links for 2008-09-22

  • Mr. McCain's selection of an inexperienced and relatively unknown figure was unsettling, and the campaign's decision to keep her sequestered from serious interchanges with reporters and voters serves only to deepen the unease.
  • "people who are particularly sensitive to signals of visual or auditory threats also tend to adopt a more defensive stance on political issues, such as immigration, gun control, defense spending and patriotism. People who are less sensitive to potential threats, by contrast, seem predisposed to hold more liberal positions on those issues."
    The thesis goes on to postulate that this instinct is the root of the politics of fear that supposedly works so well on conservatives.
  • A workflow for creating WordPress themes.
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