October 25, 2007 Blog Roundup and Open Thread

by jsw [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Today's not-the-fires Blog Roundup is on the flip. I thought about doing the fun categorization thing, but (a) there aren't all that many posts, and (b) I've gone through right around 1,000 posts just for blog roundup in the last 2 days, not counting any reading I've done on my own account. My eyes are a little glazed over. So, it's just a link dump.

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• New Redistricting Initiative Designed to Fail ? Courts
  Would Redraw Districts for 2012 - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/new_redistricti.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/new_redistricti.html
• California Policy Inbox ? Blog Archive ? New Report Details
  the High Cost of Living in California
  
  http://inbox.berkeley.edu/?p=389
• The Democratic Daily ? Hillary Draws a Crowd in Fresno,
  Speaks of Change (Video)
  
  href="http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2007/10/23/hillary-draws-a-crowd-in-fresno-speaks-of-change-video/">http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2007/10/23/hillary-draws-a-crowd-in-fresno-speaks-of-change-video/
• CA 11: Dean Andal: first look
  
  href="http://ca-11.blogspot.com/2007/10/dean-andal-first-look.html">http://ca-11.blogspot.com/2007/10/dean-andal-first-look.html
• The Democratic Daily ? GOP Revives Electoral Grab in CA
  
  href="http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2007/10/23/gop-revives-electoral-grab-in-ca/">http://thedemocraticdaily.com/2007/10/23/gop-revives-electoral-grab-in-ca/
• SFist: Happy Birthday, Smurfs
  
  http://sfist.com/2007/10/23/happy_birthday_1.php
• LAist: LAist Interview: Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday
  
  http://laist.com/2007/10/23/laist_interview_57.php
• SFist: Your Mecke Photo Fix for the Day
  
  http://sfist.com/2007/10/23/your_hot_quinti.php
• The Bayne of Blog's - California Notes: Denham recall is
  "alive and well."
  
  href="http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/10/denham-recall-is-alive-and-well.html">http://blog.bayneweb.com/2007/10/denham-recall-is-alive-and-well.html
• SoHum Parlance: Agent provocateurs or just civility
  challenged morons?
  
  href="http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/10/agent-provocateurs-or-just-civility.html">http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/10/agent-provocateurs-or-just-civility.html
• News & Politics: The Snitch - Berkeley Cell Tower
  Haters: This Lawsuit Should Come in Nice and Clear
  
  href="http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2007/10/berkeley_cell_tower_haters_thi.php">http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2007/10/berkeley_cell_tower_haters_thi.php
• The Progressive Connection:: Pete Stark Speaks For Me
  
  href="http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=154">http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=154
• Pacific Views: California's Magical Policy for Lower Energy
  Consumption
  
  http://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/003136.html
• BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News
  ? Migden Hijacks Milk Club; Meeting Ends in Chaos
  
  href="http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5038#more">http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5038#more
• BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News
  ? Early Progressives Catch the Worm
  
  href="http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5037#more">http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5037#more
• Draft Voter Guide for February Presidential Primary is
  Available for Public Inspection - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/draft_voter_gui.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/draft_voter_gui.html
• Schwarzenegger Regulations Won?t Stop Insurers' Illegal
  Cancellations of Health Policies and Will Compound Problems with His
  Mandatory Health Insurance Plan - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/schwarzenegger_59.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/schwarzenegger_59.html
• Schrag: Federal DREAM Act Up for Vote Today--Why Isn't
  Schwarzenegger Demanding Its Passage? - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/schrag_federal.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/schrag_federal.html
• The California Majority Report // Today's Fresh Meat
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2373">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2373
• The California Majority Report // Clinton's Lead Grows in
  LA Times Poll
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2375">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2375
• Badlands Journal ? Blog Archive ? For shame
  
  http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=401
• As President Bush is About to Visit California, New Field
  Poll Shows only 27% Approval in State - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/as_president_bu.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/as_president_bu.html
• Scanner detecting traces of intelligent life on Capitol
  Hill, Captain! | Needlenose
  
  http://www.needlenose.com/node/view/4395
• Captain Future's Dreaming Up Daily: This North Coast Place:
  MAXXed Out
  
  href="http://dreamingup.blogspot.com/2007/10/this-north-coast-place-maxxed-out.html">http://dreamingup.blogspot.com/2007/10/this-north-coast-place-maxxed-out.html
• BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News
  ? Migden Says Milk Club Fiasco "Went Fine"
  
  href="http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5044#more">http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5044#more
• New California Field Poll: Giuliani Slipping With
  Republican
  Primary Voters Amidst Evidence that Democrats Are More Satifsifed with
  Their Candidates - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/new_california_1.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/new_california_1.html
• The California Majority Report // Today's Fresh Meat
  
  href="http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2379">http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=9&aid=2379
• The Mad Professah Lectures: Arnold Getting Hit From Both
  Sides Over Condoms Veto
  
  href="http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/10/arnold-getting-hit-from-both-sides-over.html">http://buckmire.blogspot.com/2007/10/arnold-getting-hit-from-both-sides-over.html
• California Healthy Families Program Considers Emergency
  Regulations in Light of SCHIP Veto by Bush and Override Failure -
  California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/california_heal_9.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/california_heal_9.html
• Could Global Warming Melt the Insurance Glaciers in
  California? - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/could_global_wa.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/could_global_wa.html
• Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog ? Newspaper Endangers
  Workers, Public, to Score a Political Point
  
  href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/25/newspaper-endangers-workers-public-to-score-a-political-point/">http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/25/newspaper-endangers-workers-public-to-score-a-political-point/
• The Progressive Connection:: Dr. Phil Joins AD-14 Race
  
  href="http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=155">http://www.theprogressiveconnection.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=155
• SoHum Parlance: Looking for reports on the Harbor
  Commission debate last night
  
  href="http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/10/looking-for-reports-on-harbor.html">http://redwoodreality.blogspot.com/2007/10/looking-for-reports-on-harbor.html
• SFist: Aaron "Payback's a Bitch" Peskin Tries to Slash SF's
  Environment Dept.
  
  http://sfist.com/2007/10/25/aaron_patybacks.php
• Yeah, But Democrats Stole the Election For Kennedy 47 Years
  Ago (So Anything Done by the G.O.P. is OK) - California Progress Report
  
  href="http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/yeah_but_democr.html">http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/10/yeah_but_democr.html