Late Night Reads


Late Night Reading

The Ten Commandments by David Horsey. Via Avedon Carol.
Will the folks of Alabama be rational at the polls on September 9? Steven at Poliblogger reviews their options. Via Outside the Beltway.
A number of folks have commented on bush’s speach: Left I on the News, Answer, Bilmon, Idols of the Marketplaceand RonK at the Daily Kos. I’m sure there are many more. Read the speach, read the commentary, you decide.
Good Night!


Late Night Reading

Beldar gives kudos to left-of-center blogger’s writings on the Texas redistricting ruckus.
Lisa ruminates on Big Lies.
Walter begins exploring the idea of the black republican.
Laurence Lessig finds the values of our time wanting:

So defraud Californians of $9 billion, pay $1 million. But develop a new technology to make it easier for people to get access to music that they have presumptively purchased: pay more than $54 million.
Such are the values of our time.

Good Night!


Late Night Reading

The Invisible Adjunct reviews Kipnis, Against Love, and finds her “firmly on the side of the labor and managerial practices of corporate America”.
Fox’s fair and balanced coverage of the California gubernatorial debate presented by Body and Soul.
Digby has a lot of good stuff over the last couple days, but doesn’t he always. Since the EPA whitewash and the Saudi-bin Laden evacuation flight should not be swept under the table go read this post first.
Good Night!


Late Night Reading

Kevin Drum wonders why, since the bushies are executing a Democratic foreign policy, we didn’t elect a Democrat in the first place.
Is democracy possible in Egypt? Tarek Heggy discusses this in a guest appearance at Winds of Change.
Alex, A List a Day, continues to provide links to odd and not so odd lists…always good for some diversion. Try out Fametracker’s (who are they??) list of the 10 least essential fall movies of 2003.
And, over at Open Source Politics, Mark Kleiman has a proposal for Controlling Teen Drinking in an Age of Terror.
Good Night!