The Sound of the Crowd

Sunday Papers

  1. Howard Dean Disputes Media View that ‘Values’ Swung Election. Please god, let the democrats find an effective role for Dean to play in the party over the next four years. We’re gonna need him.

1A. And here’s a Swiftian article on why that role should not be DNC chair. It’s the best thing I have ever seen on Kos.

  1. Religious right blasts Mary Cheney’s “flaunting” of her homosexuality. Like AmericaBlog, I do hope we’re going to see all those middle-aged straight male pundit experts on lesbians speak up now. The ones who were shocked–shocked!–at Kerry’s “outing” of Ms Cheney.

  1. Frank Rich in the New York Times: On ‘Moral Values,’ It’s Blue in a Landslide.

  1. The Faith Factor, by Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed. This is the one to read if you only read one.


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