If you are one of the small fraction of voters, who themselves represent a small fraction of eligible Americans, who vote tomorrow, here are some things to think about while you’re touching screens or punching chads:
How did all these things get on the ballot?  Do the candidates and issues on the ballot even represent you, [...]

How about this? Matt Burden, the Blackfive of the outstanding weblog of the same name, is running for the Illinois State Legislature.
What else do I need to say? If you don’t like how things are, do something about the things you don’t like. In the example of Burden, you could serve your country in the [...]

The reason that conservatively minded people are losing the war of ideas in the United States is because they are not loud enough. They content themselves by claiming their morality, productivity, and work ethic say enough, meanwhile newspapers, magazines, the radio, television, and the internet are overrun with the never-ending barrage of the message of [...]

His may be an extreme example, but if you are looking for what “doing something” looks like, look no further than Michael Yon. I regularly pray that I will grow to be even half the man he has already proven himself to be. We would all to well to strive to these kinds of heights.
DLH

Worldview Item of the Day
Tonight, Friday 15 May, is the latest installment of the biannual Urban Nights, an event designed to showcase downtown Dayton’s culture, music, and food. The event boasts 106 venues (.pdf), live music, live theater performances, and dozens of art galleries. It also runs along with the FilmDayton festival at the Neon [...]