LINKS: Centerfield and New Covenant.
Picking the shortest post on a blog that does really (really) good long posts, there's this interesting bit about the importance of swing voters. I wholeheartedly agree, though would like to point out one thing further: all of the states which could be reasonably described as 'swing states' (New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and possibly Oregon as well) all went Democratic in 2000*. Even if they win all of those, and win back West Virginia, the Democratic candidate would still lose the general election. Obviously, swing voters in swing states does not a winning strategy make.
*you could make a plausible case that W. Virginia will swing back (highly likely), and it's generally true that no one knows what will happen with Nevada, but I'm not really counting those for present purposes.
New Covenant's post on existentialism and Christianity is interesting, except that it again identifies existentialism only with its Camus-ian variety. A great number of the suppositions of, say, a Kierkegaard would be wildly unobjectionable to most Christians.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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