Go throw the Smirking Chimp a few bucks if you got ‘em.

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Yeah, here’s another fake email. This one’s comparing Clinton’s and Obama’s legislative record - someone sent it to me, I didn’t have the time or energy to debunk it. How nice of Newsweek to get Factcheck.org do it for me! (Kudos to them, by the way, for fact checking this insidious sort of email. I […]

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Ashley Morris, the great NOLA blogger and activist, is dead. Scout has more:

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Created by OnePlusYou

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Piss and moan.

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All Spin Zone’s Richard Blair looks at the effect primary madness has had on some big blogs.

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What Digby says.

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This is, in fact, my blog. I think of it as my cyber living room, and the commenters as my guests. However, some of you seem to think it’s okay to come here and unload on me or my guests.
That’s not acceptable. I want everyone to feel welcome here, so I’m setting some ground rules. […]

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Kos.

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I forgot to mention that my Very Good Friend Paul Krugman® reads Making Light, and was thrilled to be sitting across from Teresa Neilsen-Hayden (who, like me, is a narcoleptic) at dinner.
I also needled Paul Krugman®, “You’re one of those people who ordered a Kindle, aren’t you?”
And yes, he did. “But I didn’t get it […]

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Something else to feel guilty about - Google:
It is no coincidence that search engine giant Google is building its newest computer center near the Dalles Dam, a huge hydroelectric power plant in Oregon. Buying electricity directly from the plant costs one-fifth as much as Google would be paying in California. Besides, the Columbia River supplies […]

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Some very smart people on the media bias panel I moderated yesterday - Will Bunch, Eric Boehlert, Athenae, Spocko, and Doug Smith.
The most interesting part to me was Eric Boehlert’s take on how the blogosphere is handling the primary:
Next is Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert. He refers us to McCainFreeRide.com for the excellent book produced by […]

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Over a nice Vietnamese dinner yesterday with my Very Good Friend Paul Krugman®, who allegedly knows a thing or two about economics, he talked about the vicious hate mail he gets for saying positive things about Hillary Clinton. (No surprise to me.)
He also said he can’t understand why Clinton doesn’t get more credit for […]

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Details here.

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I’m signing onto the All Spin Zone treaty.

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Chris Bowers thinks Obama wants a floor fight at the convention:
The Obama campaign apparently considers a Michigan re-vote somehow more damaging to their chances to win the presidency than a credentials fight and a floor fight over the Michigan delegations. That is their calculation to make, but I completely disagree. If John McCain ends up […]

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See, Jane Hamsher gets it. Although she’s an Obama supporter, she calls out Bill Richardson on his inconsistencies:
Richardson seems to be talking out of both sides of his mouth on this one. New Mexico went for Clinton, and Hispanics in the New Mexico caucuses went 2-1 for Clinton. If Richardson thinks superdelegates should “vote according […]

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Elayne has lots of good stuff. Go read her.

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To Natasha!

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Richard Blair nails it.

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Beware of White Men Bearing Gifts from Wolcott; Mentors from Melissa; Pissed Enough to Sit It Out from Corrente; Bush Tied To Child Prostitution from Open Left; Mixed Messages on the Re-Vote Front from MyDD; For FL Dems from TalkLeft; and High Level Rightwing Discourse on Teh Gays from Glenn Greenwald.

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Kevin Drum gets it right:
Jonathan Cohn says this about Geraldine Ferraro’s recent comments to the press:
Ferraro’s original statement to Daily Breeze, which suggested that Obama has gotten preferential political treatment because of his race, was a dog-whistle to white voters who resent affirmative action.
Well, sure. Except for one thing. Torrance is a faceless little bedroom […]

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Today is Maya’s birthday. The thing is, most people forgot - including me. (Bad friend!) When I called her today, she was kinda sad.
Whattaya say you leave some birthday wishes for her in the comments? I know she’d love it.

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Digby’s right. Go read it.

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Matt Stoller:
I bet if you asked blog readers who has been treated well in the press, they would answer differently than Democratic primary voters. I’m having a tough time keeping any interest in this primary, it’s both discouraging and upsetting to watch this disconnect between the internet space I’ve worked on for four years […]

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