Saturday Roundup

Smatterings of interesting tidbits:

• Via Brian T., Mike at Cold Fury gets, um...heated.
  

  ...if you [Leftists] truly believe that all this ["fascism"] is now in the process of happening right before your very eyes, doesn't it become incumbent upon you, as the most basic imaginable of moral obligations, to do something to prevent it, or overturn it? I mean, obviously, you tried peaceful means of stopping us, but that didn't work - because us right-wingnuts rigged the election and disenfranchised everybody. And you can't go to the courts because they're in the Bushitler's pocket too, all the way up to the Supreme Court, which you've been saying for four years now illegally handed him the White House after the tainted 2000 "election." So your last legal, nonviolent means of resistance has been taken away from you, and you can't even count on the media to publicize the reality of what's going on because of their right-wing slant, their fondness for the status quo, and of course the fact that they're really nothing but money-grubbing corporations themselves whose only concern is the bottom line.
  
  So what's left, Lefties? Where do you go from here? What are you gonna do about it? [Emphasis in original.]

  Debbye and Ace Of Spades have a suggestion.


• Kevin Libin at The Shotgun sees some intellectual life at the Toronto Star, while Damian Penny notes discouraging news on a related topic.


• In 'back home' news, Louisiana is making trouble for France.


• Project Gutenberg has updated The Koran (as translated by J.M. Rodwell) in their online library of digitized public-domain texts - which makes this as good a time as any for me to urge you to download and read through it.


• Bruce's "Most Annoying Canadian" competition has reached the final round. I must admit that I'm not surprised at Ms. Copps victory (though she must have had a Karl Rove-like campaign manager to keep it so close).

And coming soon: an exploration of the question that's been nagging at me for a while: why are the political leanings of these American libertarians so different from those of their British compatriots? (With exceptions on both sides, of course).
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