PITCH: Transforming Columbus Day

Qwerty's Qoncepts: Bush isn't dumb enough, for once.

Shakespeare's Sister : Reality Check

David Stephenson: The Mean Magic Mexico Wall is a Myth.

Beggars Can Be Choosers: Who Will Direct November Election: Frank Capra or David Lynch?

Weazl's Revenge: photos from The World Can't Wait protests

Off the beaten path, colors of the rainbow edition: Red State Diaries , Orange Tangerine, Yellow Doggerel Democrat, Green LA Girl, The Blue State, Indigo Girls, Violet's Blog.

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Blue Gal

It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Memo to pink ribbon profiteers: some bloggers are very aware of breast cancer, thank you very much.

First Freedom First: Tyranny of the Majority. Also, the arrogance of the majority, as well as that tyranny thing again.

Ice Station Tango: One Congressman refuses to be a traitor.

The Fifth Estate: The tortured logic of the American Inquisition

Pensito Review: Katherine Harris also looks to pin blame for Foleygate on the Democrats, "because our children are at stake." Yeah.

Conservatives for American Values (satire): Rick Santorum wins his own push poll. And speaking of Santorum, all that money he spent to get the Green Party candidate on the ballot was for naught.

Off the Beaten Path, fun with numbers edition: Room Eight, Nine Pearls, Tengrain, One Thousand Reasons.

Guest round-up by Blue Gal

d r i f t g l a s s: 9/11/06...the time for easy cliches and cheap platitudes is over. Has our aim been true?

The Heretik: OCD...Obsessive Caliphate Disorder

Confined Space: Scoundrel Time: Whitman, Giuliani, and the victims of Ground Zero.

Mccs1977: When it comes to setting guidelines for military tribunals, who you gonna trust? G-Dub, or the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines?

No Capital: Green energy saves lives. Just ask the soldiers who are fighting to keep the oil flowing.

The Revealer: How come we didn't hear about this foiled terrorist plot?

David Sirota: The media elite finally admit the truth about themselves....but some news orgs and voters are wising up to Bush and Cheney's reign of error. This is gonna be the Republican campaign strategy: "a vote against us is a vote for Osama!"

Pharyngula: Put the blame where it belongs--God and the Republican Party.

Suburban Guerrilla: Lou Dobbs looks at the lies of the 9/11 report. The BushCo. answer? Another round of air security hysteria...but nothing for new homeland explosives dectection tecnology.

The Horse's Mouth: Connecticut Wrap-up

Talk To Action: Evidence that the war of attrition and division against mainline Protestant churches has been orchestrated by some of the leading neo-conservative Catholic intellectuals in the United States.

The Green Knight: Things I've learned on the Internet(s)

Well, well, well--who would have ever thought this could happen.

Greg:

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights organization often vilified on Johnson's blog, calls Little Green Footballs "a vicious, anti-Muslim hate site . . . that has unfortunately become popular." The irony, Hooper says, is that if the same kind of "hatred" that appears on LGF appeared on Muslim sites, it soon would be used by LGF's fans to justify their worldview...

The FBI, according to Hooper, recently investigated several threats of physical harm against Muslims posted by Little Green Footballs readers. Johnson acknowledges the investigation but says Hooper's organization initiated the complaints to try to stifle free speech on his blog...read on

MSNBC presented me with a panel discussion on moral values the other night that was moderated by Mike Barnicle, the famous literary grave-robber, that also featured Lawrence Kudlow, the famous cocaine-guzzling financier, and Joe Scarborough, the famous wife-dumping ex-congressperson. (Carl Bernstein was also there, running with a worse crowd than he ever did when he was hanging with Don Segretti.)

Anyway, this brood of B-list vipers blathered on from Hell until breakfast, driving me to one of the Internets on which I discovered this and then, this.

Consider: a plagiarist moderates a discussion on "values" with one guy who chucked the frau overboard the first chance he had, and a stock-market pimp who once put half of Medellin up his nose. The discussion is carried on further by a degenerate gambler writing on behalf of an institution that is giving its "Leadership Award" to a pill-popping creature of the strip-mall night who's currently working on Wife No. 4. Welcome to the mystical body of suckers, y'all.

As with most things, The Founder had a good eye for the likes of Bill (Sportin' Life) Bennett and the rest of the Green Room Sanhedrin: "Alas for you...you hypocrites! You who are like whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of corruption." (Matthew 23: 27-28).

City of Chicago uses Ebay!

Chicago to auction Windy City 'experiences'

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- City officials hope there are people willing to pay plenty of money to own a vintage Playboy Bunny costume, toss green dye into the Chicago River or throw a dinner party prepared by Oprah Winfrey's chef.

The Chicago-related items and experiences -- Playboy Enterprises and Winfrey's show are both based in the city, and turning the Chicago River green for St. Patrick's Day is a hallowed city tradition -- will be up for sale December 2-16 on eBay.

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, which is sponsoring the auction, has seen its budget from federal, state and city sources decline from $11.8 million in 2002 to a projected $8.8 million next year, said department spokeswoman Anne Dattulo.

Hmmm...I guess Dick Cheney was right!

JC: "Dan Bartlett and Tony Snow of the Ministry of Truth bravely get a first hand look at the daily lives of our soldiers stationed in Baghdad's Green Zone."

(h/t Roxanne too)

More on Net Neutrality

Adam Green weighs in.

Mike's Blog Round Up

A Liberal Dose: GOP prison watch...

The Green Knight: In the June issue of Harper's, Kevin Baker has a major article about the history of a peculiar right-wing myth

Yep, another Goddamned blog: Why should anyone in their seventies have to scratch for another $125 a week just to stay off the streets?

Talk To Action: Oklahoma's monument to American theocracy

FBIHOP: Playing politics with our troops?

Blue Gal: Lookin' for some R-E-S-P-E-C-T