• Medical ethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan.

• Government Fannie Mae worked great, private Fannie Mae was a disaster...let's go back to nationalized Fannie Mae.
• Have the banksters bought the White House? First the communists were coming to get us, then the Muslims were coming to get us…now they own us!
• Given how the Supreme Court has turned our government over to corporations, should progressives join the far-right militia movement in pushing back against any sort of government intrusion into our lives?

• Dangerous Power, Gabriel & Dresden.
• Say Hello, Deep Dish. (video)
• Ghost Chickens in the Sky, Sean Morey.
• Toxic Toys, Air Farce Live (video).
• Who Knew, Pink.
• Which Way You're Going, Robbie Rivera.
• Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
• Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, Seamus Haji.
• Wild Wild West, The Escape Club.
• You can leave your hat on, Randy Newman.
• Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob Patterson).
• Democracy, Leonard Cohen.

The media consortium included The Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Tribune Company, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The St. Petersburg Times, The Palm Beach Post and CNN.

If all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards, and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes, Mr. Gore would have won, by a very narrow margin. For example, using the most permissive "dimpled chad" standard, nearly 25,000 additional votes would have been reaped, yielding 644 net new votes for Mr. Gore and giving him a 107-vote victory margin...

Using the most restrictive standard — the fully punched ballot card — 5,252 new votes would have been added to the Florida total, producing a net gain of 652 votes for Mr. Gore, and a 115-vote victory margin.

All the other combinations likewise produced additional votes for Mr. Gore, giving him a slight margin over Mr. Bush, when at least two of the three coders agreed.

In a finding rich with irony, the results show that even if Mr. Gore had succeeded in his effort to force recounts of undervotes in the four Democratic counties, Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia, he still would have lost, although by 225 votes rather than 537. An approach Mr. Gore and his lawyers rejected as impractical — a statewide recount — could have produced enough votes to tilt the election his way, no matter what standard was chosen to judge voter intent.