When asked to pick between voting for “experience” or “change”, 3 out of 4 voters want change.
However, that’s not the whole story from Gallup:
The results of this forced-choice question were lopsided in favor of “change” — 73% of Democrats said changing the system would be more important to their decision about whom to support, while [...]

Even though I believe in global markets, I would.

Bush recently stated that the administration wanted to keep the Iraqi Army in place, but that it didn’t happen. L. Paul Bremer apparently has a problem with Bush appearing as if he was remixing history, and has produced evidence to show that Bush knew what was going down all along.
From NY Times:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — [...]

How could a party with so much power and momentum go so horribly wrong?
From Sun Times:
During the summer, a female acquaintance of mine in her 70s who had been a faithful Republican was solicited by a GOP cold caller as a previous contributor to the party. Not this time. She informed the fund-raiser that President [...]

I’m changing the “Pics of the Week” section in the footer to “1000 Words.” I think it has a nicer ring to it and I’m going to be highlighting a new pic each day and sharing the story behind it.
Today we have the story of Kenneth Foster, a death row inmate in Texas who surprisingly [...]

First, from the BBC:

Then Reuters has some followup:
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) – A researcher investigating underwater rock formations off the coast of Japan believes they are the remnants of an Asian equivalent of Atlantis — an ancient civilization swallowed up by the ocean.
Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura says he has identified the ruins of a city off [...]

This time its maggots in chocolate?
Listen, it’s not like American made goods haven’t had problems, but China is really taking it on the chin lately and for good reason. Consumers are becoming increasingly more uncomfortable trusting their health to a country with seemingly such lax standards on what they export.
From Reuters:

Courtesy of TheNewsRoom.

Ironic…the following video is kind of short…but its subject is very long.

Courtesy of TheNewsRoom.

Apparently a majority of Americans are in favor of it, but is it likely that we can switch without some serious movement in the halls of power?
From FairVote:
Many adults in the United States are questioning the way their head of state us elected, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 54 per cent of respondents [...]

Why paragraph? Well, it’s much more than just a quote…
“Mother Teresa’s agonies of doubt are surely not all that unusual. What is unusual is that she put them in writing and now they are being revealed to the world, in spite of her explicit wish that they be destroyed. I get mail all the time [...]

…but don’t take them for granted.
That’s the meme we’re written about numerous time and now the LA Times is picking it up…
Surveys by Pew have found that far fewer voters now identify with the Republican Party. Where the two parties had roughly an equal hold on the electorate in 2002, now only about 35% call [...]

My latest post on Iran and the Netroots is up at The Van Der Galien Gazette. Please go check it out, and here is a snip:
In the past, “Liberal Hawks” such as me have been accused of being vapid and disingenuous regarding a possible attack on Iran. This accusation has always puzzled me, since [...]

The Washington Post picks up the “7 Questions” meme and asks some fairly straight-forward questions:

Is the Clinton campaign a true juggernaut — or is that just what she wants everyone to believe?
Is there a Republican front-runner?
Is anyone on either side positioned to break into the top tier?
Does the new, turbo- charged calendar make Iowa and [...]

This is completely unrelated to anything political, but if bloggers can “cat blog” and Sully can post pictures from people’s windows, I can share this hidden gem.
Basically, if you’ve seen any of the CSI shows, you should get a really big kick out of this. And even if you haven’t, well, you should laugh anyway.
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You can click here to see what it looked like. Just text and links, but it’s interesting to see where it all came from.
So what was the first sentence?
The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
And so it did…

I saw this picture on Wonkette and was reminded of the many odd things Putin has kissed over the years.
1. A young boy’s stomach.

2. Two dolphins.

3. A gold book of some sort.

4. The former President’s dog.

5. And just after this photo was taken the goat got a nice sloppy one.

Any other memorable kisses you all [...]

Seriously.
I may not agree with them all the time, and some of them may leave me nasty, ill-informed comments, but they are collectively an ingenious, passionate bunch of folks.
And to that point…
Avery Knapp is typical of the Paul Web supporter. A 28-year-old radiology resident, Knapp describes himself as a lifelong conservative who voted [...]