European Parliamentary Elections: A Kossack primer

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Sunday June 07, 2009 · 8:51 PM PDT

2009/06/07 · 20:51

So, you've just sat down at your computer with that Sunday evening cup of tea/Monday morning cup of coffee, and pulled up one of your favorite blogs or internationally-focused news sites, when you glimpsed a story about this past weekend's European Parliament elections. And, if you're like most Americans, you probably scrolled past it in deference to gawking at cute pictures of lolcats. Fair enough; I only paid attention because I wrote a thesis on British involvement in the EU myself.

However, there were some results and issues that I think would be useful to be apprised of, especially in Britain. After the jump, I'll try to go over what exactly happened, and some trends we as liberal Americans might want to keep in the back of our minds.

KyleLI

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Wednesday January 28, 2009 · 1:30 PM PST

2009/01/28 · 13:30

I started out writing this as a comment in Deoliver47's diary from this morning, and ended up realizing that it's entirely too long and contains too many discrete and substantive thoughts to really effectively put into a comment addressing his diary. So I'm writing my own diary, and I think it's my first, even though the random thoughts are haphazard and disorganized in the vein of one of my pieces of light criticism. But then again the point of Deoliver47's diary was to get people to de-lurk, which I'm effectively doing by participating in this improvised soapbox about de-lurking, so... meh.

Anyway, it's some very light criticism of the site's display structure and participation formats that I hope someone might read and perhaps keep in mind when doing the next redesign. Let's get meta!

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