Think about this the next time you trash McCain

WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN?
By Jonathan Haidt (at The Edge via Skeptic)

http://tinyurl.com/4yn9za

Haven’t done much more than skim this. Will read it tonight but I was put off by all them big words and concepts like “A Durkheimian ethos can’t be supported by the two moral foundations that hold up a Millian society…”.

Cuz the Patriot Act isn’t strong enough

From TPM:

In a little-noticed executive order issued on Tuesday, President Bush directed the Treasury Department to block the U.S.-based financial assets of anyone deemed to have threatened “the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq” or who “undermin(e) efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq.”

It’s not going to stop, is it?