Ronald Burris, refusing to seat him as the junior senator from Illinois. A prediction: because Burris would replace Obama as the only African-American in the Senate, by end of business today, Republican sources will already be crying [...]

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Somehow our arch-nemesis, the PUMA blog “The Confluence,” was nominated by the 2008 Weblog Awards as one of the Best Liberal Blogs of 2008. Friends, we know better: Confluence isn’t liberal, it’s a “national enquirer” of anti-Obama conspiracy theories and wingnuttery. If Confluence wins, they’ll use the award to legitimize themselves as the “new left” [...]

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As we’ve reported before, the 2008 Weblog Awards made the mistake of nominating PUMA-blog “The Confluence” as one of the “best liberal blogs of 2008.” Critically, neither Confluence nor PUMA-dom are liberal - they’re Obama conspiracy theory agglomerates, nothing more - and we suspect Weblog Award administrator/conservative blogger Kevin Aylward knows as much, and is [...]

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Attempting to unseat Jimmy Carter in 1980, Ronald Reagan, at the presidential debate, asked America a simple question: are you better off today than you were four years ago? The assumed answer - “no” - powered him to victory over the already unpopular incumbent.. Today, I’ll ask a variant of the same question. Are you [...]

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Glenn Branch & Eugenie Scott, Scientific American, “The Latest Face of Creationism in the Classroom”: We all have our heroes, and Eugenie Scott is one of mine. As far as I know, she’s undefeated in battling creationism in the classroom, and a nice person to boot. With co-writer Branch, Scott tackles creationism’s latest mutation: its [...]

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Good news everyone! According to calculations by the Minnesota Board of Elections - see right - Al Franken maintains a shocking, insurmountable forty-nine vote lead over Republican challenger Norm Coleman. What’s actually remarkable is that this lead is, actually, potentially insurmountable, and the Coleman campaign is already plotting and executing strategic legal reversals to try [...]

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A founding premise of this blog is the idea that political symbols have value - “myth, power, value,” as a professor of mine used to say - both as campaign tools and as methods of molding the national consciousness. As a result, political symbols are worth fighting over, not just as a battle in [...]

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What’s in a name? For the judges of the 2008 Weblog Awards, who saw fit to designate “The Confluence” as one of 2008’s “best liberal blogs,” apparently not much. Confluence is part and parcel of that pernicious mind-virus known as PUMA-ism, a pseudo-political ideology group of angry people and hangers-on whose only goal, since June [...]

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For much of humanity, 2008 was a rough year: war continued apace; terrorism remained a threat, with the world’s largest democracy witnessing a full-scale invasion; and the global financial market disintegrated overnight. When future generations look back on our lives, in global terms at least, 2008 may well be something of a write-off, the dusk [...]

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