Saturday Morning Blog Roundup

I’ve not done this before, but I’ve been thinking that it might be fun.

If you read nothing else today go here and read Julia’s beautiful essay on why NO ONE must “sit out” November, whether your candidate is nominated or not. It is one of the best things I’ve read on this election yet.

If you’re ready for some rudeness you can go over to The Rude Pundit, where I found this little snippet this morning:

Sure, sure, Ohio was clearly a Clinton victory. But that Texas win? Well, let’s hear from rude reader CW:

“I can tell you that Clinton did not *win* the popular vote in Texas. We are the state of the 19-percenters, Huckabee-lovers and Hagee. Republicans knew that McCain would win Ohio and since in Texas we have open primaries, the RNC, Texas Repubs and Rush had been telling all their zombies to vote Clinton because they think they can beat her. My own mother, who hasn’t voted for a Democrat for 40 years, told me that she voted for Hillary because ‘you know, I support McCain, so I voted for her like everyone else up here.’ My mother wasn’t our only contact to verify our suspicions. All those rural counties with few votes…Republicans to the core and they HATE Hillary with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. Although I live in an Obama county near the George HW Bush Presidential Library, we must have had a huge number of crossovers ourselves because Huckabee nearly beat McCain here.”

Oh, and I just found this:

In this exclusive extract from his new book, Philip Shenon uncovers how the White House tried to hide the truth of its ineptitude leading up to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Also, over at the UH Union Blog Justine Bateman writes about the upcoming SAG contract with the AMPTP and how it’s relationship with AFTRA may affect that negotiation. It’s a good read.The video is Tony Furtado, who is an artist that I was just introduced to this morning and who I hope to see perform live one day.