Political Wire: Legislator Claims He Was Scared Into Offering Sex – your modern republican party SpaceRef: NASA JSC Solicitation: Digital Cameras – NASA shoots Nikon The Big Picture: Giuliani’s Daughter for Obama . . . – campaigns have sunk for much less than this Esquire: The Beauty Contest – Charles Pierce on John Edwards. ’nuff [...]

Altercation: Slacker Friday – Charles Pierce: “Is it possible that the hyperbolic coverage of every tiny twist and every miniscule turn among the various Democratic presidential candidates, even though the Republican field is equally vast, equally sprawling, and far more entertaining is a tacit acknowledgement by our brethren that the GOP cause is pretty well [...]

William Arkin: Clinton 1, Obama 0 – all the serious people think hillary was right. sarabeth is clearly more serious than matt is. Golden Fiddle: Letter To Cash Warren – jessica alba is now single. cash is going to have to kill himself. WaPo: War Crimes and the White House – Gen. P.X. Kelley (ex-commandant [...]

SF Chron: Daly and Dufty nearly come to blows / Supes argue heatedly at marathon meeting – sf politricks is out of hand Washington Times: Webb lauds freshman power – strong words from your next vice president MyDD: Democrat, Democratic, Progressive – Guess whose emails don’t mention these fairly important words? NYT: Records Show Ex-Senator’s [...]

IHT: Learning to like like – i refuse to speak to people who talk like this SF Chronicle: Digital Images Dominate – But With a Downside – or more than one Bill Arkin: Ready for Surge II? – try to imagine this not happening NY Daily News: G.I. in shoot scam: better shot in Bronx [...]

The Guardian: Panel Demands Records on Tillman’s Death – WH invokes “executive confidentiality”, whatever the bleep that means. Doesn’t this pretty much confirm that the WH was told the truth about Tillman’s death, and kept a studied silence while the U.S. military continued to put out lies for propaganda purposes? The Reality-Based Community: “Believe this, [...]

The Washington Times: Bush jokes. Crowd laughs. Girl cries. – Now he’s making little girls cry. For a cheap laugh. The Big Picture: The Accelerating BLS Birth/Death Adjustment – what to say the next time someone says “but unemployment is so low!” John Koppel in the Denver Post: Bush justice is a national disgrace – [...]

Jamison Foser: Why pay the bigot when you can get the bile for free? – while the mallrats version of this quote is funnier, the column is dead on The Examiner (Louisville, KY): U.S. eager and it shows in Iraq – The TWAT version of “Love Me Two Times Girl”. WaPo: Construction Woes Add to [...]

Reuters: Brown orders doctors probe after British bomb plot – Brown is probing brown doctors; will Bush hold back? UPI: FOIA Backlog is Decades Old – depends on the definition of freedom? CBS: Is McCain Down And Out? – never was a fate so well deserved. Gen Batiste: U.S. Not Serious About War on Terror [...]

Media Matters: Will WaPo reconsider its Supreme Court endorsement criteria? – no, but they should. this court is a disgrace. ABC News: White House ‘Duplicity’ Over Pork Spending Draws GOP Ire – With a straight face, the White House defends more than $1 billion in earmarks by saying: “Our earmarks are better than their earmarks.” [...]