What They Fought For

From EE's cousin Joyce, age 80

Namecalling 101

Grampy and Vampy.

Happy Halloween From The Beagles

Hockey Mom Against Sarah

Are Polls Tightening?

(As virtually everyone said they would)
Depends on what you look at, says Josh in his daily tutorial.

Action Item: Preserve Pubic Airwaves For Public Use

Go here to send your opinion to the FCC.

Colbert Endorses Obama

Why not, so many other conservatives are doing it.

Here's The Infomercial

In case you missed it.

Polls Mean Nothing Dept.

TPM is telling us the latest CNN polls in Bush states look so good for Obama that they're now predicting an Electoral College landslide. He's even cometitive in Arizona.

The House

From Josh, I am sooo bored. But it matters.
Did I link this already? Glogging while drinkingl.

Voter Suppression

TPM has a roundup. I can't bear to look. Today I talked to a woman whose son, a lawyer, registered to vote online in this state, Washington, and was told he wasn't registered when he arrived to drop off his absentee ballot. He had to go back a second day. Wassup!?

OMG! There's Another Contrarienne

and she's much better than I am. But then, she's also much older.

I will stop calling George Bush a jackass when he stops calling me a terrorist: Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
I will stop calling John McCain an ass when he stops calling Barack Obama a socialist at every dog and pony show on the Straight Talk Express tour.
I will stop calling Sarah Palin a bitch when she stops calling Obama a terrorist sympathizer.  And I will stop calling Sarah Palin a bitch when she stops calling the parts of the country where I don’t live more Pro-American than the part of the country where I do live.    And I will definitely stop calling Sarah Palin a bitch when she stops acting like a bitch.

Okay, so maybe she doesn't exactly seem 82. So, maybe she's not real. Long live the Intertubes!

Socialists At The Gate

Quick, they're coming for your guns God daughters property money. And dogs and cats sleeping together!
Hertzberg at his best.

There hasn’t been so much talk of socialism in an American election since 1920, when Eugene Victor Debs, candidate of the Socialist Party, made his fifth run for President from a cell in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where he was serving a ten-year sentence for opposing the First World War. (Debs got a million votes and was freed the following year by the new Republican President, Warren G. Harding, who immediately invited him to the White House for a friendly visit.)

So Socialistic

Jon Taplin reports on the newest income inequality numbers and remarks, "We cannot continue the fantasy that we are a first world nation if we have a wealth gap that looks like a second world oligarchy."

Palinized!

Wonderful site. Updated daily.

Other Campaigns

The Senate, from Josh

Polls Mean Nothing Dept.

Except when they do, of course. TPM did some battleground research and learned:

Obama is winning by sizable margins in Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, Ohio, and Wisconsin, all states Bush led in four years ago. He's winning by slimmer margins in Florida, Missouri, and Nevada, also states where Bush led.

Nine thousand people in the pouring rain today in Chester, PA

Quote O' Teh Day

From Virginia Heffernan at her NYT blog, on an entirely different topic.

There’s an excerpt from George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” currently posted on ads in some subway cars in New York; it perfectly expresses my squeamishness about perceiving the world too closely. “If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life,” Eliot wrote, “it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

This reminds me for some reason of the fairly recent discovery of the human canabanoid system, which produces THC-like substances to help us forget, else we would go mad from all the sensory input. (It's also there for childbirth.)

Into The Wild With Sarah

$10,000 No-Sex Contest Has, Surprise, No Takers

From Feministing via Dkos:

The contest is sponsored by the Marriage Appreciation Training Uplifting Relationship Education (MATURE) project in Georgia, a federally-funded abstinence program. The group is set to receive $455,510 a year until 2011; the money for the contest was to come from those funds. In an economic crisis, it's pretty awesome to see our federal dollars being so entirely wasted.

Obama has said he'll audit the federal budget with the intention of axing programs that don't work. Let's start here and let the Christianists cry as loud and long as they like.