disturbing

from Salon.com

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham appeared over the weekend at an annual Lincoln Day dinner in Knoxville, Tenn. Why wasn't he back home in South Carolina? Because, Graham said, his home state isn't quite ready to honor the 16th president of the United States. "We don't do Lincoln Day dinners in South Carolina," Graham said. "It's nothing personal, but it takes awhile to get over things."

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Considering I'm taking a class on anaytical methods right now, I really enjoyed this (http://vowe.net/archives/005632.html) very much. One of the many things I love about Nora is that she shares my distaste for convoluted analyical methods (or methodologies, as their promoters always insist on referring to them) that seek to somehow endow qualitative judgments with "more legitimacy" by turning them into quantitative data and then manipulating it extensively to notionally show that it "proves" something or has some characteristic of consistency or correlates to some other quantified data. All of which totally obscures the orignal analytical judgment and any issues about its validity or grounding in reality.

Bankruptcy bill

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/bankruptcy/

Sometime, maybe tonight, I'll post more on what's been going on with me lately, but I just wanted to highlight this blog that Lee put me onto. There are a lot of Democrats who, IMO, should lose their seats as a result of their support for this bill. So should the Republicans, but they'll work their usual black magic and persuade their constituents to vote them back into office on social issues the Reps will do nothing about in order while pursuing their "releive teh rpessure on the wealthy, screw the little guy" agenda (no, I'm not bitter at all...) But Democrats should be held to account by their party; if they're not prepared to stand up and oppose legislation like this, then they shouldn't be Democrats.