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“If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without…let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves.

Bill Hobbs points to a survey showing a surprising number of people who think that the shenanigans that surround elective politics should extend to the Supreme Court:

William Howard Hobbs has quite the interesting post regarding race in the race for the White House. First, he is ecstatic that only 40% of African Americans believe that John McCain would have policies that favor whites over blacks.

Tennessee voters going to the polls next month may be surprised to find that, in addition to congressional and state legislative race primaries they are asked to vote in a handful of judicial races. Well, not really "races," but "retention elections" for a handful of appointed state Supreme Court and appellate court judges.

So, lots of us actually reading things online today are “the ones who did not go to BlogHer Con.”

The ones who are going will probably be busy travelling to San Fransisco and settling in for the start of the conference on the 18th.

Look over the track listing for Guitar Hero 2, due out September, and you'll see a very impressive collection of rock songs (it's in this press release, scroll down).

Matthew Yglesias nuzzles political cliches to his bosom:

Interesting take on a recent story on GMA.

It always cracks me up to watch shows like this because I know that for a great many of we the little people, we can't get any health care, let alone top quality, cutting edge, annual or "regular" medical services.

We shall see: