More stuff you should be reading instead of this lousy blog…

• Wow. There is a limit. The St. Pete Times has reversed its endorsement of Mel Martinez and thrown its support behind Martinez’s opponent Bill McCollum. The action came after the Martinez campaign’s “nasty and ludicrous slurs” of McCollum. Who knew the Times had balls? (via Buzz Machine)

• Nice post at Body and Soul on the RNC protesters. Jeanne reminded me of Billionaires for Bush, which I almost blogged about yesterday. The more I hear about them, the more I laugh.

• Cool! Here’s a page that collects RNC news via RSS feeds from various news sources, and Flickr, too. Man, I love technology.

• Does anyone else remember that Rudy Giuliani’s political career was nearly finished before 9/11? Some do.

• Juan Cole rocks. Here, he puts intelligently what I could only incoherently blather about while watching the RNC speeches tonight: that the Republicans continue to conflate the Iraq war with the war of revenge against al Qaeda, and that “9/11 and the US military [are being used by the Republicans] for partisan purposes.”

• More RNC speech deconstruction from Slacktivist. (via Sisyphus Shrugged) I wonder who told Bush we couldn’t win the war on terror? You don’t think he’s been reading independent media, do you?

• Tena at First Draft points out, with the help of Paul Krugman, that Bush’s campaign in Iraq is on the brink of becoming a complete disaster.

You know, one of the things that bothered me about last night’s convention proceedings was the constant drumbeat of support for Bush’s “decisive action” in taking on terrorists by fighting a war with Iraq. Aside from the inherent contradiction in that move, if you’re going to pick a fight, make sure it’s a fight you can win. Walking into a bar and picking a fight with a bunch of bikers isn’t courageous; it’s just plain stupid. Winning a fight requires courage and brains.

• What the hell? Via The Talent Show, Jesus’ General notes that the Secret Service stopped NPR reporter Andrea Seabrook (among others, apparently) from getting close to or interviewing Michael Moore. I couldn’t find the audio at NPR, but one of JC’s commenters has made an mp3 file available here. Can someone explain this one to me?

• This is why the Democrats are doomed to fail: they actually have integrity. (Atrios)

• Hmm… From Boing Boing: “By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location [into a Diebold central vote tabulator], a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks.” Does this sound like a defect to you? Or a feature? [By the way, clicking the link in the Boing Boing post to blackboxvoting.org results in a page stating the account has been suspended. I’m sure that’s just an administrative issue, right?)

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