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another interesting bit via Instapundit, a discussion on cross-ideological dating.

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and to avoid spamming the flist, there's this bit about the DNC's actions in Florida re the presidential primary. i confess i don't get the point, one way or the other, about who's first or last. anybody smarter than me wanna take a crack at explaining why this is either good or bad?

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who says it's not working?

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another interesting bit via Instapundit, a discussion on cross-ideological dating.

eta:

and to avoid spamming the flist, there's this bit about the DNC's actions in Florida re the presidential primary. i confess i don't get the point, one way or the other, about who's first or last. anybody smarter than me wanna take a crack at explaining why this is either good or bad?

eta again:

who says it's not working?

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'Good proletarian seeking lifelong companion to make world revolution together'

They don't have political freedom. Their newspapers and Web sites are censored and filtered. The great movement for democracy that had produced the Tiananmen demonstrations of 1989 is well past and shows no signs of a revival. But the Chinese have won the right to be as acquisitively bourgeois as they want to be, and one attribute of being bourgeois is to want pretty things, including a pretty wife or handsome husband.

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'Good proletarian seeking lifelong companion to make world revolution together'

They don't have political freedom. Their newspapers and Web sites are censored and filtered. The great movement for democracy that had produced the Tiananmen demonstrations of 1989 is well past and shows no signs of a revival. But the Chinese have won the right to be as acquisitively bourgeois as they want to be, and one attribute of being bourgeois is to want pretty things, including a pretty wife or handsome husband.