The regular list

If you like to trade books, try BookMooch.

cfk has bookflurries on Weds. nights

pico has literature for kossacks on Tues. nights, but it’s on hiatus

What are you reading? is crossposted to docudharma

Same stuff as last week….

the boy would live forever by Fred Pohl.  In the Gateway series.  Fun.

Statistical models: Theory and practice by David Freedman.  Delves into the details of models, without getting overly mathematical.  

The politics of congressional elections” by Gary Jacobson ….nicely geeky

Alexander Hamilton  by Ron Chernow.  Barely started, but it is already impressive (as is the subject)

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet.  Interesting novel about 12th century England

The Art of Mathematics by Bela Belobas.  Interesting, easily stated math problems. For slow solving.

Note: I won’t be around much today, but will check in when I can

(cross posted from DailyKos)

In my series on congressional races, I hit a lot of candidate websites.  Some are fantastic, some are so-so, some look like they were done by a person who read “Web sites for dummies” but didn’t understand it. And some candidates have no website at all.

I know nothing about web site construction.  But I bet some of you do. Maybe we can do something?

Also, I am not trying to insOK, I’ve not looked at every website, but I’ve looked at a lot.

One of the best I’ve seen is from the 2006 campaign in GA-06: Steve Sinton .  This looks like one produced by a big corporation.  Clean, flashy, good buttons, voice over….

Or look at this one for Bobby Saxon in GA-10.  There are lots of good ones.

I don’t think they all need to be that good, and they certainly shouldn’t all be the same. But they should all be written in grammatical English, shouldn’t they?

Look at this one .  There’s a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence, not after every comma.

In VA-02, Glenn Nye has announced, and filed with the FEC, but has no website.

In NJ-04 Amy Vazquez has a website, but it’s old (it has a fundraising goal whose deadline has passed) and Josh Zeitz has no site at all.

In MO-02 George Weber is running again – his website doesn’t really inspire confidence

In FL-05, Dave Werder has no web site at all.

In FL-18, 21, and 25, there are three new challengers who have good shots.

ult anyone’s campaign.  I’m just trying to help.

I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.

But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are not running (I am not going to look at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)

This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU.

crossposted to dailyKos

I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.

But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are not running (I am not going to look at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)

This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU.

crossposted to dailyKos

I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.

But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are not running (I am not going to look at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)

This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU.

crossposted to dailyKos and SwingStateProject

I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.

But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are not running (I am not going to look at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)

This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU.

crossposted to dailyKos and SwingStateProject

I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.

But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are not running (I am not going to look at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)

This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU.

crossposted to dailyKos

I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.

But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are not running (I am not going to look at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)

This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU.

crossposted to dailyKos and SwingStateProject

I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.

But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are running and not running; and where the Republicans are running and not running (I am not going to look in detail at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)

This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU, and informed by the great Race Tracker Wiki (links throughout).

crossposted to dailyKos

Intro: This is the first in a series that I’ve been running at dailyKos and SwingStateProject… the series isn’t over in either of those places, so I’ll post more quickly here, if there is interest, so that eventually all three places will be getting the same stuff.  It’s also a bit of an experiment – I’m feeling out the territory here. If you like the series, let me know, and it will continue.  If not, well, I do have two other outlets for it.  Most of those diaries covered more than one state.

The order of states was by the date of their filing deadline, but it’s a bit messed up now.

I am all for running everywhere, and the 50 state strategy.

But neither we nor the Republicans are running everywhere (at least not yet!) In this series, I will look at where we are running and not running; and where the Republicans are running and not running (I am not going to look in detail at where Republicans are not running, as I have no desire to help Republicans, however modestly)

This diary is partly inspired by the great work done by BENAWU, and informed by the great Race Tracker Wiki (links throughout).

OK, this has nothing to do with politics…. but… well, what the heck

An English Laxative

Today I eat what I once ate

But I don’t heat the things I hate

And while we meet before we mate

We do not greet before we grate

I fly the places where I flew

And then I sigh, and then I sue.

The things I buy do not go ‘boo’.

And then I cry to all my crew.

I sit the places where I sat

I still can fit – I’m not too fat

Then I flit off to my flat

Where I will slit one of my slats

I don’t know everything I knew

I go to where there is no goo

I flow the places where I flew

I did the things that now I do.