Pikers:  An emerging segment of highly engaged, tech-savvy, and vocal voters is poised to impact the outcome of the 2008 national elections, according to new research from Yahoo!, HCD Research, and Hall and Partners. The study, entitled “The Rise of Citizen 2.0: Radically Rethinking Democracy in the Digital Age,” examines the changing role of the Internet in shaping political activity and discourse. “Citizen 2.0” represents a slight majority (51 percent)

While I’ve been mucking about here, my friends over at Bloody Scott are either being swamped by extraordinary tides, or suffering from internal bleeding.  I feel terrible for having ignored them for so long.  Driving to work this morning I thought I’d better spend part of the weekend catching up, and so I shall. Hang in there, furriskey.  Get to high ground, Frank.

Why not just place hidden cameras in all of them, so that these he-said, she-said incidents can be submitted to arbitration by the High Court of Political Corrections? A professor’s alleged remarks in September set off an investigation at Brandeis University that has left some faculty members skeptical, students divided and the class itself monitored — for the time being — by an administrator. The incident recalls one this year

75 real people for 72 imaginary virgins?  Afghanistan’s deadliest suicide attack since the Taliban regime’s ouster killed 59 schoolchildren, while 96 other students were wounded in the blast, the Education Ministry spokesman said Friday. The attack in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday killed at least 75 people. The dead children were ages eight to 18, said Zahoor Afghan, an Education Ministry spokesman. Five teachers were also among those

David Thompson directs us to a new site dedicated to collocating all the genres of moonbattery in one centralized location.  It thus becomes a daily must-read for those who enjoy their looniness piping hot.  Darleen has some thoughts on this, as well. Very decent of him: Chad Releases Spaniards, Belgian News you can use: Fundamentals of Zombology (h/t Reynolds, who calls them prehistoric, though the article shows zombie-representing hierogyphics, neener-neener)

Liz Stephans with free t-shirts at Blog World Expo, courtesy of Instapundit. Look closely and you’ll see her famous handbag in the photo. The handbag that hangs from her shoulder. O, fortunate handbag!

has progressives hallucinating motives. Only six months ago advisor Joe Trippi joined the Edwards campaign, and the argument could be made this new pitbull strategy for Edwards has at least a little to do with Trippi’s presence. In 2004 Trippi worked for then-frontrunner Howard Dean, who engaged in a bloody battle with Dick Gephardt while John Kerry slipped past the both of them. According to Alegre’s source close to Dean,

Hey, is that Roger Simon? (Blog World Goes Pajamas) Call (900) PAJAMAS now! Hot internet girls are dying to read YOUR BLOG! If I didn’t have such an absurd webcrush on Liz, I’d probably still have one on Mary Katharine. Somalis delighted to discover Ethiopians can be killed. The body of an Ethiopian soldier killed in clashes Thursday between troops and Islamic insurgents was dragged through the street and pelted

Good triumphs over evil! Also, Christmas shopping made easy.

Another female teacher-middle school student romance goes awry, it seems. Fairness doctrine: cradle-robbing story followed by grave-robbing one. This is kind of cuffed up, too. Presumably someone was surprised by a Gorilla Gram.