Balloon Juice: We're movin' on up! To that deluxe...

Consortiumblog: Neocons, Likud conquer D.C. again

Gizmodo: BP foresaw its doom in a 1970s "Offshore Oil Strike" board game

FishbowlLA: The curious case of Carly Fiorina's protesters (h/t Tina Dupuy)

IntoxiNation: More from the party of 'Family Values'

Many thanks to Blue Gal and Batocchio for filling in so ably for the past couple weeks.

Mike's Blog Round Up

blogenlust: The administration’s rhetoric on Iran is incredibily similar to their rhetoric on Iraq during the fall of 2002 and the winter of 2003.

After Downing Street: Democrats.com offers $1,000 reward to any reporter who will ask a follow-up question to Bush.

Of Cabbages and Kings: Hybrid car technology was developed by an inventor named Victor Wouk in the 1970s and a bureaucrat with the Environmental Protection Agency killed it.

Ward Sutton's cartoon pretty much sums up the feelings of many of us...

David E’s Fablog: How can one “glorify Naziism”and yet “never express any specific prejudice towards gays”? In a culture that prizes homophobia that’s how.

Iraq: The Musical !

cartoon pretty much sums up the feelings of many of us...

David E’s Fablog: How can one “glorify Naziism”and yet “never express any specific prejudice towards gays”? In a culture that prizes homophobia that’s how.

Iraq: The Musical !

Cole points us to the latest on the ID debate and also links to Panda’s Thumb review of the Mega-Expo. I like this part in the article: Intelligent design emerged in the late 1970s and suggests there are certain aspects of the universe and nature that are best explained by an intelligent designer. But it avoids discussion of the designer, instead focusing on the complexity of life and the universe...."

The theory is based on an intelligent designer, a designer that they refuse to talk about. Why is that I wonder? I was going to write all these designer clothes jokes but...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A business school professor who taught George W. Bush at Harvard University in the early 1970s says the future president told him that family friends had pulled strings to get him into the Texas Air National Guard.

Yoshi Tsurumi, in his first on-camera interview on the subject, told CNN that Bush confided in him during an after-class hallway conversation during the 1973-74 school year.

"He admitted to me that to avoid the Vietnam draft, he had his dad -- he said 'Dad's friends' -- skip him through the long waiting list to get him into the Texas National Guard," Tsurumi said. "He thought that was a smart thing to do."