Continuing to become a link blog
Actually, this is serious. Check this out: Republican Provision to Outsource Torture of Suspects. Which, in fact, is against international law, not to mention unconstitutional. I got the link from Unfogged.
Which brings me to something else I've been meaning to blog. Cleis and I have this plan where, before the election, we want to gather a ton of links--hard evidence stuff, not just lefty opinionating--on what, exactly, the Bush administration has been doing. My own hangup is shit like the Global Gag Rule and women's reproductive stuff; the torture crap is obviously bad (can we just link Seymour Hersh's entire damn book? Probably not, but the New Yorker articles are available online), Scott Ritter and Hans Blix damn well did say that there weren't WMD's before the war, which makes all the mealymouthed apologizing by leftist commentators and the NYT and WP just so much self-serving bullshit, and etc.
I'm sick of the press coverage of the fucking Swift boat bullshit, and I know that there are blogs out there, real political blogs, that have all the evidence people need, but it can't hurt, damnit, if we entertainment & fun blogs also collect and present stuff. And, frankly, I would just find it helpful to have a big ass collection of very specific hard evidence to point to when I try to convince people at the 11th hour to vote for Kerry, damnit. I'm as guilty as anyone (more guilty, probably) of resorting to fairly content-free polemic on the subject of the current administration and/or saying, "they're doing x, y, and z" (to which the response is always, "where's your evidence?"), but as a matter of fact I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who are too smart to be swayed by rhetoric, but who are still dithering over whether they're going to vote for Bush, and I want to hand them a sheaf of articles and say, "here's evidence, read this."
We had this idea that we could actually gather stuff and then anyone who wants to could post it, sort of a last-ditch, "my god, please don't let's ruin this country" meme.
And yes, I know this is anti-Bush and not pro-Kerry. At this point I really would vote for the proverbial yellow dog. But if people want to take the pro-Kerry angle, feel free to send things along on that too. Either comment, or post it in your own blog and then link back to me and/or Cleis.
Anyone? Bueller?
Which brings me to something else I've been meaning to blog. Cleis and I have this plan where, before the election, we want to gather a ton of links--hard evidence stuff, not just lefty opinionating--on what, exactly, the Bush administration has been doing. My own hangup is shit like the Global Gag Rule and women's reproductive stuff; the torture crap is obviously bad (can we just link Seymour Hersh's entire damn book? Probably not, but the New Yorker articles are available online), Scott Ritter and Hans Blix damn well did say that there weren't WMD's before the war, which makes all the mealymouthed apologizing by leftist commentators and the NYT and WP just so much self-serving bullshit, and etc.
I'm sick of the press coverage of the fucking Swift boat bullshit, and I know that there are blogs out there, real political blogs, that have all the evidence people need, but it can't hurt, damnit, if we entertainment & fun blogs also collect and present stuff. And, frankly, I would just find it helpful to have a big ass collection of very specific hard evidence to point to when I try to convince people at the 11th hour to vote for Kerry, damnit. I'm as guilty as anyone (more guilty, probably) of resorting to fairly content-free polemic on the subject of the current administration and/or saying, "they're doing x, y, and z" (to which the response is always, "where's your evidence?"), but as a matter of fact I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who are too smart to be swayed by rhetoric, but who are still dithering over whether they're going to vote for Bush, and I want to hand them a sheaf of articles and say, "here's evidence, read this."
We had this idea that we could actually gather stuff and then anyone who wants to could post it, sort of a last-ditch, "my god, please don't let's ruin this country" meme.
And yes, I know this is anti-Bush and not pro-Kerry. At this point I really would vote for the proverbial yellow dog. But if people want to take the pro-Kerry angle, feel free to send things along on that too. Either comment, or post it in your own blog and then link back to me and/or Cleis.
Anyone? Bueller?
