And how was everybody's Saturday? It finally rained hard in Missouri Friday night, but that didn't stop us from working outside on the new retaining wall.
Really, though, we only worked outside for a couple of hours...leaving plenty of time for all the other important Saturday agenda items: going to Barnes & Noble, reading the new Rolling Stone and Wired cover to cover, preparing for my Monday night Fantasy Football draft, watching Memoirs of a Geisha (not my choice, but it really wasn't too bad...one important question: why in the world was that movie in English? It was like a Japanese movie being filmed in Chicago...only with every American in the movie speaking Japanese...was just weird.), and finding and watching most of Fahrenheit 9/11 on one of the Showtimes (The Butterfly hadn't seen it). Good times. Anyway...on to the Blogroll...
De-coding Neocon proposals in one easy step (Debate Link). It makes total sense! Brilliant!
Live blogging from the NOLA Rising Tide Conference (First Draft...who actually has a series of strong Katrina posts...read them all). Meanwhile, Susie asks, shall we say, a pretty straight-forward question.
Atrios links to WaPo, and normally I'd be apologizing for doing the same, but this is a pretty decent write-up. Lots of people (my wife, for one) have been talking about debt and the over-extension of a normal family's income for quite a while, and it seems the first wave of consequences is hitting the shore.
I still haven't gotten around to writing another Fraud in the Land of Telenovelas post, but thanks to Mercury Rising, and the fact that Charles does a better job of summarizing it than I do anyway, I haven't been in much of a hurry.
Two great (and unrelated...mostly) links from this Avedon post: 1) I'm curious how much play this will get nationwide. An army lieutenant refuses to go to war because "A soldier has an obligation to disobey illegal orders." There's already been a Time article, which is always a good start. 2) Bush says "I'm responsible for the federal government," and Corrente Wire says "No, you're not."
Seriously, how inept are Joementum and his advisors...they've actually managed to alienate themselves from Hilary's people (FDL). Is she a crazed, angry liberal too now? Yes, but don't you forget--Joe is a tried and true Democrat (AMERICAblog), no matter what those crazy blogofascists might say...and no matter what his own actions may suggest.
The Boston Globe takes on evil incarnate (Gadflyer).
Dear Leader is just trying to protect us, so these two Americans must have done something wrong (Greenwald)."
"No no no, it's okay when we do it (Billmon)."
"I'm nothing like those crazed liberal blogofascists...they're so...so...angry (Digby)."
Going to great lengths to win hearts and minds...of our own troops (Booman).Fear and tax cuts...for the good of the country (Existentialist Cowboy)!
Real Time is one of two reasons why I miss HBO (the other, of course, is Entourage), but thanks to C&L, I don't have to miss it quite as much. And speaking of C&L (and YouTube), Dana B. looks at the "Year of the Clip."
Here's the latest in Echidne's lovely Cootie Awards series.
I'll just take this time to say that my morbid curiosity meter is going off the charts for the '08 Republican Primaries, and I'm really not sure why. From TBogg.
Alter Destiny makes its debut appearance on the blogroll by mentioning something interesting--why in the hell isn't the "Wake Up Wal-Mart Tour" focusing mostly on the Midwest. I live in a mid-Missouri town (Columbia) run mostly by Wal-Mart money...91,000 people here, and one Supercenter is not enough...so they're building THREE more. They'll have covered all four corners, and it's disgusting.
Republicans feasting on each other in my home state (Fired Up! Missouri). Good times.
Wolcott takes on one of his favorite targets. Making fun of PM is like shooting dead fish in a barrel, but this post is worth it for the title alone.
Rosie Ruiz runs for office (Rising Hegemon).
Upyernoz is back from vacation! And he gets all scientific and stuff!
Mannion writes about Orson Welles.
If sarcasm is for losers, then the GN blogroll is screwed (Pandagon).
And finally, the Far in Lefarkins links to the most important issue of the week. I vote for That's Not Sangria!
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