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I've been busy. So, take a look at Archpundit who, I've just noticed, has taken up the topic of the IL-10th race which many pundits are calling up for grabs at this point.

I'll add one thing. Bush vetoed the Farm Bill, the one with the school lunches, conservation programs and the increase in food stamps. Kirk voted against the bill and is unlikely to help override the veto. So, the question of the day is when will Mark Kirk take the Food Stamp Challenge and see what it's like to eat on $21/week?

OK, I'll add two things. Here's another article about Kirk's attack on the internet by Gary Arlen, editor of Technology Today. It refers to Kirk's "legislative grandstanding" and his "particularly myopic" goals. The writer should add Kirk's continued votes against equal pay, extensions of unemployment and his general support for an economy that forces parents to get multiple jobs and be away from home and not monitoring their children's web use.

I ventured into Second Life for a trial run. I found the place fairly boring and I floated around alone most of the time pretty much in empty space. You can put your avatar in fly or walk mode. I learned how to sit my avatar down and stand it up again too and saw no technology available for moving an avatar into internet sex. There were a few areas of interesting music, jazz and alternative. While pornographic material is probably available for those seeking it out, what I stumbled upon, without looking for anything in particular, were commerical areas where people are trying to sell goods and get tips for services like providing music. The place is more like ebay with cute avatars than anything else and I think that's what Second Life is going for, the buck.

Again, if parents were not working 2 or 3 jobs to keep theor families housed, fed and insured, they'd be watching that their kids don't end up talking to strangers on the Internet. Since Kirk, like his buddy Bush, thinks we should all be serfs to large corporations, it seems he wants government to raise your children. I thought republicans hated the idea of It Takes a Village, the whole controversy republicans started when Hillary Clinton wrote that book about raising children in a community. They said "it takes a parent", but then worked to take parents out of the home almost 24/7. So, I guess, to Mark, it doesn't take a village or a parent, it takes a right wing wacko government to raise your child.