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…

Keith Burgess-Jackson offers his philosophy of voting and makes his case for Bush.

Jim Henley goes deeper into the foibles of the liberal hawks: Now a lot of the disenchanted liberal hawks I know complain less about brutality than about mismanagement. In this they take their lead from the Kerry campaign, which has focused its criticism on the Bush administration’s incompetence and “failure to win the peace.” Complain…

The “liberal hawks” who plumped for war with Iraq are now deserting the president in droves. Andrew Sullivan, Paul Bermam, et al. have endorsed Kerry rather than the man who acted on their vision. Is this just fair-weather hawkery or something worse? Reason’s Tim Cavanaugh says: These days, none of those luminaries can summon a…