:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Friday, October 29, 2004 ::

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | New Florida vote scandal feared:

"A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals. "

:: Jim Nichols 10/29/2004 07:14:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Unlimited Individual Recount Donations OK:

"Presidential and congressional candidates can raise unlimited donations to finance recounts as President Bush and Al Gore did for their high-stakes Florida dispute in 2000.

Four of the Federal Election Commission's six members said Thursday that the FEC's long-standing rule on recount fund raising remains in effect, which means federal candidates can set up separate recount funds and finance them with unlimited donations from individual contributors. Candidates cannot accept corporate, union or foreign money. "

:: Jim Nichols 10/28/2004 09:35:00 AM [+] ::
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Daily Endorsement Tally: A Handful of Pickups for Each, but a Bigger Handful for Kerry:

"President Bush is running out of time if he wants to catch Sen. John Kerry -- in newspaper endorsements, at least. Kerry picked up seven new papers on our list today with Bush gaining just three, bringing the tally to 149 to 126 with just six days until Election Day. However, things could change when many procrastinating papers make their picks on Sunday. "

:: Jim Nichols 10/27/2004 04:23:00 PM [+] ::
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I've been marveling all week at the use of blogs as funnels for processing and organizing information on the world wide web. And I just came upon this... The New York Review of Books: A Special Supplement: Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics Which is an old New York Review of Books article on Chomskys Linguistics written by John Searle.

:: Jim Nichols 10/27/2004 06:54:00 AM [+] ::
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The Weakerthans are coming to Sacramento! They are playing Harlows on December 9th. I'm very happy now.

:: Jim Nichols 10/27/2004 04:46:00 AM [+] ::
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on the chumbawamba web site:

"Punk is lodged somewhere between my head and my heart, between
nostalgia and self-delusion. Oh the good times I had growing up in an
atmosphere of kicking, cynical rebellion."

:: Jim Nichols 10/27/2004 04:45:00 AM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - BBC News Boss Slams 'Flag-Wrapped' U.S. Media:

"The head of the BBC's news operations accused U.S. media organizations on Tuesday night of being overly patriotic in their coverage of the lead-up to the Iraq war."

:: Jim Nichols 10/26/2004 09:17:00 PM [+] ::
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2blowhards.com: The Scottish Enlightenment:

"My hunch about why we feel the post-Enlightenment pinch as acutely as we do is that the Enlightenment most of us know is the French Enlightenment. And those French, forever pushing things to absurd extremes. A Frenchman is apparently incapable of saying, 'Hey, cool: Reason!' and then adding it to his repertory. No, he has to believe in it, make a substitute religion of it, live it out to its logical conclusions ... And what does Reason lead to when it's pushed fanatically out as far as it can go? Barrenness, cafe existentialism, suicide, bizarre buildings, Catherine Breillat movies."

:: Jim Nichols 10/25/2004 10:45:00 PM [+] ::
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100 Facts and 1 Opinion: The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration: by Judd Legum "

:: Jim Nichols 10/25/2004 05:42:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - Kerry Leads Bush in Paper Endorsements:

"The polls may be too close to call, but there's one area in which Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry seems to be pulling well ahead of President Bush: newspaper endorsements.

According to an ongoing tally by Editor & Publisher, a newspaper industry magazine, so far 125 newspapers have endorsed Kerry — including at least 35 that had endorsed Bush in 2000 — versus 96 for Bush. Meanwhile, only two newspapers that went for Al Gore in 2000 have endorsed Bush.


What's more, several papers that had backed Bush four years ago are now declining to make any endorsement at all, including several in key states: The Detroit News in Michigan, The Tampa Tribune in Florida, and The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. "

:: Jim Nichols 10/25/2004 05:36:00 PM [+] ::
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"No one gets the relationship they deserve. For some this is a cause of unending resentment, for some people it is the source of unending desire. And for some people the most important thing is that they have found something that doesn't end." -Adam Phillips

:: Jim Nichols 10/24/2004 06:38:00 PM [+] ::
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Yahoo! News - British Paper Ends Bid to Sway U.S. Vote:

"A British newspaper that set off a trans-Atlantic political storm when it urged its readers to write to Ohio voters in an attempt to sway their ballot choice in the U.S. presidential race said Sunday that it had ended the campaign. "

:: Jim Nichols 10/24/2004 06:22:00 PM [+] ::
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