Jay discusses at LitW and Mark has some (pre-results) analysis.
It looks like it’s good that he lost. The “dictator for life” label one of the chages is getting is kinda silly, but there are other authoritarian moves. Says HRW:
However, this proposal would still allow the president to suspend other fundamental due process guarantees, including the [...]

It’s apparently the anniversary of Che Guevara’s death. Or it was yesterday. The hero of half-witted leftists and t-shirt manufacturers everywhere is being honored. Hooray.
Then again, completely ineffective communists are the best kind, aren’t they?

For some reason, the current front page over at Hit & Run (I have resisted their libertarianism for at least a year and a half, which is a good sign) is loaded with interesting/depressing news. A British labor union endorsing Hugo Chavez, George Will’s shrill screed on a free speech case he happens to be [...]

Can you leave Islam? In Malaysia, not so much.
Lina Joy, 42, had fought the decisions of Malaysia’s lower courts in an effort to have the word “Islam” removed from her identity card, arguing that the constitution guaranteed her religious freedom.
But the panel of three judges decided, in a majority verdict, that it had no power [...]

Mickey Mouse is a jihadist. Nothing is sacred.
(via Ezra Klein)

This week is going to be fun. Not only is the project I’m on at work going to be largely complete, two days this week will consist of me doing nothing but learning Python from this guy. I don’t get to attend the third day of training, but it’ll still be fun.
In other news, Beryl [...]

How could it all go so wrong:
The military regime in Burma is intent on wiping out Christianity in the country, according to claims in a secret document believed to have been leaked from a government ministry. Entitled “Programme to destroy the Christian religion in Burma”, the incendiary memo contains point by point instructions on how [...]

I have a post on the issue over at Montana Netroots. Go read it if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

I haven’t said anything about this, so with a ceasefire looming, I thought I should.
Mike has an interesting post advocating the ouster of Olmert. In it, he cites an article in Ha’aretz:
There is no mistake Ehud Olmert did not make this past month. He went to war hastily, without properly gauging the outcome. He blindly [...]

Matt Yglesias makes an excellent point against Dershowitz’s application of his “continuum.” Again, Dershowitz is right to note that there is some moral ambiguity in what are civilian deaths, but calling anyone who doesn’t leave an area which Israel wants to bomb complicit is absolutely wrong.
As Matt points out, Dershowitz’s claim essentially erases the distinction [...]