This begins a new (more-or-less) weekly feature at If I Ran the Zoo: a brief roundup of some worthwhile (and largely overlooked) posts by our fellow Z-list bloggers. There's some good stuff out there:
- Bulworth on the authoritarian mindset: "The recent elections have offered us a reprieve, but have not, as some would hope, spelled the end of the creeping authoritarianism to which all societies are tempted."
- jhupp of Unique Like Everybody on religious tests: "Mr. Prager is asking Ellison, in effect, to do one of two things: either tacitly state that American and Muslim values cannot be the same, or tacitly state that his own values are born of the Christian Bible. The former undermines his office and the office of any future Muslim Congressman; the latter undermines his own faith."
- Shiltone of The King's Stilts on National Meth Awareness Day: "What is it about this administration that it resembles a business run entirely by the legal and marketing departments?"
- Skimble on the First Lady's holiday menu: "Is Sofia Coppola available to film Laura Bush's life story?"
- Craig of Donkey Path on bringing environmental issues back to the foreground: "If we value something, it creates demand, it creates jobs. If we value a clean environment, it will benefit us in the long run in more ways than one."
- Jonathan Kelley of Selfish Hedonist on the 50-State Strategy: "We won governorships. We won state legislative houses. THAT'S the sort of thing that helps Democrats over the long term....THAT is what will make the word "Democrat" (and even "liberal") less frightening to people in places like the West or in rural areas or in certain suburbs, or even the South."
[That's all, folks]
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