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Thursday February 15, 2007 · 10:02 AM PST

2007/02/15 · 10:02

Before I get into the fun and profit of blogrolls, I will exercise the DailyKos Power of the Little Person to make a statement on The Blogroll Controversy just like the huge and powerful big bloggers. How to govern privately owned public spaces is an issue that rears its head regularly and is not limited to the web.

I don't offer a solution, but instead a question for each of us (including the huge and powerful bloggers) to ask. Are there parts of our lives where our actions do not match our espoused progressive values? George Lakoff writes in Moral Politics that "...not all citizens have coherent ideologies...It is normal for people to operate with multiple models in various domains." While we are liberal in politics, we can be conservative in how we deal with our family, work, or blog lives.

An example can be found in most American universities. Many faculty members espouse a liberal bent in their teaching, research and writing. Yet we sometimes see from these same liberal professors an almost feudal relationship with their students. Isn't it time for a bit of self-introspection to discover if parts of our lives are using conservative models that can be made more liberal?

Finally! Below the fold: Blogrolls for fun and profit!

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Tuesday February 13, 2007 · 5:04 AM PST

2007/02/13 · 05:04

After the January peace march, I stayed in our nation's capitol to lobby. My experience on Capitol Hill reminded me that people in Washington are no different than the rest of America. As we travel along the Bell Curve we see Congress members run the gamut of poorly informed, averagely informed (corporate media), or greatly informed (blogs, primary sources, and international press).

It's likely a Congress member, or her staff, may dismiss our stands on issues when they differ from the politicized intelligence or Washington group think perpetuated by the Bush administration, consultants and corporate media. From the blogosphere we know that there are far wider sources of information, analysis, and ideas that need to be read in order to form an accurate assessment of a situation. They are not dumb or dumber than us. They're just not as well read as us.

Do we need to change how we communicate with Congress? Will including links to sources that support our positions increase the likelihood that each staffer will take the time to become as informed about our issues as we are?

Below the fold see someone talk about her experience with Democratic Congress members and read about my experience with a staffer. Then help us decide the best way to educate Congress.

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Dumb and Dumber: House and Senate Democrats