It's no news to Kosmopolitans that Charles Krauthammer raises douchebaggery to new and exquisite heights.  What may be new is his snipe at Christopher Reeve in this New Yorker profile of Reeve from last year:

I dunno if this is old news (is there a way to search just the diaries to make sure one doesn't double-post?), but I saw this tonight via Warren Ellis's Die Puny Humans:

Pending Draft Legislation Targeted for Spring 2005

The Draft will Start in June 2005

So, because I like to think that my vote will be counted, I'm going permanent absentee voter this year.  I've got my ballot in my hot little hand, and I'm all keyed up to vote and get this thing out the door.  Only problem is that I have no idea how to vote, especially on the ballot initiatives.  There won't be any discussions about this in the local papers or on "Life & Times" any time soon.  I already know not to pay any attention to the pro and con arguments that come in my voter guide.  So why not turn the quibbling over to my fellow Kossians?

...I'd like us to copy the Republicans.

No.  Really.

I want to know that the money we donate to the DNC and the DCCC et al is doing three things:

-We are building up an army of good Democratic candidates
-We are building up and shoring up our base
-We are building up a volunteer machine that will make the Republicans wet their pants in terror

Apparently, Bill Bennet feels that it's okay for him to come out from his Glass House of Virtues (TM) and start throwing stones again.  His target?  Gay marriage, of course.  (Via the LA Times.  Login/pass: blowmetrib)