Hold Fast

Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake and Erick Erickson of RedState have a very interesting discussion of what’s going on in Tibet and China on Bloggingheads TV. Erickson argues that Bush should boycott the Olympics, while Jane pushes for action ahead of that, including efforts to ensure that China does not violently crack down in Tibet in […]

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My former co-blogger and close friend Austin has started blogging again. His new tumblr blog is called Lax Scrutiny and I highly recommend it. It’s mostly a law blog, but includes Austin’s musings on food and coffee and pictures of an adorable pup named Murphy.

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Apologies for posting twice on Joe Lieberman in the same day, but Markos Moulitsas commissioned another poll in CT on the 2006 Senate race and how Connecticut voters think about their choices today.
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 3/31-4/2. Regular voters. MoE 4% (9/10-12/2007 results)
If you could vote again for U.S. Senate, would you vote for […]

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Brett Schenker, the Dodd campaign’s database and social networking guru, has started a new blog called Graphic Policy. It’s about the recent growth in policy and politics in graphic novels and comic books. I grew up reading a lot of Marvel comics, though I doubt I’ve bought one in the last 12 years. It looks […]

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Ari Melber has a withering review of the internet’s most famous culprit of sock puppetry, Lee Siegel. This passage stands out as an apt summation of Melber’s whole piece.
By combining the fact-free observations of a futurist pundit and the hypocritical tirades of a sinful preacher, Siegel’s book is as unreliable as it is insufferable. Ironically, […]

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Photo by NTodd 
Yesterday I attended EschaCon 08 in Philadelphia. I had a great time and want to commend the organizers for putting on a really successful conference. What made EschaCon special was its intimate nature. It looked like there were about 100 people at the conference and there was only one panel discussion taking place […]

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Chris Bowers at Open Left writes about what the netroots is and is not.
Jerome Armstrong (emphasis in orginal):
Now, I thought the 2003-2006 netroots was all about the ‘fighting dems’ that invigorated the Democratic Party with a strong sense of partisanship and Howard Dean’s “Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party” candidacy.
The “netroots” is not about one […]

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It seems in in a somewhat circumspect mood today and am finding other people similarly reflective on the state of affairs in left blogistan. Or rather, I’m at least down to post some sober perspectives this morning. So…take it away Athenae.
The real reason I’m not in a state of panic about the loss of civilization […]

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Thers opens up a can of whoopass on what matters in our support for candidacies and our pursuit of a government that provides for the needs of the citizenry.
And this is not just a problem for us Liberal Fascists. Look at how long the anti-abortion maniacs prayed and organized and voted, and then they finally […]

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Eric Boehlert of Media Matters has a great piece about how progressive blogs, lead by FireDogLake, orchestrated a massive push back on an Associated Press story by Nedra Pickler of Republican smear attacks on Barack Obama.
What prompted the organized outpouring of angst last week against the AP was when the website Firedoglake took action, embraced […]

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