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Well, since my last post generated so much discussion, I thought I'd switch it up a bit and get back to my old ways of posting: More links! Less substance!

This copyeditor-related podcast is humorous in a slightly scary way (although it could be a fake, so fair warning).

So there's this nut Duncan Hunter (R-Ca.) who's running for President. (Funny already, right?) I saw one of his ads here in Iowa and the gist of it was he was going to hunt down dem Mexicans himself. Or something. Anyway, he's got this PAC called "Peace Through Strength," which I was going to mock for being Orwellian, but apparently that phrase is unironically attributed to He Whose Name Must Not Be Mentioned But Is Unfathomably Worshiped. So, not much to say there. The rest of the GOP pres-wannabes are lining up to showcase their authoritarian bona fides, John McCain by putting up a fascist chic website and Rudy Giuliani by, well, being himself.

At least a few people are standing up to He Whose Name Must Not Blah Blah Blah.

To understand the future we must look to the past.

Al Franken is framing his Senate race pretty well up north.

Check out this site for some moving photojournalism. (Note the 1st place Portrait photo.)

Count me all-in for this movement. Please, nytimes.com, please. Do it for the kids.

This seems somehow wrong.

It is a moral outrage that we still don't have universal health coverage in this country. I mean, politics is all well and good and interesting for some of us, but the policy implications of right-wingers when it comes to health care are insanely destructive to millions of people. Seriously, if I believed in hell, I'd want them to go rot in it (...uh, the right-wingers, not the people without health care).

Speaking of, like, right-wingers and hell and such, here's a Lenten-themed quote to ponder.

Bad news here. I wonder what counts as "addiction"....

Courtesy of my favorite blogger (a lefty-peacey progressive who is a fan of indie music and the NBA), we have some breaking news: the Bush administration's diplomacy sucks.

OK. That felt good. More later.