“[President Bush] has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics… He has appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing. And he has chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection … Race remains the central fact of life for every nonwhite American. It eclipses income, position, gender, education – race trumps them all.” – Julian Bond, Board Chairman of the NAACP, July 8.
SELF-PROMOTION DEPT.: Check out Alex Kuczinski’s piece on me-zines in today’s New York Times. Nice plug for the site, although Mickey Kaus rightly takes center-stage (he started this). My only quibble is that Kuczinski doesn’t quite get what this means for journalism as a whole – the independence movement for writers. But, heck, it’s just a short piece. We’ve also been named the web-site of the month by the conservative website, EnterStageRight. They call us “always enjoyable and a must-read for those who follow current events.”
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