Despite my enthusiasm for political blogging, I’m still having trouble working out a system for doing it consistently. For today, let me just offer up this quote from Van Jones, an activist doing work to connect issues of environmentalism, community development, and incarceration: One thing I’ve been saying a lot lately is that Dr. King […]
Montana’s Democratic governor (yes, you read that right)
As part of their new Life of the Party series, Salon did a great interview with the recently elected Democratic governor of Montana. Yep, he won in 2004 – as a Democrat running for governor in a state where Bush beat Kerry by a whiz-bang of a landslide, 20 points. How the hell did he […]
Look at Red mortality rates too
From the January 2005 Harper’s Index: Average number of suicides per 100,000 residents in states carried by President Bush in November: 13.5 Average number in states carried by John Kerry: 9.9 and: Hours after Kerry conceded that a New Yorker posted a personal ad seeking a Bush supporter for a “fair, physical fight”: 5 Number […]