For Your Weekend Reading Pleasure

• John Metcalfe, Washington City Paper: Mace in the Hole
• Brendan O'Neill, Spiked: Brad, Angelina, and the Rise of 'Celebrity Colonialism'
• Creek Running North: The All-time Top Number One Absolutely Most Conservative Rock and Roll Song of All Time
• What Do I Know?: Warning: Election Snatchers Are Known to Operate in this Area
• Daniel Galvin, New York Times: How To Grow a Democratic Majority
• The Official Ramen Homepage: Jailhouse Ramen Pizza [via Ilyka]
• Faster Than the World: Punk Rock, Fast Cars and ........World Cup?
• Dennis Perrin, City Pages (Twin Cities): The Blogger at War [Retro Lileks Edition!]
• Bats Left Throws Right: Oh, Come On NOW
• Republic of T: It's Us
• Mike Miliard, Boston Phoenix: Wet, Hot American Summer
• Hugo Schwyzer: "OKOP", "NOKOP" and Oscar: a long post about class, family, and pride
• One Good Thing: Birth of a Salesman
• James Wolcott: It's Only a Movie, Ingrid
• Porkopolis: Next Step for Abortion Ban
• Arkansas Blog: Here We Go
• Stop the Spirit of Zossen: 2 Minutes to Midnight
• Busqueda Permanente: De a Poquito... [via Liz Henry]

Comments

[Terrance]

Thanks for the link!

[eRobin]

"Using detailed voter lists, phone banks and grass-roots workers, Republicans began to collect wins — at the mayoral, state legislative and, eventually, the gubernatorial and Congressional levels."

This is how you win every election, not just the down-ballot ones. That's what Howard Dean knows. Ah, I love Howard Dean :)

Rahm Emmanuel thinks that you lose power by giving it away when the opposite is true.