Alright, we're going to try something new here...instead of Sunday Blogrolling, we're going to try Monday Morning Blogrolling...sorry, Sundays. You just weren't cutting it. Oh, and my apologies to our legion of readers (6 readers = legion, right?) for my doing the bare minimum of posting this week...uploading 60GB of music to iTunes/iPod is a very time- (and RAM-) intensive thing. Apparently my music nerddom trumps my blog nerddom. I'll shape up, I promise.
And how was everybody's weekend? For the first time in three weeks, mine didn't include a home football game. Mizzou was in Albuquerque this weekend (which, according to the announcers, is the Duke City...who knew?) and pulled out an ugly-but-closer-than-the-final-score-indicated 27-17 win over New Mexico. 3-0, baby.
On to the blogs! Who posted what this weekend?
Hey berlin niebuhr, you'll be happy to see that someone else gets it (Left Coaster).
Not to tread on berlin's hallowed Weather, Water, Energy turf here, but Attaturk links to an article that says we've got 10 years to fix our ways (but it was written by a NASA scientist who probably doesn't even believe in intelligent design...so, you know, he's probably full of it)...and in the meantime, Attaturk sums every thing up rather succinctly:
Continuing to leave the conservatives in power is not only dangerous because they will make you poorer, less insured, and lose an unnecessary war for you; they have the power to watch the planet destroy itself and deny it to the end.Upyernoz links to an uninentionally hilarious article from Forbes: in our effort to secure Iraq, we've now regressed to moats. But hey, moats were very successful at one point roughly, I dunno, a thousand years ago, and that's more than can be said about most of our tactics--most have never been successful at all!
Let the last conservative global warming denier lose their aqualung rights.
Billmon catches a new trial balloon floating out among the media.
Yes, the one we're not involved in (via Atrios). That's right...the one where we were actually hunting Al Qaeda members instead of recruiting them.
George Allen gets panned on TownHall (BooMan). Ouch.
Greenwald takes on Yoo so nobody else has to.
Hmm...apparently in neglecting my blog, I totally missed the latest Althouse-induced Our-lives-are-boring-and-unfulfilled-so-we're-going-to-make-up-something-to-be-outraged-about outrage in the righty blogosphere: having boobs. Apparently burkas are the only acceptable clothing to wear around a certain former president and "known groper." Honestly, some brain cells of mine rotted away just from my typing this paragraph, but others (Lefarkins) managed to post about it (Pandagon), so read their posts (TBogg) instead (Echidne). And if you REALLY want to kill some brain cells, Majikthise summarized nicely.
The Post-9/11 bounce lasts roughly 7.5 weeks shorter than they hoped it would (AMERICAblog).
Gadflyer looks into McCain's actual motivation for "taking a stand" on "terrorist rights". And then First Draft takes it a lot further. Needless to say, FDL's suspicious too.
Existentialist Cowboy imagines the tables turned on torture, while Debate Link links to some good torture blurbs. And Susie's right...it's very obvious what Dubya's motivation is...but nobody's calling him on it.
Here's the latest on Mexico's government (or lack thereof) from Mercury Rising.
Avedon links to a lovely Corrente Wire post regarding the DLC and, sniff sniff, the loss of their tax exempt status. Why do bad things always happen to good people? Heh.
"I'm a die-hard Republican, but I think we missed the boat with this one" (Alter Destiny). Nice.
"REMAIN CALM. ALL IS WELL" (Alicublog).
From the Fish In a Barrel category, Mannion drubs David Brooks (not that that's hard)...who apparently still believes Bush = Churchill...reality to the contrary notwithstanding...while Digby brilliantly drubs Fred Barnes. Speaking of drubbing the clueless, Wolcott (and those to which he links) plays with the establishment class like our outdoor cat plays with bunnies, while Interesting Times points out that, shock and dismay, Al From is a wanker and a hypocrite.
Amidst the legions of terrible ones and generic ones, it's good to point out the good political ads as well (Demosthenes).
Dana wants to make an example of H.P.
Finally, Missouri State University (it'll always be SW Missouri State to me, though) does something I agree with (Fired Up! Missouri)...and naturally, the governor disagrees with it. And speaking of Missouri, yes...there are still good Republicans out there (C&L). My standards are low, and I'm sure I could dig up a bunch of negativity on Danforth if I wanted to, but hey...he deserves kudos for this, at least.
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