Rasmussen CA Poll / Latino Voters

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Thursday January 31, 2008 · 12:32 AM PST

2008/01/31 · 00:32

OK, somebody explain this to me.

Obama held a three-point lead among white voters in the state while Clinton had a twenty-seven point lead among Hispanic voters.

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I know that talking about Latino/African-American voting patterns is a potential minefield, and I do not want to set off a "you're a racist scumbag" innuendo-fest, but I'm just struck by this number. A 27-point lead. Why is Hillary Clinton so strongly supported by the Latino community in CA? I'm not saying she should be or she shouldn't be, but why?

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Saturday February 24, 2007 · 3:43 PM PST

2007/02/24 · 15:43

These Kucinich diaries (and no, this is not another one) seem to be showing up the old divide between those who see politics as a practical enterprise, are resigned to the two-party system and want to see Democrats get elected, and those who think that our politics need to be radically transformed and are only willing to support politicians who will further that goal.

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How Pure/Pragmatic Are You? In a general election:

69 votes Vote Now!

How Pure/Pragmatic Are You? In a general election:

I don't vote; it only encourages them

1 vote

I don't vote for major-party candidates on principle

0 votes

I will only vote for a major-party candidate who espouses strong progressive principles, otherwise will vote third-party or not at all

11 votes

I will vote for the major-party candidate if I can stand them, otherwise will vote third party or not at all

23 votes

I will hold my nose and vote for the major-party candidate

29 votes

Huh?

5 votes

Of Bathtubs, Taxes and the Means of Last Resort

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Monday September 05, 2005 · 9:43 PM PDT

2005/09/05 · 21:43

I don't know if I'm trying to channel my outrage or just back up to where I can see something else...like the fucked up way of thinking that allows something like this to happen.

Grover Norquist said, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

That was always an ugly metaphor, but never so much as now, when for the last week we have seen the victims of Mr. Norquist's crusade drowning in the "bathtub" that used to be the city of New Orleans. How very prescient of him. How proud he must be. Read More

B-movies and the B-word

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Monday March 28, 2005 · 11:01 PM PST

2005/03/28 · 23:01

Frank Rich of NYT writes about "The God Racket", featuring Yul Brynner, Tom DeLay and a cast of thousands, coming to a formerly-secular space near you: Read More

Babylon Addendum

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Saturday January 15, 2005 · 11:49 PM PST

2005/01/15 · 23:49

A reader points out in response to a previous post that we're leaving plenty behind in Iraq: depleted uranium, flattened cities, dead people, hate. Fair enough. And that legacy and its consequences will remain, maybe forever. It's all the things we say we didn't intend that will live on. Meanwhile, our grandiose plans--our sense that we could make a people over into the image of ourselves and that they would be happy about it--are collapsing under their own delusional weight. It's everything we said we did intend that will disappear as if it never existed.

And that's as close to a definition of futility as I can think of.

Hope that helps.

Hot Flash Hell

Leaving Babylon

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Saturday January 15, 2005 · 11:44 PM PST

2005/01/15 · 23:44

In the desert of southern Utah, where I live most of the time, we are surrounded by the legacy of ancients; the ruins and rock art are part of the timelessness of a landscape that reveals itself in billion-year-old layers of stone.

There is a fourth dimension of time that you can see and touch, and it makes the desert vivid and strong, more real than mere three-dimensional reality. Maybe my reverence for it comes naturally--I like old things, and I was taught to respect my elders--but it seems to demand it too, unforgiving beauty always ready to remind me of my place in the scheme of things. Read More

Seeing the Light or Post-Baptist Brain Fart

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Thursday December 30, 2004 · 9:35 PM PST

2004/12/30 · 21:35

We report, you decide:

Last Sunday I had the experience of attending a Baptist worship service. I felt like the proverbial fly on the wall, but leaving that aside, it was an interesting picture of a faith and a culture that I don't entirely understand and probably don't want to. Read More

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Rasmussen CA Poll / Latino Voters

Can't We All Just Get Along? (Poll)

Of Bathtubs, Taxes and the Means of Last Resort

B-movies and the B-word

Babylon Addendum

Leaving Babylon

Seeing the Light or Post-Baptist Brain Fart