I sure you saw the story over the weekend about the Colorado college teacher kicking the student because he was wearing a Republican shirt.

There seems to have been a lot of that sort of thing going around this election cycle. I want to collect all of these anecdotes and maybe do a little piece on Democratic hooliganism. But I need your help. If you can send me links to stories about this sort of Democratic bad behavior, I’d be grateful. You can leave them in the comments box, or email me at galleyslaves@gmail.com.

Thanks.

Both Kerry and Bush made (pre-taped) appearances on SportsCenter this morning. One of the questions they were asked was whether or not they’re worried about the migration of some sports onto cable or pay-per-view.

Bush said he believes in free markets and blah-blah-blah.

Kerry said that he believes there is a threshold where the biggest sporting events should always be available to all folks on broadcast. The two examples he used for big-time sporting events? The Super Bowl and . . . the World Cup.

Those aren’t my values!

Galley Friend M.L. sent along a link to this item from Andrew Sullivan, which was posted last Saturday:

“The unutterably cool Bob Mould has put together a live blogjam in DC tomorrow night. A bunch of us will be reading from our blogs live, followed by Bob’s now famous Blow-Off night. There’s me, Wonkette, Geekslut, Vividblurry, Dog Poet, and many more. It’s at DC9 at 1940 9th Street NW, starting at 7 pm. Come have fun. Meet sexy bloggers. Dance. Forget about this damn election for a couple hours. See you there.”

What to say? In the Blogger Bible’s Book of Genesis, it is written that the blogosphere arose in answer to the vanity, pomposity, and self-regard of old-media journalists. What do you think the blogosphere would say if Tom Friedman, Dana Milbank, and Adam Nagourney announced that they were getting together at the Kennedy Center and have a jam session, where they would read–live!–from their newspaper reports? (Followed by dancing and a chance to meet “sexy” reporters, of course.)

On Sullivan’s behalf, at least you can say that he’s an interesting and engaging writer. Still, one doesn’t need to hear him read “Begala Award Nominees” in person in order to grok the essence of his craft. But check out some of his fellow blogjammers. Take GeekSlut, for instance. Here’s a sample from GeekSlut’s last posting:

The need for seed. Once a natural part of queer culture has become a sleazy kink. We glorify it. We enjoy it. I guess its payback, you know. After spending years, our cocks wrapped in plastic marching to the “Safe Sex” rhythm. That didn’t work. It was doomed from the start. We’re human beings. Men. We’re not above nature, we ARE nature.

Seed is a gift, it’s love, it’s acceptance. Taking a man’s cum [in your ass, down your throat, rubbed into your skin – whatever], even if you don’t know his name, is closeness. It’s an act of love and trust. Even if yawl just met! Both the bottom and the top walk away smiling . . . and content. Now it’s a sleazy affair that boys get cracked out of their minds for. Like it’s an embarrassing nasty secret thing to want. This is so fucked.

The Old Media is dead! Long live the blogosphere!

There’s more, of course. There’s always more in blogland, because “more” is the internet’s central comparative advantage. Galley Friend M.C. sends along this link to blogger Matthew Yglesias.

You may recall Yglesias from the last time we visited him during the Republican national convention. Classy kid. And now he’s blogging about sitting in a Starbucks while German television cameras film him:

Okay, now we’re going and there’s demand for me to write something so here it is. “Something!” I assume Germans all understand about the evils of Bushism, so there’s no particular need to emphasize the point in this context. And then, you post the thing.

Boy, am I glad we have bloggers around to teach those old-fogey journalists a lesson.

Forget the election. Click here and play the internet’s best new game, “Walk the Drunk Home.”

Not to go out on a limb here, but I suspect Vic is going to be the office champ on this one.

“HRC is a bipartisan organization,” says the website of the Human Rights Campaign. Passing by this morning, I noticed their preemptive get-lost to Bush (“You’re Fired”) had been taken down.

Been reading the postmortem praise for John Peel, all of it well-deserved. Slate has a nice piece on this legend of British radio.

I first heard Peel around four in the morning. In the little Hell’s Kitchen apartment I rented with two friends during my first post-collegiate year. My roomate Sully and I stumbled out of Rudy’s, a stridently-divey dive known for its hot dogs and brooding patrons, and came home to play darts until our other roommate insisted we stop. At which point we retired to Sully’s room, where we stayed, sitting up, switching eventually to coffee, and savoring the last few hours of night listening to The Smiths or New Order.

Then we went to work. I to my job as a freelance editorial assistant working on K-2 readers for the textbook division of McGraw-Hill. He to some law firm downtown that specialized in tobacco litigation.

I used to wish that America had its own John Peel. I don’t anymore because I think we have one in Nic Harcourt on KCRW in Santa Monica. His recorded sessions of up-and-coming bands on the show Morning Becomes Eclectic have made me significantly less envious of British radio listeners, though I’d still love to hear some more Peel sessions.

The latest Washington Post tracking poll shows President Bush retaking the lead over Senator Kerry, 49 percent to 48 percent. Of course the headline on CNN/Netscape News reads: “Bush Lead Crumbles; Race Tied.”

They just can’t wait to get him out of there. But if Bush does, in fact, win, which of the following headlines would we most likely see?

Kerry Still President To Most Americans

Low Voter Turnout Leads To Reelection

Voter Fraud Casts Doubt on Bush “Win”

Gerard Baker makes what might be the best case for Bush: He has the right enemies.

Very true. The converse is also true: The best reason not to vote for Kerry is the people who are championing him.