Brain Fertilizer

For balance, it might behoove folks to read the whole thing.

Ah, yes. Balance.
There's a big difference between a confrontation in a parking lot and taking direct action to vandalize private property to stop people from voting.
Let's say you and I get a shouting match over our voting. Does that give you the right to disqualify 3,000 military votes for Bush? Is that balance?

Overheated arguments are not good, no. But the people were there and were directly accountable for their actions, and we have no idea what brought about the altercation. Perhaps the Kerry supporters had just attempted to run them down, like that Democrat in Florida who tried to run down Kathleen Harris and some Republicans down in Florida? We don't know, and we can't know.
To assume these are two sides of the same coin is absolutely wrong, in my opinion.

"Meanwhile, Milwaukee police were called to a John Kerry campaign office, 633 S. Hawley Road, at 5:40 a.m. because at least two people were blocking the parking lot exit, preventing Kerry supporters from leaving the parking lot and screaming and spitting on cars, said Sgt. Willie Murphy."

Sounds like a get-out-the-vote effort being thwarted to me.

All I am saying is, both sides are behaving in a rather juvenile fashion. it's not balanced to show the ugliness one side without pointing out the error of the other...especially when it's in the same article. But, blogs are rarely balanced anyway, I suppose.

I spent my Sunday replacing vandalized signs. It sucked. Last night, went to a traffic visibility event. A guy rolled down his window and yelled, "vote BUSH, motherfuckers!" FWIW, I was standing there with a "Ficek for state rep" sign.

It's not like I only pasted the first paragraph, tho, right? Anyone who clicked through could read the same article.

And after you replaced stolen signs and heard someone use an expletive, you went and replaced sod on the grass in which Republicans burned swastikas on Democrat lawns, and replaced plate glass through which bullets had been fired at Democrat campaign HQs, and rubbed the bruise on your shin after a Republican kicked you, right?

actually, the Republicans kicked my puppy. and my mom. Then I had to break out the pepper spray. :P

Well, Glenn Reynolds does put puppies in blenders. Duh.