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As long as my notebook continues to hold up, I’m planning to liveblog the presidential debate starting in about an hour (9PM EST). Check back here for live updates. [Ht. to Matt Scott for the cool Cover it Live platform]

Last Sunday John McCain emphatically denied that his campaign manager had anything to do with Freddie Mac, one of the latest companies to receive corporate welfare. Looks like he lied.  The truth is the mortgage giant paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last month — roughly $500,000 in all — to a firm owned by McCain’s campaign manager.  How the hell do you explain that John? Kinda makes all the anti-special interests and ‘no more Washington business as usual’ talk ring a little hollow.

To be fair, Barack Obama is not immune either.  He has ties to the loan sharks as well.  In fact, he ranks second among members of Congress in donations from the firms’ employees and political action committees.  Both candidates have corporate connections that should be deeply disturbing to anyone who has been paying any attention to the economy as of late.

So — don’t believe everything they tell you.  Follow the money trail.  Turn off the news and read.  Be informed. This is as good a place as any to get started.

I really wish I had more time to do substantive blogging these days (like finishing my thoughts on The New Conspirators!), but I’m swamped on the home front with reading and writing for school. Hopefully I’ll have more to offer soon. In the meantime, I’ve been watching stuff like this: a talk given earlier this month by Slavoj Žižek on ideology, power and civility. Watch it if you have the time — it will blow your mind…or something.