Blogs abuzzin' today

I’m getting lots of google hits for that Garrison Keillor piece, "How to Break the Political Fever" that I’ve posted about, which is understandable. Good piece. But even the morning after the election, I had a googler searching here for “santa speedo” (posted about last December, on the Boston Santa Speedo Run) and another for “boobs” (must have been the Janet Jackson thing – I also regularly get searches for “party boobs” and “house party boobs” etc. all the time – SORRY TO DISAPPOINT!! As my friends can attest to, it's ironic anyone would come to me looking for boobs). It’s kinda heartening, though, ain’t it? On the morning after this political disaster, there are people out there searching for beefcake and boobs. It reminds me of that Larsen cartoon where there’s a city in flames and people running and cars jamming the streets and then there’s this dog with his nose to some spot on the ground, with the caption, “And then Ralph found something interesting.”

By the way, my favorite recent google search here was “how to escape from a bad party”. Uh, this was pre-election, so don’t be reading anything political into that! Anyway, I wish I could have helped.

Speaking of politics, I’m encouraged by the amount of energy I’ve seen being expressed around the blogosphere around asserting political power for the nearly half of all American voters who didn’t give the Bush and the neo-cons the “mandate” they’re claiming. A couple of articles that several people have pointed to are on Slate: here and here. Daily Kos is abuzz with ideas. And as Andrea says, “We are a smart party, people.” We’ll figure it out. I also hope that the moderate Republicans can gain back their own party. Anyone see Bill Weld (former Republican governor of Mass.) on The Daily Show election night? I miss that kind of fiscally conservative, socially liberal kind of Republican. I voted for that kind of Republican. It’s these extremists that make me crazy. But I can see light in the darkness, and it's keeping me warm.

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