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"The artisitic and cultural life of the city had reached a plateau-- a high one to be sure, but not the heights of the age of Durer."

Magdalena and Balthasar
An Intimate Portrait of Life in the 16th Century Europe, Revealed in the Letters of a Nuremberg Husband and Wife

Mushy colors, and false dichotomies

I live in a "Blue" state. I (had I been allowed to) voted for Kerry.

But painting me as being a raging Democrat fails to properly depict me. I am against the sorts of gun control that Party favors. I'm also a bit middling in my views of regulation, and taxes.

If you were to color me with balance, I am a muddy purple, more blue than red, with streaks of whatever color one wishes to use for social libertarianism.

Which is true of Texas, and Ohio, and Tennesee, and all the rest.

Take Texas (the object of scorn in some of those maps of frustration). She cast more votes for Texas than New York did, than Ohio did, than Pennsylvania did. In fact she cast more votes for Kerry than any state save California.

The country split, almost straight down the middle, and that split was reflected in almost every state. Bitching and moaning about the Red statesis not beneficial. It steals focus, and it risks pissing off the people in those states who didn't vote for Bush.

The unpleasant aspects of the Republican Platform are not going away, but they might find another stealth candidate; someone who look good, and then turns out to be as bad (or worse, entrenchment breeds complacency, and unfettered power {which both House and Senate, combined with Executive, and a tolerant Judiciary will only make exacerbate} and that may aggravate contempt), and we need the people who voted for Kerry this time around to vote with us the next time.

Worse, that sort of villification plays into the meme of the "hateful left" (which is being astroturfed into a real problem).

Don't let the great size of the map be used to distort the squeaker this election was.

Paint it in shades of purple, from sea to shining sea.

Where do I stand?

What is your stand on.....
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Abortion?	Pro-choice
Death Penalty?	Can't be implemeted fairly, abolish
Prostitution?	legalise... pimping remains a crime
Alcohol?	I like it.
Marijuana?	legalise
Other drugs?	Prohibition was such a hit last time... legalise
Gay marriage?	Same as straight
Illegal immigrants?	We need to stop the quota system, at least
Smoking?	If ya gotta, but please, outdoors
Drunk driving?	Criminal
Cloning?	Conflicted
Racism?	Agin' it
Premarital sex?	I've done it, will do it again. No complaints
Religion?	Yep
The war in Iraq?	Been there, done that, was no fun.
Bush?	Not fond of
Downloading music?	Conflicted
The legal drinking age?	Mixed feelings. We have poor inculcation
Porn?	Most is pretty dull, but some is all right
Suicide?	Stop me, if you can
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Some linkage

saoba writes Seed Corn

Ever wonder what those dead white guys were good for? Urban Classics

Here's a look at what ownership might cost What's in your wallet

Who defines moral anyway? Slacktivist

Apres Ashcroft, le deluge?Alberto "Torture Memo" Gonzalez"

Last but not least, you want morals, I gotcher' morals, Right hereThat’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women. p.s. he turned off comments last year, when a lot of people (myself included) were taking him to task for threatening another blogger's life. It was indirect, vague comments that the man ought to be killed, and then publishing his address. He is a vile piece of work, and now he gets paid to write for the Washington Times.

Don't mourn, organise.