Lots of juicy stuff today that you should be reading instead of this lousy blog…

• First of all, can I get some love from my man Jon Stewart? M’boy’s all over the Novak thang. (via First Draft) Of course, that’s not a surprise, as it was Stewart who coined my favorite Novak nickname: Douchebag of Liberty!

• First Draft also has this about a platoon in Iraq that’s been arrested for refusing to go on what they considered to be a suicide mission. (Insignifica: The justice professor quoted in the article is from the tiny college my dad used to work for in my hometown.)

• Lots from Josh Marshall about Republican dirty campaign tricks. Just go to Talking Points Memo and start reading.

• Sid’s Fishbowl has more on the Republican dirty campaign tricks (soon to be a feature on David Letterman!). At the end of his post he quotes from an unnerving PressThink piece about Sinclair Broadcasting, the gaggle of wingnuts who are preparing to broadcast an anti-Kerry propaganda piece the week before the election. In it, Jay Rosen asks the questionm “Is Sinclair a broadcasting empire getting what it needs from politics, or an ideological empire getting what it needs from broadcasting, possibly on the way to some larger and more potent combination?” In other words, what if Sinclair isn’t in it for the money? What if they’re willing to take heavy losses in order to promote their ideological agenda? Free market forces have worked in the past to keep broadcasters fair and honest, but what if those forces all of a sudden weren’t in play?

• Speaking of Sinclair and Republican dirty campaign tricks (soon to be a Penn & Teller HBO special), Kevin Drum has the scoop on the Nightline reporters that went to the village in Vietnam where John Kerry engaged in the action that earned him his Silver Star. I don’t want to spoil his post, but you should read it to find out what this has to do with Sinclair and the Swift Boat Vets and why Drum concludes: “What a revolting bunch of men. What a disgusting, repellent, sleazy operation.”

• Via Boing Boing, we find this kick-ass send up of the School House Rock animations revealing the greatest dirty political trick of all: establishing a government.

• William Gibson is blogging again, and his first post illuminates something about what seems to paralyze many Americans: we can’t come to grips with the fact that some of our leaders don’t share our values and don’t have our best interests at heart.

• Local Boy Ian Spiers just pointed to an article that claims that Bob Barr is now a card-carrying member of the ACLU. Apparently he joined because he felt the Patriot Act went too far. Brain… melting…

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