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                         Countering terror in New York
                           
                 
                         
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                         Blind faith
                           
                 
                         
                         SF Hall of Fame, redux
                           
                 
                         
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    PHASE I  
        Drum: Political Animal  
                    Showdown 06  
        Daily Kos  
        Talking Points Memo  
                    TPM-pire  : Cafe   / Docket  
                    Muckraker   / Election Central  
                    Sergant: Horse's Mouth  
        Atrios: Eschaton  
 
    PHASE II  
        Billmon: Whiskey Bar  
        Digby: Hullabaloo  
        Glenn Greenwald  
        Publius: Legal Fiction  
 
        MyDD  
                    Election Wire   / 
              Breaking Blue  
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        Cursor: 2006 Midterm  
 
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        A Rational Being  
        Gelwan: Follow Me Here  
        Scoville: The Vanity Press  
 
    PHASE III  
        Roger Ailes  
        Michael Berube  
        Carpetbagger Report  
        Clemons: Washington Note  
        Brad DeLong  
        firedoglake  
        The Huffington Post  
        Lawyers, Guns and Money  
        David Neiwert: Orcinus  
        The Next Hurrah  
        Rittenhouse Review  
        Think Progress  
 
    PHASING IN?  
        alien & sedition  
        American Footprints  
        Bag News Notes  
        BTC News  
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        Bouphonia  
        Cox: Political Bite  
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        Duss: What is the war?  
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        e pluribus media  
        Feldman: Frameshop  
        Foreign Policy Passport  
        Galt: Asymmetrical Information  
        Bob Geiger  
        Malcolm Gladwell  
        Bob Harris  
        In This Moment  
        Mark My Words  
        My Left Wing  
        Obsidian Wings  
        George Packer: Interesting Times  
        P!  
        Political Cortex  
        Progressive Historians  
        Ranelli Rants  
        Rosenberg: Patterns that Connect  
        Rozius  
        Sadly, No!  
        Silber: Once upon a time  
        Smart Mass, Dumb Mass  
        Truthdig  
        Unspun  
 
    PHASER ON STUN  
        American Street  
        Aravosis: AmericaBlog  
        Brian Beutler  
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        Joe Conason  
        Corn: Bush Lies  
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        Daou: The Grit  
        Steve Gilliard  
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         The greatest good for the greatest number, with dignity for all.  
           
	
	 
	 
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        War on Corporate Evil  
        Michael Weber  
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         ACLU of Pennsylvania weblog  
         Trial transcripts  
         Court website  
         NCSE KvD resources  
         Wikipedia: KvD  
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         AAAS evolution resources  
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         CSICOP: Creation/ID Watch  
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         HOUSE  
Democrats 230   (+27) - Republicans 205 
Actual:   
Democrats 233   (+30) - Republicans 201 - TBD 1 [FL-13]   
SENATE  
Democrats 50 (+5) - Republicans 50 
Actual:  
Democrats 51   (+6) - Republicans 49 
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         Never a bridesmaid... 
         ...and never a bride, either!!  
           
	 
	 
	what I've been reading  
	 
	 
	
         
         
         
             
 
         
             
 
         
             
 
         
             
 
  
	
	 
	 
	bush & company are...  
	 
	 
	
         absolutist 
         aggresive 
         anti-Constitutional 
         anti-intellectual 
         arrogant 
         authoritarian 
         blame-placers 
         blameworthy 
         blinkered 
         buckpassers 
         calculating 
         class warriors 
         clueless 
         compassionless 
         con artists 
         conniving 
         conscienceless 
         conspiratorial 
         corrupt 
         craven 
         criminal 
         crooked 
         culpable 
         damaging 
         dangerous 
         deadly 
         debased 
         deceitful 
         delusional 
         despotic 
         destructive 
         devious 
         disconnected 
         dishonorable 
         dishonest 
         disingenuous 
         disrespectful 
         dogmatic 
         doomed 
         fanatical 
         fantasists 
         felonious 
         hateful 
         heinous 
         hostile to science 
         hypocritical 
         ideologues 
         ignorant 
         immoral 
         incompetent 
         indifferent 
         inflexible 
         insensitive 
         insincere 
         irrational 
         isolated 
         kleptocratic 
         lacking in empathy 
         lacking in public spirit 
         liars 
         mendacious 
         misleading 
         mistrustful 
         non-rational 
         not candid 
         not "reality-based" 
         not trustworthy 
         oblivious 
         oligarchic 
         opportunistic 
         out of control 
         pernicious 
         perverse 
         philistine 
         plutocratic 
         prevaricating 
         propagandists 
         rapacious 
         relentless 
         reprehensible 
         rigid 
         scandalous 
         schemers 
         selfish 
         secretive 
         shameless 
         sleazy 
         tricky 
         unAmerican 
         uncaring 
         uncivil 
         uncompromising 
         unconstitutional 
         undemocratic 
         unethical 
         unpopular 
         unprincipled 
         unrealistic 
         unreliable 
         unrepresentative 
         unscientific 
         unscrupulous 
         unsympathetic 
         venal 
         vile 
         virtueless 
         warmongers 
         wicked 
         without integrity 
         wrong-headed 
Thanks to: Breeze, Chuck, Ivan Raikov, Kaiju, Kathy, Roger, Shirley, S.M. Dixon 
 
           
	
	 
	 
