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Glenn Reynolds notes (via Bill Stuntz) : Which leads to a piece of conventional wisdom that’s actually pretty wise: America divides into red and blue because those are the colors the parties give us. Perhaps both sides need to see that the smart move is to paint with a different color. Purple beats red or blue, every time. In 2008, when Rudy Giuliani faces off against Barack Obama, those maps will look very different. Hellz yeah!

Courtesy Michael “Hagi” Gross: The Pastor’s Corner, May 6 2004 : She got baptized but she don’t know why All she can do is coo an’ cry ‘Cause when a girl gets elected inna bitta haste An’ don’t know His Saving Grace She gets sprinkled Inna shallow font No full immersion, just a front She’s not Jesus acceptin’ Ain’t nuttin’ but a baby wettin’ No, gotta axe Him be your Save-ya Your Faith professa’ Tha Bible tried to warn yall…

Bush wins the popular vote by 3 million and change. California approves $3 bil of stem cell money. Six red 11 states ban gay marriage, including Ohio. Cleveland Heights’ domestic partner registry, authorized by voters last November, will end. Five publicly supported colleges, including Cleveland State and Ohio State, will no longer offer benefits to unmarried couples gay or straight. For gays and lesbians, the impact is immediate, personal and painful. “I know of at least five families who are…

These early exit-poll numbers do not divine the name of the winner. Instead, regard these numbers as a sportswriter does the line scores from the fourth inning of a baseball game. The leading team might win the game, but then again it might not. But having the early data in front of him helps the sportswriter plot the story he thinks he’ll need to write at game’s end. – Jack Shafer, Slate November 2, 2004 That aside, Zogby says: Zogby…

You do have a right to record an interview that I do with you, provided that I consent. Please don’t be like the folks at Promiscuous Bullet in their Oct. 29 podcast, where they broadcast their non-consenual recording of my interview with them. I wouldn’t have so much a problem with this if they’d asked me if they could record, and then asked me if they could podcast it. The interview doesn’t have anything bad, revealing or salacious in it,…

So I was watching the clips that Boing Boing has posted from The Daily Show and I was reminded of a recent idea I had for a new television paradigm: A la carte television. I don’t watch enough TV to justify owning one, let alone paying $40 a month for cable. There just aren’t enough shows that I want to watch on a regular basis. The three things that I do watch, baseball games, Enterprise, and The Daily Show, I…

Thanks Boyk, for turning me onto him. Goes perfectly well with a 74 degree Sunday afternoon in New York City. Speaking of which, I’m thinking about making a New York/Journalism themed CD to sell to J-students as my holiday gift to whoever wants one. Possible tracks include: They Might Be Giants – New York City Royal Crown Revue – A Bronx Hello Count Basie -Take the A’ Train Frank Sinatra – New York, New York Mates of State – Everyone…

Some dudes got arrested today for landing their hot air balloon in Central Park. The men said they were in distress and had been cleared to land by air traffic controllers Ð a claim police disputed. Do air traffic controllers interact with hot air balloons? Is this normal?

So given the attention that my podcasting piece has gotten, with links to my own blog on Scoble’s blog, Paul Boutin’s blog, Dave Winer’s blog and many others, my own blog hasn’t seen ginormous increases in traffic. I’m not looking for amazing traffic numbers, I just figured that this would send my hits through the roof. Maybe it’s still early, but I’m surprised that my post about the Panty Flash to Boing Boing and Fleshbot got me over 7000 unique…