P.L.A. is runnign a contest to determine
the best bloggers of 2002 in various categories. There’s best blogger, best new blog, best series of posts, best single posts, etc. Why not take a look and vote for your favourites in the Kouflax awards? (Apparantely Kouflax was some lefthanded sportsman in one of those obscure American sports derived from Britsh girl games, hence the name of the award.)
Each day I list the blogs new to the linklist. Want to be added? Use the form, Luke. Entry does not guarantee winning. No purchase necessary. Offer void where prohibited. You must either be a fiery liberal spirit or be in the vanguard of the workers revolution to participate. At a pinch we’ll take dedicated left anarchists and the like as well. No wishy washy centrists need apply. The decision of the judges is final.
Progressive Politics, Indian Issues, and Autism Advocacy. By “MB”
Micah Holmquist
A blog focusing on the “war on terror” but with comments on just about anything that interests Micah.
The Sideshow says what I think about Gore dropping out:
It’s not that I’m not willing to give Kerry or Dean a chance. It’s just that I can already see that they have more minuses than Gore and fewer pluses. You can say what you want about needing a nominee who hasn’t been tarnished by years of RNC spin, but you’re in dreamland if you think the GOP can’t make them up about your favorite candidate the same way they did with Gore. Remember, the things they said about Gore were lies. They said a guy who’d been captain of the football team was unable to make friends. They tried to pretend the Internet in no way benefited from Gore’s input. They claimed that a man with a 20-year reputation as a straight- arrow was “a serial liar” with dirty hands. And these were things everyone in Washington knew were not true. They had to make it all up, because they had no head-start with Gore, he didn’t give them anything to attack. So they had to take every good thing about him and turn it into a minus. He was known for his integrity, so they called him a liar. He inspired the lead character in Love Story, so they pretended that he just made it up and he’d been unpopular since grade school. He spent years working to see the piddly little arpanet turned into something we all had access to, so they made fun of his daring to say so and pretended it wasn’t true.
The Bitter Shack of Resentment lets you
know that they executed a man because he was gay:
Amnesty International says he received the death penalty specifically because the prosecutor used anti-gay bias to sway the jury. Here’s what the prosecutor, Robert Schulte (who is still working in the same capcity today) told them as they considered his sentence for a robbery- homicide:
“I want you to think briefly about the man you’re sitting in judgment on and determining what the appropriate punishment should be … I’d like to go through some things that to me depict the true person, what kind of person he is. He is a homosexual. The person you’re sitting in judgment on — disregard Jay Neill. You’re deciding life or death on a person that’s a vowed (sic) homosexual … But these are areas you consider whenever you determine the type of person you’re sitting in judgment on. … The individual’s homosexual.”
Just so you know.
Do you want to know what I think about Ian McEwan’s Amsterdam, Ken MacLeod’s Dark Light or Walter Jon Williams’ Aristoi? Then read my Booklog
Eschaton on “states rights”:
What I hope comes out of this is the recognition and understanding that when a politician in the south goes on about “states’ rights” they are speaking in code that is well understood by a portion of the electorate – black and white. I don’t mean that all supporters of federalism are objectively pro-segregation (Very big of me, no?), just that in certain contexts and from certain people the use of that phrase and related ones is nothing more than a big “FUCK YOU” to the black population. They get it. And, enough of the whites get it too.