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Tom DeLay is an *uber*FuckWad.

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What a social security deal could look like (via TPM)

Think Hilary's not electable? Think again.

From the Christian Science Monitor, the new centrists in the Senate


The Wall St. Journal has a good (and, of course, not publicly available) piece on the difficulties of counting blogs

If you read press coverage about blogs, you might conclude that just about all Americans are reading a blog. But then you wouldn't have time to read the press coverage, because if surveys are to be believed, you're probably busy creating your own blog.

The numbers of the blogosphere range widely. Are there 10 million blogs, or 32 million?

But not all blogs are actively maintained.

The total number of active blogs -- those with a post in the past 30 days -- was 3.5 million on May 1, according to BlogPulse. That was up just 30% from last September, even as the site found that the total number of blogs increased nearly 200% over that time. That suggests there's a lot of dead air out there.

(They don't even mention people like me, who have more than one actively-maintained one!)