Monday, September 22, 2003

Clark Leads Bush In CNN Poll - No, Really Ok, can everyone start taking Clark seriously now? He's got a strong lead with 22% in the latest CNN poll. That's got to count for something, right? And did I mention that he leads Bush 49 to 46 in this poll, too? For comment on this, see Kos, and I'm sure more to come...
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Matthew Ygelsias On Taxes vs. Spending Cuts To Pay For Military Cut Away. Steve Verdon wants to know why I support rolling back tax cuts in order to pay for a bigger military instead of saying: Okay we need to rearrange our priorities and cut some spending here, here and here" pointing... [Matthew Yglesias] Yglesias nails it here: The primary problem facing America today is: A: The schools are bad. B: Rich people don't have enough money My answer is "A" and I'd be very interested to here Steve justify "B."

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Breyer On Mandatory Minimums, Election 2000 Justice Breyer Raps Mandatory Minimums. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer denounced mandatory minimum sentences yesterday during a talk in Boston. Mandatory minimum sentences passed... [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime] In the same speech, he also regretted the Supreme Court's role in the '00 election...not that we couldn't have guessed that already, but it's still nice to see.

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Continuing proof of why the Red Sox rule - their primary owner, John Henry, has given gobs of money to the Democratic Party and its candidates. Not only is he a truly fantastic owner, he's got good politics! I'm in heaven! =)
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"Clark's Bad! Me Hate Him!" - The Right I keep seeing more and more loony flailing about Clark by the right - the latest is Robert Novak freaking out about the Clark-Mladic picture. Oh no! Clark, a man whose job was to negotiate between all the sides, even the monsters, being friendly with a monster whose trust he must gain! How HORRIBLE! Um, what was that I was saying again?
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More on Quicksilver Bruce on my plans to read Quicksilver in one day... You're mad, man! I cannot begin to imagine doing that with Cryptonomicon -- well, I can a little. It's kind of a nice thought, now that I'm at it. This book is like half again as long, though. But sounds like you'll be done with it before I lay hands on my copy. Don't give unmarked SPOILERS, okay? [A blog doesn't need a clever name] Yup, I am insane. I don't expect this to be the most thorough reading ever...and yeah, it's going to be hard to get through 900+ pages in one day. I think I can pull off 80-100 pages an hour of fast reading - picking up the majority of the contents. So we're looking at 9 to 12 hours...that's doable. And I promise, no unmarked spoilers - I AM planning to live-blog a review as I go, but I'll spoiler-block everything I say. The really amazing thing about Quicksilver is that the next book in the cycle comes out in six months - and the final part of the cycle six months later. Wow. No wonder it's been 4 years since Crypto...Stephenson's written something like 3,000 pages in the meantime.

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