off to work

A couple of quickies before I head to work:

Moveon.org sponsored a contest to create the best 30 second anti-Bush television ad. These are the finalists. There are two of which I am particularly fond, but many are worth checking out. The celebrity judge panel is pretty impressive.

I have been reading The Federalist Papers at work. These two passages from Federalist 35, seemed a bit ironic these days:

Where the qualifications of the electors are the same, whether they have to choose a small or a large number, their votes will fall upon those in whom they have most confidence; whether these happen to be men of large fortunes, or of moderate property, or of no property at all....

Will not the merchant understand and be disposed to cultivate, as far as may be proper, the interests of the mechanic and manufacturing arts, to which his commerce is so nearly allied? Will not the man of the learned profession, who will feel a neutrality to the rivalships between the different branches of industry, be likely to prove an impartial arbiter between them, ready to
promote either, so far as it shall appear to him conducive to the general interests of the society?

Must remember ID...