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It just shouldn't be 82 degrees in New England near 11 o'clock at night. Yuck.

NYT endorses Ned Lamont over Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Aug. 8 Democratic primary in Conn. A Senate Race in Connecticut is tough, and blunt. After documenting Sen. Lieberman's recent public stands, the paper concludes,

There is no use having a senator famous for getting along with Republicans if he never challenges them on issues of profound importance.

If Mr. Lieberman had once stood up and taken the lead in saying that there were some places a president had no right to take his country even during a time of war, neither he nor this page would be where we are today. But by suggesting that there is no principled space for that kind of opposition, he has forfeited his role as a conscience of his party, and has forfeited our support.

Therefore,

We endorse Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary for Senate in Connecticut.

This may be a watershed moment, especially for the Times.

Related: After Sluggish Start, Lieberman Heeds Alarms

Trunk topiary : How To Grow A Chair: An Interview with Richard Reames. The art of training tree trunks while young.

You're the pros: This essay in Esquire by Chuck Klosterman is actually about a movie: The "Snakes on a Plane" Problem: The tragedy of the best titled movie in the history of film. But...

I worked in newspapers for eight years, right when that industry was starting to disintegrate. As such, we spent a lot of time talking with focus groups, forever trying to figure out what readers wanted. And here is what they wanted: everything. They wanted shorter stories, but also longer stories. They wanted more international news, but also more local news. And more in-depth reporting. And more playful arts coverage. And less sports. And more sports. And maybe some sports on the front page.

When it comes to mass media, it's useless to ask people what they want; nobody knows what they want until they have it.

You have to make your ideas, and hope some people will respond to them.

Portal:
Jeneane Sessum is all over BlogHer, the West Coast gathering of women bloggers going on right now.

See Liz Henry's running notes at HuffPost, too. The "get naked" post is women talking about the blog voices we put out there.

Happy birthday, Doc Searls! In Miles to Go he looks (briefly) at life and death, and moves on. We were born 27 days apart; I'm older. Sunday's his day.

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2 Comments

FDilion said:

The fact that certain mindless Democrats believe that espousing all the party's miserable viewpoints are more important than honesty, integrity, and clear thinking makes me angry. I am a loyal, registered Democrat, but I cannot approve of the whackos who now speak for the party. I shall vote for Joe Lieberman on August 8, not for the two-faced Ned Lamont. And I find that I am not at all alone in this point of view!

Link | July 30, 2006 5:32 PM
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Sheila said:

I think I am not alone in being bone weary of attitudes that see those who think differently from us as wrong, and even as wackos.

Authoritarian conservatism is merely a preference; honesty, integrity and clear thinking accompany many deeply held yet different political viewpoints.

In the Globe today, David Greenberg writes about the actual variety of opinions among those who call themselves Democrats:

Conventional wisdom divides the Democrats into two camps: liberals (who are supposedly backing Lamont) and centrists (sticking by Lieberman). But in truth, those who are often called liberals -- people who share the politics of The Nation magazine or filmmaker Michael Moore -- are really leftists. The so-called centrists, for their part, actually encompass several discrete groups: mainstream liberals, whose politics mirror those of your average Democratic senator; upscale ``neoliberals," who champion economic growth and technological policy solutions; and the Southerners and Westerners linked to the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, who tend to list rightward on social and foreign policy.

The American Experiment, the New World, is based on people of many different ethnic origins, religions and political beliefs respecting each other's differences in order to form a society centered on fulfilling our common human needs.

"Live and let live" seems closer to noble than dismissing and dissing those who aren't just like you.

Link | July 30, 2006 7:07 PM
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