The Existentialist Cowboy: Six years on, amid a failed invasion and war, only 3 percent of Americans believe the US will bring democracy to the Middle East.

Vagabond Scholar: Right-wing cartoon watch

GOOD 006:  Speaking of cartoons, this is an awesome strip

Simply Left Behind: Bad Air Day

HOLY CRAP: Punditosis often enables Holy Crap...Crackpot Creationists are taking their war on evolution to Turkey...More "Christian Nation" nonsense...Know thine enemy--The Libertarian Theocrats:...How Neoconservatives and the Religious Right have joined forces to fight stem cell research...We linked this story last week, but it deserves more attention...Taxpayer dollars used to promote Kentucky's Creation Museum... Presidential religiosity, race, and gender...

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Papamoka Straight Talk, Last Left Turn Before Hooterville, the field negro, earthfamilyalpha