Just in time for the election, a collection of links which have been collecting dust on my hard drive….

Bill Maher video: New Rule: America must stop bragging it’s the greatest country on the earth and start acting like it. “I know this is uncomfortable for the faith-over-facts crowd, but the greatness of a country can, to a large degree, be measured.”

A conservative blogger wakes up and turns against his compatriots:

…it really sucks looking around at the wreckage that is my party and realizing that the only decent thing to do is to pull the plug on them (or help). I am not really having any fun attacking my old friends- but I don’t know how else to respond when people call decent men like Jim Webb a pervert for no other reason than to win an election. I don’t know how to deal with people who think savaging a man with Parkinson’s for electoral gain is appropriate election-year discourse. I don’t know how to react to people who think that calling anyone who disagrees with them on Iraq a “terrorist-enabler” than to swing back. I don’t know how to react to people who think that media reports of party hacks in the administration overruling scientists on issues like global warming, endangered species, intelligent design, prescription drugs, etc., are signs of… liberal media bias.

I laughed so hard I thought I was going to be sick: Cry, The Beloved Stupid Country. As the Paul Schaeffer character in This Is Spinal Tap said, “Timing, timing, I got no timing.”

Whether you agree with these articles or not, be sure and do one thing for me: on Tuesday, get out and vote.