(For the week of Oct. 29 to Nov. 4)***
"Nine tenths of education is encouragement." - Anatole France
"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." - Elizabeth Harrison
"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be." - Karen Ravn
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If you are listed below, thank you. Second, please feel free to use the button below on your own site for picks this week. Right click this image to get the URL. gif listed first, jpg second. If you link the image to your winning post that would be even better.
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POLITICS: Lisa McKay's Picks of the Week
Mike Kole, Blogcritic and Libertarian candidate for public office in Indiana, provides us with some interesting insights into the life of a candidate and the role of blogging in a campaign in Candidate's Diary Update. OCT. 29
In Alito: Right Wing Ideologue?, Fiona de Londras offers a well-researched assessment of Samuel Alito's qualifications for the Supreme Court and tells us why he's a good candidate for the job in spite of the fact that she doesn't share many of his views. NOV. 2
The Battle We Needed is a clear-eyed assessment by Drew McKissick of why the Alito nomination is a good thing for conservatives. NOV. 3
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CULTURE: Lisa Hoover's picks of the week
A Social Phenomenon: Medicating the Un-Medicated
It has long been known that Americans are, as a whole, a pretty medicated
bunch. Leslie Friesen let's us know that we're not alone anymore. In fact, soon our whole side of the hemisphere might be walking around in a Prozac haze and guess what will suffer the most? NOV. 4
Article comments
1 - Scott Butki
Congrats to those picked.
2 - Sterfish
Wow! I certainly didn't expect this! Thanks a lot and congrats to everyone else who was picked.
3 - Michael J. West
Thanks so much Temple, and Connie, I'm quite flattered!
Um, so I hope I'm not being ungrateful if I point out that the link on my article's title doesn't actually go to the article in question.
It goes here.
My actual article is here.
4 - Jenifer
Wow, thank you! And on my first piece! Better get crackin' on some more reviews (I've got two in the hopper right now!).
5 - Mike Kole
I appreciate the vote, er, pick! Linkage has been added to my blog.
6 - David Wester
Awesome. Thanks for the votes/picks.
7 - Matthew T. Sussman
Ooh, a "comment of the week." Methinks that should be a new feature.
8 - Dave Nalle
Got to agree on that, Matthew. A comment of the week isn't a bad idea, except for the wading through all those comments to find one if one doesn't just pop out.
Dave
9 - Temple Stark
Michael J - I keep on changng that, but it doesn't want to change. Weird. Let me try again.
10 - Temple Stark
Done MJW. It took. I think the site got rebuilt somewhere in the middle of when I posted this and tried to fix the link.
My use of tech language exhausted for the day, see youse later scouse. :-)
-temple
11 - Dennis Scanland
You've never heard of Boards of Canada? Where you been man?
12 - STM
"Nine tenths of education is encouragement." - Anatole France."
Excellent, and makes so much sense I suspect he wasn't really French.