Managed not to lose all my sidebar links this time. The white was getting a little drab I thought.

From Jesse Walker at Reason’s Hit and Run blog: The media’s line is that Bush’s reelection turned on the culture war. I don’t know whether that’s true, but it’s plausible; conservative Christians turned out in Ohio to vote against gay marriage, and that may have made the difference between a national victory for Bush and…

The pollsters are telling us that a significant number of voters (~22%) cited “moral values” as their preeminent concern, more than any other issue. “Moral values” here means “hot-button” issues like gay marriage and abortion. I’m not going to complain about people voting on these issues; I certainly think they are legitimate matters of public…

The New Pantagruel has posted its issue for Fall 2004. Looks like another batch of quality articles to sink your teeth into. They’ve also published a letter from yours truly. See here and scroll down to “On Not Voting.”

I would say that this challenge from Tom at Disputations applies to all Christians, indeed all people of good will. Politicians, however necessary their services may be, aren’t going to fix the world for us.

Marcus at A Green Conservatism makes a valiant attempt to vote for Ralph Nader.

Despite all the dire predictions of voter fraud, voter intimidation, malfunctioning machines and a replay of Florida (or worse) all over again, the election seems to have gone off relatively smoothly and resulted in a clear, if not terribly substantial, victory for the President. It reminds me of the hysterical cries of impending Apocalypse on…

…but it looks like my guy David Cobb is not going to pull it off. Oh well, there’s always 2008!

From the LA Times: “There’s no way I’m going for Bush. That much I know,” said Moore, 46. He remains undecided between Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts and a third-party candidate. … Others are like Joe Urcavich, pastor of the nondenominational evangelical Green Bay Community Church, where more than 2,000 people worship each…

Well, my civic duty has been fulfilled. I got up early this morning and made it to the polls by 7. Curiously, in my racially mixed neighborhood everyone at the polling place seemed to be a white middle-class professional or college student. The mood was monolithically pro-Kerry. If anyone there was voting for Bush, they…