Short bits

War and Piece covers the possibilities of Kerry foreign policy. (Don’t remember where I stumbled across this one.) The NYT has the text of Al Sharpton’s speech. Quite good, really. (Thanks, Kristie.)

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!

Yes, it really exists. Quick, somebody buy me a drink or something.

Barack Obama & the National Review

The National Review has a reaction piece to Barack Obama’s speech posted online that’s worth a good look. You can also read the speech text from Obama’s campaign site. For those of you who missed it Tuesday night: Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Illinois who’s pretty much a shoo-in by [...]

3rd Congressional District recap

Those of you in the Third Missouri Congressional District may appreciate this rundown of how the Democratic candidates may fare in next week’s primary. Personally, I’m a Jeff Smith boy; he just has this aura about him. (It’s almost as though Bobby Kennedy were shrunk down and given a Napoleonic complex as motivation.) And I [...]

The Abominable Shellfish

Carl points us to this slacktivist post on why many otherwise-literalist Christians feel free to neglect kosher. Check the linkage, too; it’s quite good.