My brother, an Iraq I veteran, called to tell me about the new embassy in Iraq. A bit pissed off, he tried to explain to me--not only about the gargantuan size of the thing (the largest embassy on the planet)--but about what he feared it said about the US presence in the Middle East.

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Saw this last night on the Colbert Report and laughed like a goon. For the first time, it appears, white men will get their due as the key electoral demographic in partisan politics.

Enjoy!

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"Shoddy [and] despicable," "specious and gossipy," "cringe-worthy," "banal," consisting of "tabloid trivia," "flat-out repulsive," "embarrassing," "seem[ingly] slanted against [Sen. Barack] Obama," "shameful," and "an outrage."

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A brief but thoughtful discussion of the unfortunate events surrounding the FLDS church in Texas appears in this “Sightings” piece (Note from BlogMistress: link fixed).

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...typing and erasing line after line as I try to find something that doesn't just start and end with cuss words.

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Just this one last thing and then I've got to record my radio show (OK, so I'm stalling while I try to convince myself that what I was going to talk about is still what I want to talk about).

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Robert Reich--Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary, and forty-year friend of the Clintons, has formally endorsed Barack Obama for President.

And when New York Magazine asked him why, he gave a response that more and more people can relate to.

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This is why organizations like the ACLU and Americans United are so important....

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