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Gore Endorses Dean
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Josh Marshall is stunned.

Bloggers everywhere are agog.

At CalPundit and at Daily Kos, armchair pundits (much like myself) read elaborate Machiavellian intentions and ramifications into the move.

In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, Al Gore has apparently decided to endorse Howard Dean tomorrow.

To me, this is unexpected, but not mystifying or nonsensical, by any stretch. Over and over again these past few months, Gore has indicated a desire to reach the exact same demographic that is currently falling all over itself for the good doctor — the young, tech-savvy, anti-war types that continue to make people stand up and notice Dean’s campaign. Gore’s and Dean’s most prized audiences align almost perfectly; it seems like a perfect fit to me.

Why all the shock?

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The Dean/Clark Question
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Dean/Clark.

Dean/Clark.

Quite the intriguing ticket. The combination has almost a dramatic potency. Dean, whichever way you slice it, has a record of actually accomplishing his prioritized goals against political odds, rare in recent Democratic observance. And of course his campaign itself is a phenomenon. Clark is, quite simply, an

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The Fabulist
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Is it possible to make a movie out of someone like Stephen Glass and not glorify him?

My strongest reaction to seeing “Shattered Glass” yesterday is the desire to read all of his fabricated stories from The New Republic. Seeing as how the magazine has removed those articles from its web archives, and my curiosity isn’t strong enough to fuel a visit to an actual library to read the articles, I have to satisfy myself with reading the transcript of his 60 Minutes interview, a few of his former associates’ takes on his new novel and movie, and his [partially? completely?] fabricated work for Harper’s.

“Shattered Glass” anticipates these impulses, and spends its second half punishing me for having them. For thinking that Peter Sarsgaard’s two-dimensional Chuck Lane really is humorless and self-righteous. And that even if Hayden Christensen’s Stephen Glass is a conniving psychopath, he’s also a clever, self-deprecating wunderkind whose imagination only outstripped his conscience. (And besides, the chap had the decency to provide us with a name divinely outfitted for plays-on-words

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Lofty Presidential Discourse
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OK, I’m not going to agree that this is anything resembling a “must-read” article, as the Note pegged it, but hee! John Edwards made a your-mother joke to Joe Lieberman!

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Procreation Schmocreation
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The short version of this post: Marriage is about responsibility, not reproduction.

I intend to disembowl Jeffrey Rosen’s straw-man-laden, equivocating ghettoric from yesterday’s TNR Digital with a dull machete in due time. But first off, let’s define one term central to this debate:

Procreation. You will hear many, many times in the near-future the argument that gay unions aren’t entitled to state protection, because of the state’s “compelling interest in fostering procreation.”

Savor that little statement for a moment. Let it tiptoe on your tongue. Chew it gently. Spit it out.

What, exactly, could the state’s interest in fostering procreation look like? I picture official State Department broadcasts featuring Colin Powell crooning “Feelin’ On Yo’ Booty” while Katherine Harris twerks it on the White House lawn in a “Capitol Hill Is For Lovers” baby tee.

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Matt-rimony
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The MA Ruling:

What did the court actually do?: The Massachusetts Supreme Court court said to the state legislature, and I quote, “This whole only-straight-people-get-the-pretty-cake business is a load of bull-honky.” They gave the legislature 180 days to create a civil marriage status for gays with the exact same legal rights and privileges as heterosexual marriage.

What could happen next?: The Mass. legislature has two choices

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Frabjous Day
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I hope you’ve heard the good news. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has finally handed down their long-anticipated ruling that denying gay couples the privileges of marriage violates the state Constitution.

And now comes the hard part.

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This Is Not a Washington Post Article
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Is it, do you think, that The Washington Post is attempting to eradicate its image as one of the austere Grey Ladies with this substanceless black hole of absence parading as a column, complete with a paragraph-long paean to Wesley Clark’s nose? Are they trying to take the A out of “staid” and replace it with a big ol’ U.P.?

Is it not a sign of the end times that this report appeared on a section front page?

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That Damned Dean
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I understand the establishment Democrats (registration req’d.) are frightened about Howard Dean possibly becoming the Democratic nominee in 2004. And I agree, there’s a very real chance he could be nominated and get completely Punk’d by Karl Rove, Destroyer of Worlds, eventually dying friendless and alone in a Shaker commune, clutching his Joe Trippi doll.

But come now.

Marvel at the rhetorical contortionism some columnists demonstrate in portraying Howard Dean as the True Emerging Evil of the 2004 elections.

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