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by von General Clark had a strong appearance on Meet the Press yesterday. Russ asked the right questions, and Clark mostly answered them the right way. I’m increasingly likely to support Clark over Bush, should he make it past the primaries. Unfortunately, my saying so may be the kiss of death for Clark, because my … Read more

Two unrelated items: 1. This young marine and adopted New Yorker is just a wonderful writer. Read it. 2. I watched Howard Dean’s speech at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Dinner last night (right after they auctioned off Tom Harkin’s tie and passed around buckets to raise money–politics is so unbelievably hokey sometimes.) It was a slightly … Read more

to prove I can write a short post: According to this survey, I am Charles Kennedy. My British relative approves. According to this one, I am “red” Ken Livingstone, which he says is “all right, if you don’t mind being completely f—— insane.” According to this, I write like a man. (It’s not close, either.) … Read more

There’s an interesting interview with the director of Amnesty International in Salon today. It’s mainly a critique of the anti-war movement (or at least its most visible members). But rather than start Iraq Debate Round 8072 I want to discuss these lines from the interview: “Certainly I have argued within Amnesty that in the face … Read more

This is ridiculous. The Justice Department is prosecuting Greenpeace for boarding a ship to protest illegal trade of mahogany. What Greenpeace did was illegal, and they were arrested by the Coast Guard, as is routine in a non-violent civil disobedience protest like this one. What is not routine is that: 1) the Justice department is … Read more

I’m von, I’m the third poster on the site, and I’m currently consumed by the following question: What the hell has going on at Daily Kos? I used to read Daily Kos. He was an insightful commentator on the Iraq war, and it didn’t hurt that his politics and mine have certain similarities. But what … Read more

Hi. I’m Katherine , host #2. The liberal one. I try not to froth at the mouth, and to paraphrase my mother, I don’t hate Bush, I just hate the way he’s acting. I’ve been volunteering for the Howard Dean campaign on and off since last March, which should give an idea of both my … Read more