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I was going to stop posting these things, and for awhile, because of graduate school finals, I had stopped. Soon, however, I’ll be posting more hopeful messages. Focussing on the partisan politics going on in Washington, and the efforts of lobbyists, Skull’n’Bones cabals, space aliens, or the religious right makes you live life through the feverish eyes of those whackos. So, though I thank Joshua Micah Marshall of talkingpointsmemo.com for providing links to fine stories like these tracking the corruption, I can’t help but feel they are only going to be useful to historians. They can point back to articles like these (once they rediscover electricity in the year 2719) and say, this is when the American Empire really began to lose the vestiges of a republic.

Instead of reading these future post mortem missives of the reality based community about the fanatics, I am going to begin looking for items which are non-partisan but helpful and which people can do everyday. I’m sure there’s a metric ton of these types of sites out there already, but that is true for right/left wing vitriolic blogs as well.

Also, maybe the issue for the internet/blogosphere political movment and/or the Democrats to solve is this: what are the core issues around which they can attract voters regardless of party.

In other words, is there a contract with America that the blogosphere can produce and then ask officials running for election to endorse, regardless of party? Maybe this is a way to focus moderates or other voters based on a set of some very straight-forward agenda items. I’ll be eventually opening this up to comments, once I can de-cruft the movable type spammage floodgates.