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Two links from my friends page which caught my eye.

First, No pity. No shame. No silence. Personally I've never been a victim of violence, sexual or otherwise, which makes me very lucky. I still found the post very affecting and I want to support the idea of bringing the scope of this into the light. I've seen a few people on my friends list make this declaration and I want to bear witness.

Secondly, and completely unrelatedly, http://www.electoral-vote.com/, which is a predictor of the electoral college results, based on polls in all the states. I thought the graph of how the votes are shifting was particularly interesting - I noticed that the democrats actually took a dip after Farenheit 911 came out.

Third and last, a rant by swisstone about the King Arthur film and Arthurian scholarship generally. I do plan to see the film but the historical Arthur? Come off it!

Comments

Re. F911 (which I have finally seen)

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My take on this is that it's more likely to mobilize existing votes than to change minds - for those who have seen it, and they, by and large, would not be tribal Republicans anyway.

On the other hand, a lot of conservative (small 'c') voters who *haven't* and *wouldn't* see the film felt threatened by its very success (anything the cheese-loving surrender monkeys like, etc... yadda yadda).

As time went on you get word-of-mouth about the film (which seemed very carefully done so as to avoid any suggestion of Not Supporting The Troops) and the Democrats not suddenly turning into anarcho-communists overnight, the fear dies down, and people start thinking about "how much this war is costing" and "how are we going to do without all the reservists we employ" and so on - and bingo! Up goes the Democrat vote again.