Noli Irritare Leones

Ta-Nehisi Coates: A thug for them dead-enders thugging for me. (Eve is right about the general awesomeness of TNC.)

Steven Barnes: Why Talk To The Tree?

Drima: Reading Your Way to a Lonely Place.

Michael Ross at The Root: Oh, Lord, Kumbaya.

KELELE – The African Bloggers’ Conference.

The Republic of T: Equality in Connecticut.

Southern Poverty Law Center blog: Fox’s Cavuto Wins SPLC’s Dobbsy Award for Pinning Blame on Minorities for Mortgage Crisis.

Thor: Some sincere campaign advice for John McCain.

Feminist Mormon Housewives: Show a Little Love (and Understanding).

Echidne: Politics in Pictures. A Feminist Essay. Related, Ann Bartow on Politics, Feminism and Firsts.

Balkinization: Open Thread on Posts on The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Rights. (This one has all the guest posts related to that conference that have been featured at Balkinization, all 19 of them.)

davenoon on Ethics to Nowhere.

Writing Raven at Alaska Real: Palin “Troopergate” report released. (By an Alaskan, about how Alaskans are reacting.)

Writing Raven at Alaska Real: Make sure you take a second look. (Not about Palin, but rather about Alaskan villages.)

hilzoy at Obsidian Wings: The Palin Report. (She read more of it than I did.)

Diary of an Anxious Black Woman: Because We All Need Reassurance Again from Michella Obama: “Be Not Afraid”

Publius at Obsidian Wings: Obama’s Ghostwriters — ObWi Exclusive!!

Joel and *Christopher recommend this video:

Camassia visits a UU church in DC: Two Sundays.

Liz Opp: Distracted from God.

Philocrites: Insightful observations about Gov Sarah Palin.

Lee: Human uniqueness qualified (if not debunked) and Notes on human uniqueness and the Imago Dei.

Lee also informs us about John Henry Neumann’s post-mortem Disappearing act and discusses the Invasion of the left-wing body snatchers.

I largely agree with John’s take on the whole Obama-as-closet-radical idea being pushed by the (increasingly desperate) McCain campaign and its media fellow travelers. (Be sure to follow the links he provides too.) I have plenty of lefty friends, and they certainly don’t think Obama is a radical lefty. On everything from health care to taxes to foreign policy he’s staked out positions well to the right of hard-core lefties/progressives.

Of course, no matter how conservative the Democrat may seem, the GOP always tries to convince voters that he or she is “really” a wild-eyed liberal who, once in power, will turn America into a cross between Cuba, France, and the Harvard faculty lounge. Bill Clinton, easily the most conservative Democratic president since Grover Cleveland, received this treatment in spades….

Jane Hammsher unpacks the perennial “most liberal Senator ever” meme that crops up every election to be flung against the Democratic candidate (isn’t it funny how self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders never gets ranked as the “most liberal Senator”?). Hat tip to Avedon Carol.

The Panda’s Thumb on Christians v. Intelligent Design: Featured: George Coyne.

Neuroanthropology: Carolyn Nordstrom: Fighting for a Healthy Global Economy.

Moomin Light: Washington National Cathedral: The Gargoyles.

Via Talking Points Memo, a transcript at Theuptake of an interview with the woman McCain interrupted and corrected, who was calling Obama either an Arab or an Arab terrorist, depending on whose account you believe (the video only shows the word “Arab,” but some observers say she added terrorist after the mic was cut or when she was too far away from the mic to be heard – “Arab terrorist” was the phrase Ana Marie Cox heard and reported). The woman is a volunteer at the McCain headquarters in Burnsville, and has been sending out flyers to random people in the phone book explaining that Obama’s one of those dangerous Arabs. She’s made this decision on her own, not at the direction of the campaign, but in a context where she says that “a lot of” campaign volunteers where she works believe the same things she does, and where she seems not to have registered that McCain himself really doesn’t share her mistaken belief that Obama is an Arab and a Muslim (and that these things make him scary and dangerous).

The Times Online reports that McCain tussles with Palin over mob mentality. I’m a bit skeptical of this one – it’s customary for the Presidential candidate to be given the high minded statements while the VP candidate gets the attack dog ones – but you can read it and judge for yourself.

Iceland is different from the US department: The wife of the president of Iceland says “I have yet to meet someone who does not want a naked picture of their loved ones with text about themselves.” Via Crooked Timber.

*Christopher on Coming Out or Resting In?: Queer in the House of the Lord.

Al Muhajabah: kind of scary.

Islamicate: Event: Art of the Qur’an.

Jana Remy: not afraid.

The Economist: When fortune frowned. Good discussion of the current financial crisis, with historical perspective from other financial crises in various countries.

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