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         Elliott Abrams 
         Steven Abrams (Kansas BofE) 
         David Addington 
         Howard Fieldstead Ahmanson 
         Roger Ailes (FNC) 
         John Ashcroft 
         Bob Bennett 
         William Bennett 
         Joe Biden 
         John Bolton 
         Alan Bonsell (Dover BofE) 
         Pat Buchanan 
         Bill Buckingham (Dover BofE) 
         George W. Bush 
         Saxby Chambliss 
         Bruce Chapman (DI) 
         Dick Cheney 
         Lynne Cheney 
         Richard Cohen 
         The Coors Family 
         Ann Coulter 
         Michael Crichton 
         Lanny Davis 
         Tom DeLay 
         William A. Dembski 
         James Dobson 
         Leonard Downie (WaPo) 
         Dinesh D’Souza 
         Gregg Easterbrook 
         Jerry Falwell 
         Douglas Feith 
         Arthur Finkelstein 
         Bill Frist 
         George Gilder 
         Newt Gingrich 
         John Gibson (FNC) 
         Alberto Gonzalez 
         Rudolph Giuliani 
         Sean Hannity 
         Katherine Harris 
         Fred Hiatt (WaPo) 
         Christopher Hitchens 
         David Horowitz 
         Don Imus 
         James F. Inhofe 
         Jesse Jackson 
         Philip E. Johnson 
         Daryn Kagan 
         Joe Klein 
         Phil Kline 
         Ron Klink 
         William Kristol 
         Ken Lay 
         Joe Lieberman 
         Rush Limbaugh 
         Trent Lott 
         Frank Luntz 
 
 
"American Fundamentalists" 
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         Chris Matthews 
         Mitch McConnell 
         Stephen C. Meyer (DI) 
         Judith Miller (ex-NYT) 
         Zell Miller 
         Tom Monaghan 
         Sun Myung Moon 
         Roy Moore 
         Dick Morris 
         Rupert Murdoch 
         Ralph Nader 
         John Negroponte 
         Grover Norquist 
         Robert Novak 
         Ted Olson 
         Elspeth Reeve (TNR) 
         Bill O'Reilly 
         Martin Peretz (TNR) 
         Richard Perle 
         Ramesh Ponnuru 
         Ralph Reed 
         Pat Robertson 
         Karl Rove 
         Tim Russert 
         Rick Santorum 
         Richard Mellon Scaife 
         Antonin Scalia 
         Joe Scarborough 
         Susan Schmidt (WaPo) 
         Bill Schneider 
         Al Sharpton 
         Ron Silver 
         John Solomon (WaPo) 
         Margaret Spellings 
         Kenneth Starr 
         Randall Terry 
         Clarence Thomas 
         Richard Thompson (TMLC) 
         Donald Trump 
         Richard Viguere 
         Donald Wildmon 
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         Bob Woodward (WaPo) 
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         All the fine sites I've 
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         Be sure to visit them all!!  
           
	 
	 
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Philip K. Dick 
Kevin Drum 
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David Gordon 
Stephen Jay Gould 
Dashiell Hammett 
"The Harder They Come" 
Robert Heinlein 
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Frank Herbert 
Douglas Hofstadter 
Bill James 
Gene Kelly 
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Jefferson Airplane 
Ursula K. LeGuin 
The Marx Brothers 
John McPhee 
Harry Partch 
Michael C. Penta 
Monty Python 
Orbital 
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger 
"The Prisoner" 
"The Red Shoes" 
Steve Reich 
Terry Riley 
Oliver Sacks 
Erik Satie 
"Singin' in the Rain" 
Stephen Sondheim 
The Specials 
Morton Subotnick 
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	Comments Bullshit, trolling, unthinking knee-jerk dogmatism and the drivel of idiots will be ruthlessly deleted and the posters banned. Entertaining, interesting, intelligent, informed and informative comments will always be welcome, even when I disagree with them. I am the sole judge of which of these qualities pertains.  
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Corrections I correct typos and other simple errors of grammar, syntax, style and presentation in my posts after the fact without necessarily posting notification of the change. Substantive textual changes, especially reversals or major corrections, will be noted in an "Update" or a footnote. Also, illustrations may be added to entries after their initial publication. 
          
	
	 
	 
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         unfutz: toiling in almost complete obscurity for almost 1500  days  
           
	 
	 
	2005 koufax awards  
	 
	 
	
 
         BEST BLOG (NON-PRO)  
 
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         *Winners  * 
 
           
	 
	 
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         Best Blog: Daily Kos  
         Pro Blog: Talking Points Memo  
         Writing: Hullabaloo  
         Post:"If America Were Iraq, What Would it be Like?"   (Juan Cole) 
         Series (tie):"The Rise of Pseudo-Fascism"   (David Neiwert) and  
         "Cheers and Jeers"   (Bill at dKos) 
         Group Blog: MyDD  
         Humorous Blog: Jesus' General  
         Expert Blog: Informed Comment  
         Single Issue Blog (tie): TalkLeft  
         and  Grits for Breakfast  
         New Blog: Mouse Words  
         Deserving of Wider Recognition: Suburban Guerrilla  
         Commenter: Meteor Blades  
         More info: Wampum   
	
	 
	 
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        Alas, A Blog  
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        *Talking Points Memo  
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	If you read unfutz  at least once a week, without fail, your teeth will be whiter and your love life more satisfying.
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 (You might want to keep a watch on me, though, just to avoid the syrup ending up on your feet and the pancakes on your forehead.)
 Finally, on a more mundane level, since I don't believe that anyone actually reads this stuff, I make this offer: I'll give five bucks to the first person who contacts me and asks for it -- and, believe me, right now five bucks might as well be five hundred, so this is no trivial offer.  
	
	 
	 
	 
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