To turn your clock back? Next year just won’t be the same:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This Halloween will be the last time most U.S. kids yell “trick-or-treat” in the dark, as next year’s extension of daylight saving time promises to shed more light on traditional candy-gathering activities.
This year clocks will be turned back one hour on [...]

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Famous women talk about their first time:

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Everything BushCo touches turns to shit:
PARIS — The conflict in Iraq is drawing fewer foreign fighters as Muslim extremists aspiring to battle the West turn their attention back to the symbolically important and increasingly violent turf of Afghanistan, European and US antiterrorism officials say.
The shift of jihadis to Afghanistan this year suggests that Al Qaeda [...]

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Several well-known Republicans on why the present administration is unacceptable to real conservatives.

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David Brooks says Rick Santorum is a misunderstood saint who loves the poor. No, really. He even quotes Bono to prove his point.
Brooks is either dangerously naive about Santorum’s larger agenda, or all too happy to catapult the propaganda.
More recently, he has pushed through a stream of legislation to help the underprivileged, often with Democratic [...]

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Yeah, because if there’s one thing we know, it’s that electronic voting machines here have been showing landslides for leftists, and someone ought to clamp down on them:
The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to [...]

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There’s that personal responsibility thing Republicans seem to be allergic to:
Now that corruption cases like Enron and WorldCom are falling out of the news, two influential industry groups with close ties to administration officials are hoping to swing the regulatory pendulum in the opposite direction. The groups are drafting proposals to provide broad new protections [...]

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Jim Boggia live with Mike Viola. (Jim’s on the right.) Cos and I were there the first time he performed it in public - geeze, I think it was almost ten years ago. Anyway, his then-girlfriend (with whom he had a, uh, stormy relationship) was also there at La Tazza with her mother and Jim [...]

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Dexter marathon on Showtime tonight. Life is good…

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Hey, if you’re not in politics to help your family, what’s the point?
WASHINGTON | Rep. Curt Weldon, under investigation for allegedly trading his influence to get lobbying business for a daughter, also helped corporations that have hired another daughter, former aides said.
Federal Election Commission reports show that within months of Weldon’s advocacy, three of these [...]

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Early voters in Florida are reporting problems with the electronic voting machines, and you’ll never guess what - the mistakes are all in favor of the Republicans!
What are the odds?

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The campaign My DD’s Chris Bowers started to get safe incumbents to share the wealth has been a great success.
Nice, creative way to use the netroots!

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Suppose, just suppose, we lost the election. Under the circumstances, I’d rather see the Republicans get the credit for all this hard work.

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Here comes the wave:
WASHINGTON - Republicans were supposed to be great mapmakers.
After the 2000 census, Republicans in Florida and other states created new congressional maps to give their party a strategic advantage. By shifting their voters into select House districts, the GOP gained two seats in Florida and at least 10 others around the country. [...]

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Heh heh.

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Tony Blair:

[Hat tip, Ygelesias.]

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Comedy Central has Stewart and Colbert clips pulled from YouTube.

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The New York Times once again discovers something that’s been obvious to the rest of us for years:
All this is, as everyone knows, just a show for rousing the base. If the last month has taught us anything about the Republican Party, it is that homophobia is campaign strategy, not conviction. Congressmen who trust their [...]

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St. Louis Cardinals. Congratulations!
Once, before I die, I want to see the Phillies win again. Here’s hoping…

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The IndyMedia people do an amazing job with very little, and this is such sad news:
OAXACA, Mexico (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire in Mexico’s colonial city of Oaxaca on Friday, killing three people including a U.S. journalist near road blocks set up by leftists pushing to topple a state governor.
Will Bradley Roland, a cameraman working [...]

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From Steven Sondeim’s “Company,” probably my favorite musical, this selection by Lea Salonga, Maria Friedman, Ruthie Henshall and Millicent Martin:

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Can this be true?
Two former House committee investigators who were examining Capitol Hill security upgrades said a senior aide to Speaker J. Dennis Hastert hindered their efforts before they were abruptly ordered to stop their probe last year.
The former Appropriations Committee investigators said Ted Van Der Meid, Hastert’s chief counsel, resisted from the start [...]

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Letterman, via Scarmouche:
10. ‘Do I feel comfortable having a governor who oils his chest?’
9. ‘Have I thoroughly considered Stallone, Van Damme and Seagal?’
8. ‘Is ‘Come on, it’ll be funny’ a good reason to vote for someone?’
7. ‘Has he done enough to make California a laughingstock?’
6. ‘How can I be sure he’ll be just as Schwarzeneggy [...]

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Look what they released 5 p.m. today:
WASHINGTON - The economy has slowed to a snail’s pace, growing in the just-finished quarter at the slowest rate in more than three years and stirring fresh debate about the country’s financial health heading into the elections.
The Commerce Department reported Friday that economic growth during the July-to-September period [...]

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Well, you readers are just amazing. Not only do Mary Beth and Eric have a new generator on the way, they can even get their brake lines fixed. Mucho karma points to everyone who contributed. From Mary Beth:
For the past couple of years, we tried to cover the costs of the Koufaxes in a [...]

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Michael Schiavo attends a Marilyn Musgrave (CO-4) debate, and the Republican who didn’t hestitate to attack his values on the floor of the House tries to have him removed.
Go read it all, it’s pretty amazing.

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My brother called me from Florida this morning, and as always, he made it a point to tell me about the lovely weather. “Yeah, but you don’t have the trees turning like we do here,” I said. He said yeah, he did miss that.

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