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[H/t Heather]

Just as Nicole pointed out, it's a GOP-heavy lineup for the Sunday talk shows today. Quelle surprise! Of course, that's who they'll have on after the Democratic Convention. Just like all those Republicans who were on after the Republican Convention. See how that works?

We can hardly wait for the softballs that are likely to be lobbed Paul Ryan's way on ABC -- though of course they'll have to bring up his multiple falsehoods at the GOP confab. Just expect (a) Ryan to prevaricate and deny or play the false-equivalency card (Clinton did it too!) or better yet both, and (b) the panel questioning him to go, 'Um, OK.'

Anyway, here's the lineup:

ABC’s “This Week” — Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Panel: Newark Mayor Cory Booker, co-chair of the Democratic platform committee; Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., author of the new book "Government Bullies"; ABC News' George Will; ABC News' Cokie Roberts; and Nobel Prize-winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and wife, Ann. Panel: San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro; the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan; the Washington Post’s EJ Dionne; Fmr. Secretary of Education Bill Bennett; and NBC’s Political Director and Chief White House Correspondent, Chuck Todd.

NBC’s “The Chris Matthews Show” – Panel: Michael Duffy, TIME Magazine; Trish Regan, Bloomberg News; Kasie Hunt, Associated Press, John Harris, Politico

CBS’ ”Face the Nation” — Ryan; President Barack Obama; White House adviser David Plouffe. "No Easy Day" author, former Navy SEAL "Mark Owen”. Panel: New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger, CBS News Political Director John Dickerson, Washington Post Columnist Michael Gerson and Vanity Fair Contributing Editor Dee Dee Myers

MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes” -- Sasha Issenberg, Author of “The Victory Lab: The Secret Sceince of Winning Campaigns”, slate.com columnist and Washington correspondent for Monocle. Jacob Hacker, Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University. Chris Hughes, Chief Digital Organizer for the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign, Co-founder of Facebook and Founder of Jumo.com, Michelle Goldberg, Senior Contributing Writer for Newsweek, Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. House candidate (D-Hawaii), Bob Shrum, Walter Shapiro, Peter Beinart, Senior Writer for Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” -- former Congressman Mickey Edwards, author of The Parties Versus The People, How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans, Dorian Warren, Assistant professor of political science and international public affairs, SIPA, Columbia university, Valarie Kaur, Sikh American Filmmaker Director, Groundswell, Judith Browne Dianis, Co-Director, Advancement Project, Eboo Patel, Author, "Sacred Ground,” Amaney Jamal, Politics Professor, Princeton University, Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Consitutional Law, NYU School of Law

CNN’s “State of the Union” — Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Co-founder of CarMax, Austin Ligon, and former Bush Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. Panel: Peter Baker, The New York Times and A.B Stoddard, “The Hill”.

CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” – Anne-Marie Slaughter, Richard Haass, and Martin Indyk; investor Roger Altman and historian Niall Ferguson, statistician Nate Silver.

CNN’s “Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz” -- Jackie Kucinich, USA Today; Jane Hall, American University; Bob Cusack, The Hill; Michelle Cottle, Newsweek/The Daily Beast; Matt Lewis, The Daily Caller; Erik Wemple, Washington Post; Lois Romano, Politico

“Fox News Sunday” — Glenn Hubbard, economic adviser to the Romney campaign; Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; Mayor Mia Love of Saratoga Springs, Utah. Panel: Brit Hume, Fox News Senior Political Analyst, Mara Liasson, National Public Radio / Fox News Contributor, Kimberley Strassel, The Wall Street Journal, Juan Williams, Fox News Political Analyst.

Paul Simon - The Boy in the Bubble

Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby
These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry

The Chinese proverb/curse "May you live in interesting times" keeps knocking about in my brain this week. We certainly are living in interesting times. Whether it proves to be a blessing or a curse is yet to be seen. But it is amazing to me to think that just 50 years ago, my parents marched for the rights of African Americans to overcome Jim Crow in the South and now we have a black man in the Oval Office. That in my pocket right now is a device with more computing power than the room-sized server that I learned to program Fortran on 25 years ago in college. That after 10 long, frustrating years, we can finally say that we will have no military in Iraq this Christmas (although we'll still have defense contractors there at inflated rates for the foreseeable future, don't get me wrong). And after two years of constant talk about addressing the deficit by taking away every single social safety net, our Republican politicians have abandoned deficit-speak for job-speak (oddly, their solution appears to be the same for both problems). These really *are* the days of miracle and wonder.

ABC's "This Week" - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

NBC's "Meet the Press" - Clinton; 2012 GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul; White House adviser David Plouffe.

NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show" - Gloria Borger, Michael Duffy, David Ignatius, Kelly O'Donnell. Topics: Would Mitt Romney Be the Most Unlikeable Presidential Nominee Since Richard Nixon? Would the Obama Campaign Use Romney's Mormon Religion Against Him?

CBS' "Face the Nation" - 2012 GOP presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum.

CNN's "State of the Union" - Vice President Joe Biden; Clinton; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"Fox News Sunday" - Clinton; Bachmann; Sen. Lindsey Graham R-S.C.

So, what's catching your eye this morning?

Scarabus: Republican Secrets Revealed!

Dissident Voice: Johnny Got His Pills (and so do we)

Corrente: I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free

They gave us a republic: Nightowl Newswrap

Angry Bear: Why aren't the 'law and order' types excited

Reverend Manny and the Twilight Empire: Secular Sunday Sermon: Evolutionary Peacefare. or a New Populist Progressive Agenda

cleek: They're just better than you...

skippy the bush kangaroo: Lonesome Rhodes Beck

Southern Beale: It's Republican Rules

Dependable Renegade: An eloquent rebuttal

yikes: Sunday Funnies

HOLY CRAP: A bit late...Coincidence...Christian drill...C Street on 'Fresh Air'...He wasn't just a Christian...Jew on Jew violence...Freethought of the Day...Washington’s Letter...To Hell with reading...Identifying ignorance...Christian Side Hug...Dangerous book...Dangerous Religion