A round of links for everyone:

• Joe at the Evangelical Outpost has a must read pro-choice conversation overheard at a shopping mall.

• The voting for Wizbang's 2004 Weblog Awards is underway so go and cast your vote in a number of different categories. I'm a little disappointed with the offerings. I don't think all the nominees highlight the best of what the blogosphere has to offer. And no, no, I'm not saying that because I wasn't nominated. Well actually, I think I was, but I don't think I kiss enough butts to make it to the final cut.

• La Shawn Barber (behind whose back, I refer to affectionately as "L-Breezy") covers Ann Coulter's latest column on Condoleezza Rice's supposed lack of qualifications. Hmph. L-Breezy's also got a good one up on "Customs, Traditions, and Moral Values."

• Duane at the Black Informant writes quite poignantly from personal experience on the question of Can a Black Man be Abstinent?". Contrary to the portrayal of black men in media, the answer is yes. Love it, love it, love it.

• My favorite Liberal blogger Oliver Willis (who just admitted his real first name is Lloyd *snicker snicker*) has a new online radio show or excuse me, I believe the geek term is "Pod-Cast" (as in iPod) called "The Willis Effect". Can't say it's not an ingenious idea. Can't say I wouldn't bite it either (vernacular translation of "bite": to copy). I thought about doing audioblogger like 6 months ago but passed on the idea because you have to do it via the phone. Willis has tapped into something I dig big-time. Ambra radio? There could be danger.

• Fellow Seattlelite Timothy Goddard did some research and found that in the Blue State of Washington, Bush's biggest percentage of support came from none other than non-white men. Go figure.

• One of the smartest people I've come across in the blogosphere is founder of the Conservative Brotherhood, Michael Cobb Bowen. He and I don't agree on everything politically, but the dude's wicked smart (and obscurely so) and I dig that about him. He and his wife (just celebrated 10 years) have also done fairly well on the reproductive side of things. Okay, enough gushing. He's got some good photos up lately, but one in particular struck me because I realized how well-dressed everyone used to be back in the day. What happened? Now everyone walks around looking like slobs. At least it's good Fashion Faux-Pas fodder.

Mkay, that's all for now. I'd link more stuff, but oddly enough I have this nagging need to give commentary on all my links so it gets long. If anyone has any leads on the UN oil-for-food brooha, send 'em my way.