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Our reading suggestions for the rest of the day:
We highly recommend Avedon Carol on war stuff over at The Sideshow, Jim Capozzola's Rittenhouse Review tribute to Paul Wellstone, and Atrios and Lisa English's Ruminate This on just about everything.
Eric at The Hamster quotes the best of the progressive web today (as he does everyday), especially Ralph Neas on the Bush judicial nominees, Eric Alterman who is back from Europe, and Joe Conasen. My DD is doing a great job with election coverage and Skippy has the links to the pros and cons on ballistic fingerprinting.
Congrats to Daily Kos who has made his site meter public and had over 4,000 hits yesterday, and has started a second weblog chronicling his wife's pregnancy.
We are on our way home and will resume posting late tonight or tomorrow. LA was wonderful after our experience in Minn./Saint Paul last Friday. The only downside was lack of dsl or wireless so we couldn't post, surf around or even update our newsfeed as we would have liked.
We'll post on the swearing in of LA Police Chief Bill Bratton and the celebratory reception later, just wanted you all to know we have missed reading our favorite blogs, and thanks to Skippy for sticking up for us on the "editorial we" in the comments to our Wellstone post and thanks also to Eric Alterman for linking to it. We've had a lot of referrals from Liberal Oasis and Atrios, too.
We didn't disappear--we're in Minneapolis about to give a talk to criminal defense lawyers on....Representing the Despised Defendant in the Post-9/11 World. Could anything be more apt today given yesterday's arrests in the sniper case?
We're also over at Altercation today, guest-hosting Slacker Friday. Hope you enjoy it, Eric's back Monday. We'll be back here tonight. And on Fox News discussing the Sniper arrests Saturday at 5:30 p.m. ET.
In case you were wondering what the blogs covering the upcoming elections were going to do after the November 5 elections, here is Daily Kos's plan:
"After the election I will also be launching a collaborative blog called the Political State Report, featuring "correspondents" writing about political developments in their home states. My goal is to get writers from both the left and the right to cover all 50 states. If you might be interested in participating, please let me know."
Political Wire "invited some of the best political weblogs to be part of a new Political Wire feature called Blog Scan. This is one of the fastest ways to see what the political blogosphere is writing about."
TalkLeft is proud to be included in a group that includes such politically astute bloggers as Daily Kos and MyDD. Thanks to Taegan Goddard for setting this up. We are going to add it to our blogroll.
Salon staff writer Eric Boehlert is guest hosting Eric Alterman's Altercation today and he's good!
We'll be back there Friday filling in for Eric with another "Slacker Friday"-- a mix of our thoughts and readers' letters. Eric will be back Monday, unless he's decided to become an ex-pat -- unlikely, he is way too much a New Yorker.
We are guest hosting the vacationing Eric Alterman's MSNBC weblog Altercation today. It's Slacker Friday over there, meaning the column is mostly reprinting selected letters received from readers during the week. He sure does get a lot of mail.
The column will be up around 5 pm EST and stay up through the weekend.
Check out the new TAPPED weblog. They've moved to Movable Type and it looks so much better. They've added a relatively short list of blogs on the right hand side, including TalkLeft and many of our favorites, like Atrios, Daily Kos, Rittenhouse, Maxspeak, Matt Yglesias, Cooped Up and MyDD, and of course, Law Professor Glenn Reynolds's InstaPundit and Eric Alterman's Altercation, which were our role models and inspiration in revamping TalkLeft into a blog.
Tapped has a new url and would like you to update your bookmarks.
The vacationing Eric Alterman, author of MSNBC's weblog Altercation and Nation columnist, writes in from Paris today about Bruce Springsteen's concert in Paris last night.
"The highlight for me, however, was the searing “Born in the USA,” restored to its rock ‘n roll roots and placed — as far as one could tell — as a warning against war in Iraq. But it also seemed to be a cry of patriotic solidarity with the men and women about to have their lives ended — or at least badly messed up there. Perhaps this is conjecture on my part.
"Springsteen’s comments have been limited to decrying the loss of civil liberties attendant with Attorney General John Ashcroft’s exploitation of the war on terrorism. But nobody in Paris seems to support going to war, and America is not terribly popular here now for a whole set of reasonable and a few unreasonable reasons."
"Yet, I dunno, 18,000 or so French people were thrusting their fists in the air singing “Born in the USA” and appearing — in some inexplicable fashion — to mean it with all their hearts."
Altercation will have a guest host every day until Eric's return on October 28. We will be doing Fridays, including his famous "slacker friday" where selected responses from readers to his columns are posted. Your mail should go to alterlinks@aol.com.
If you disagree with Bush's war policy or his and Ashcroft's erosion of our civil liberties, or if you care about who sits on the Supreme Court and determines the law that will apply to your children as they grow into adulthood, the best way to show it is by voting for democratic candidates for the House and Senate. And by financially supporting the candidates in the closest races, like Tom Strickland of Colorado, so they can afford to run a final tv media blitz.
We're taking advantage of the three day holiday weekend and will be lightly and only sporadically posting. You can read some of our earlier posts by clicking on the subject archives or searching for a particular topic. We also recommend you visit the blogs we've mentioned on the right. If we've missed some good ones you think should be listed, let us know.
Many thanks to South Knox Bubba for its praise of TalkLeft's "updates on the latest assaults against our constitution and civil rights" and our Sunday CNN discussion of the Buffalo Six, enemy combatants and military tribunals.
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