Just a note for all you diarists out there: if you want to link to a liberal columnist from the NYT, Truthout subscribes to the Times wire service and carries Krugman, Herbert, Kristof, Frank Rich and MoDo.  This is nice because you can link to a free source for these important and influential columnists.

Just one more reason not to read the Times.

Over at the NYT we have a interesting story about the attitudes of American voters in the wake of GWB's reelection. The gist of the story is that people don't like Bush's policies and yet... They still voted for him. WTF? In the wake of the undecided voter story over at TNR I am totally confused about what motivates the American electorate. Does this mean that we need to have an affable good ol' boy backslapper of a candidate, no matter how vacuous?