Late Night Reads
The one year (52nd) edition of the Carnival of the Vanities is up at Silfray Hraka the founding site.
Plenty of reading here.
Good Night!
Daily Archives: September 17, 2003
It May Make Your Day
Kevin at Wizbang provides a nice tutorial for those who want to be instalanched.
You can pretty much apply the whole thing to your relationship with anyone you want to link or blogroll you.
Via Outside the Beltway.
Damage Limits
The Texas voters elected bush governor, twice, so it should not surprise anyone that they are willing to vote away their rights:
Other states have passed similar limits on medical malpractice awards, but Texas has now taken the process one giant step further. The initiative
extends the limits on malpractice awards across the board for lawsuits that could cover polluters, toxic dumpers, unsafe apartment buildings, hazardous workplaces or dangerous products.
Well, at least some of the Texas voters did this:
…Prop 12 passed with (last time I checked) 1% of the vote. The talking heads on the local news was very impressed with a 19% turn out (they had expected only 16%) for the vote. All I can say is if 19% voter turn out is a cause for excitement then our democracy is more threatened than I thought.
There is a lot of material and links in the Confined Space post and there is more over at A Skeptical Blog including here.
Via Nathan Newman.
Arnold Scores
Arnold Scharzenegger received a major endorsement today. He seems to be working hard to offer something to everyone….
Via Donald Sensing.
bush as saddam
Seems the pres wants to get his picture out (yea, I know the article says that some admin dude requested the pictures) but:
State Department types were taken aback last week to find that a longtime diplomatic photo exhibit along a busy corridor to the cafeteria had been taken down. The two dozen mostly grainy black and white shots were a historic progression of great diplomatic moments, sources recalled.
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Then they were gone. And what was put up in their place? What else? A George W. Bush family album montage of 21 large photos of the president as diplomat. … There’s one of Bush meeting in happier days with his very good friend Jacques Chirac, president of France, and another with his even better friend, Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany.
You go read the article and decide whether the replacements are an improvement.
I understand that folks at all levels of the political ladder have a driving need to know their picture is everywhere. Marketing you know.
I wonder how soon the statues will start going up.
Via digby.