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Strange bedfellows

Having trouble finding that certain someone? Can't choose between Judeo-Christian monotheism and paganistic polytheism? Christian Cupid sounds like the service for you! (I've decided not to link to them. They'd like that too much. And I don't want you to use their servie.)

Moonlighting

I've been doing some posting at Nacho.org, a community blog populated by some friends of mine. In the future, when I post something over there, I'll just put a link over here. This will tend to be posts in the "cool links" category.

Some recent posts:

Gadzooks!
Be Prescared
“Tribal Sovereignty means that, it’s sovereign.”

A fine mess

What do you get when you cross a mouthful of high-fiber cereal (the kind that takes 40 chews before you can swallow) and two Sammy Sosa-calibre sneezes? I found out this morning, and let me tell you, it's not pretty.

Posted elsewhere: Real Americans spell it Catchup.

From Paul Krugman's Op-ed Triumph of the Trivial in the New York Times (registration required):

Under the headline "Voters Want Specifics From Kerry," The Washington Post recently quoted a voter demanding that John Kerry and John Edwards talk about "what they plan on doing about health care for middle-income or lower-income people. I have to face the fact that I will never be able to have health insurance, the way things are now. And these millionaires don't seem to address that."

Mr. Kerry proposes spending $650 billion extending health insurance to lower- and middle-income families. Whether you approve or not, you can't say he hasn't addressed the issue. Why hasn't this voter heard about it?

And further along:

Notice the voter's reference to "these millionaires." A Columbia Journalism Review Web site called campaigndesk.org, says its analysis "reveals a press prone to needlessly introduce Senators Kerry and Edwards and Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, as millionaires or billionaires, without similar labels for President Bush or Vice President Cheney."

As the site points out, the Bush campaign has been "hammering away with talking points casting Kerry as out of the mainstream because of his wealth, hoping to influence press coverage." The campaign isn't claiming that Mr. Kerry's policies favor the rich - they manifestly don't, while Mr. Bush's manifestly do. Instead, we're supposed to dislike Mr. Kerry simply because he's wealthy (and not notice that his opponent is, too).