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http://twofish.wordpress.com [ Twofish’s Blog] out of a twenty minute rant.  It’s a basic limitation of the television medium that they have to do that, but the limitsin broadcasting means that you have to focus in the strange, simple, and emotional, rather than complex, ordinary, and rational.  This has had bad and sometimes destructive results on political discourse, because that happens is that conversations get narrowed to dueling sound bites.

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Dilbertblog.typepad.com[Dilbertblog.typepad.com] The Dilbert Blog: Confirmation Bias: (Though I'll grant you a pair of dueling sect-segregated caliphates centered on, perhaps, Iran and Saudi Arabia is conceivable.) So Islamism, in my opinion is not a common ideal except in its most abstract form, similar to the way the US and Chinese governments both claim to "serve the people," yet act drastically different because they interpret that drastically differently. It's more of a symbol that resonates well with the street, but not well enough to overcome the often vast practical differences of opinion between the factions.

[Therestisnoise.com] Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Blog: Spring 05: The news that the great Lorraine ”” whose singing in Theodora might be the most astonishing achievement of her astonishing career ”” has withdrawn from the premiere performances of John Adams' Doctor Atomic, in San Francisco, has occasioned wailings of lamentation in some quarters. But Kristine Jepson, who sang excellently in Rosenkavalier at the Met this spring, should have the voice and acting chops for the role of Kitty Oppenheimer.

http://www.participate.net [Participate.net] gaboracs's blog: Matsumura called on his volunteers across the state, by then 10,000 by his own count, to accelerate the pace of signature gathering to avoid a special election. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The goal had been to gather the required 1,040,000 qualified signatures in the months of February and March, allowing the recall election to have coincided with the June Primaries.  </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The actual number of signatures gathered was not disclosed but now, just three months before the November elections, the web site of the Recall Arnold campaign is twisting in the wind like a burned flag flying at half mast with nothing new since July 23rd, yet some new information surely must surface by the 15th of August this year as the site promises. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Dr. Matsumura said, &#39;The recall campaign had done a lot of good.

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