This makes me sad. I’ve met the PFAW execs, and Brad, and they are all “good guys.” I sincerely hope that they can work this out. To me, this is the problem with blogs- people often skim, make assumptions about them, don’t really do the in-depth reading needed to properly contextualize what is written in them. Brad isn’t a crazy person, and he’s not “extreme” in his views nor does he make CT claims. He has a standard he wants enforced, as I suspect most would, if they understood what it is he avocates. PFAW should clarify and correct what they’ve said about him. He’s a big heart, and wouldn’t hold a grudge. Let’s all just try to get along, shall we?

Christ. At least the Times and ABC picked this up, for once. Sid said yesterday, when asked by a particularly long winded activist on the topic, paper is the only way. Let’s all come to our senses and admit that we need real reform, yesterday. If the elections don’t come out the way all the polls are saying they will, no one can claim they weren’t warned:

Another stunning security breach has been exposed in our nation’s electoral system, The BRAD BLOG has learned, as the online voter registration database — containing the personal information of some 1.5 million voters in Chicago — has been found to be vulnerable to both downloading and hacking.

The flawed electronic database which allowed the retrieval and modification of personal voter information — including social security numbers and birthdates of Chicago voters — was discovered recently by members of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project (IBIP), a non-partisan group of Election Integrity advocates.

IBIP members say they were not only able to get full editing access to the online database, they also found they could modify the records for registered voters, setting them to inactive and otherwise changing addresses and other key information fields.
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While some of you may have heard that the Blogosphere is controlled by the uberfascist sushi eating rabid Lambmaster Kos, here at Corrente, our first loyalty will be to His Majesty of the Grey Turtleneck, may he rule forever, amen. Who has proven once again why we’ll never be anything more than a bunch of kids in pajamas typing fever induced swampiness from parental basements in flyover land. How will we every get Rahm to take us seriously? Clearly, Atrios, you’re killing the party.  Read more 

They say “if” and “could” and “may” aplenty, but I’m still as happy as I can be with the report; it is TV we’re talking about after all. Go watch the short video that Loud Obbs and his girl pal Kitty put together. Yeah, Brad! You look serious, sober, believable, and otherwise like the Champ you are. Good Job!