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  • The permanent campaign

    Today, the permanent campaign already dominates the lives of members. Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post got his hands on a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee PowerPoint presentation recommending that vulnerable incumbents allot four hours per day on the phone asking people for money — or roughly the same amount of time allotted for hearings, votes and meeting with constituents, combined. And that schedule didn’t include raising money at events. Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) estimated that […]

  • The Dish and the discussion

    After several days, it is still my considered opinion that with this post, The Dish became the most important media outlet in America, at least for those of us who value serious discussion of current issues. A reader shares a harrowing series of stories and insights on corporal punishment, which at times borders on torture: via “Psychological Suspense That No Child Is Equipped To Manage” « The Dish. The anonymity of the post, however, raises an important […]

  • We Want Privacy, but Can’t Stop Sharing – NYTimes.com

    The problem is that if you reveal everything about yourself or it’s discoverable with a Google search, you may be diminished in your capacity for intimacy. This goes back to social penetration theory, one of the most cited and experimentally validated explanations of human connection. Developed by Irwin Altman and Dalmas A. Taylor in the 1970s, the theory holds that relationships develop through gradual and mutual self-disclosure of increasingly private and sensitive personal information. “Building and maintaining […]

David Brendan O'Meara on substack

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