While looking through my hotlist I came across the following table from Winger's April diary.  I orignially posted to an open thread but its been suggested that this needs more attention.

We can do a lot more with it.  If someone with HTML experience can add the additions to the table and turn into into an image file it would be perfect to spread around and post to non-partisan discussion boards.  Others please help check for accuracy and thoroughness.

the image is below

Having just visited Riverbend's Baghdad Burning (Iraq) and Al Giordano's Big Left Outside (somewhere in Latin America), I got to thinking about the way that the internet is further breaking down the barriers to international communication.  Yet I also realized that the substantial majority of blogs that I end up linking through are based in and focused on the U.S.  I wonder whether it's because they are provincial to me or if instead the blog arena is more developed here.  

Is there, say, a European blogging community?  A Japanese one?  I can imagine visiting French blogs for reaction to a Bush move vis-a-vis France.  Picture a blogroll that is subcategorized into different countries.  Language variations could be an obstacle, but I could foresee multi-lingual blog technology that would at least allow you to get those wacky translations.

So share what you know and what you've seen.  I'll use the new edit feature to make a list attached to this diary.

I came home real late last night and caught Bill Maher on Hardball around 5 in the morning.  It was the best segment I've ever seen on that show.  Maher basically came on and just said "Cut the shit Chris. You and the rest of the media"  It was utterly refreshing. I've posted the transcript of that segment below...  

Apologies if this has been shared already as I was away this weekend.  

I recieved the following through e-mail about a Kerry fundraiser last week in San Francisco.  It's a little treasure of a story for those of you with a love of the Grateful Dead.  For the rest it's an interesting glimpse inside $1,000 a head fundraiser, as well as a piece of Kerry's personality.  

Ok, we're not getting the ad on the SuperBowl.  But how many showings will that $1.7 million get us at the normal exorbitant ad rate?

Little did I imagine that mere days after posting a diary bemoaning the decline of the discourse and community of Blog for America I would writing the same about Daily Kos

I got an e-mail requesting I post this as a diary here so...

First of all, that was such an amazing thread yesterday about the weak dollar that I saved it for future reference.  Thank you all for the wealth of information that you share.

I'm a college student studying sociology and politics, but I am doing my own research and study of economics on the side as I angle towards graduate school.  Although my question is short I'm sure the answer is not.  The supply side model of economics seems reasonable on its face - if you free up money for corporations and the wealthy they will use it for investment and jobs will trickle down.  

But doesn't that all change in this age of globalization?  Given the multinational reach of global corporations, are we not in effect subsidizing their investment in the developing markets with the upper class tax cuts?

I have the most recent speech by Dean in Iowa on C-SPAN in the backround, and true to form he just said exactly what I'm thinking.  Why would these corporations invest in a country with low interest rates, a huge deficit, and a weakening currency?  It seems to me that the supply side model may have worked in the national interest during the post WWII economy, but is a seriously flawed approach for the problems we face today.