For those that visit that have your own blogs:
When was the last time you added a blog to your blogroll?
Just more of my curiousity as to how static these things become.

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I know I haven’t signed up for news from Hillary Clinton or Bill Richardson. And yet I’m getting email from their campaigns. Can’t all campaigns respect the opt-in right of those of us that use the Internet, and require that we opt-in for your news lists by intention?
Okay, I know they [...]

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Wow.
In the most widespread survey of mercury in the nation’s streams, four Corvallis researchers with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Oregon State University sampled more than 2,700 fish in Oregon, Washington and 10 other Western states. They found detectable — and in some cases, high — amounts of mercury in every fish sampled from [...]

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Oh this looks like fun. I’ll be sure to wear mylar underwear to any protests I attend after 2010.
The US military has given the first public display of what it says is a revolutionary heat-ray weapon to repel enemies or disperse hostile crowds.
Called the Active Denial System, it projects an invisible high energy beam [...]

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What a surprise.
Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review in Ohio’s most populous county.
Jacqueline Maiden, elections coordinator of the Cuyahoga County Elections Board, and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer each were convicted of a felony count of negligent misconduct of an elections [...]

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The Republican Presidential Primary… Isn’t it an annointment and not a duly considered choice? Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush, Reagan, Reagan, Ford… when was the last time there was really a surprise winner of the Republican primary process? For Democrats, it can be argued that Clinton and Carter were both surprises. Perhaps Dukakis as well. [...]

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I meant to point this out yesterday, but I confused myself for a communist bear and lost track of time. These things happen. Anyway, as if on cue, just yesterday, and despite all of his sweet, sweet anti-war bluster, Hagel did exactly what he always does which is the wrong thing. After all of his [...]

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Their tribute to Laura Nyro:

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Hello, I’m an angry panda. I’m going to be updating the back end of this website over the next hour or so. I expect that everything will go wrong and that nothing, but nothing, will work afterwards. I’m a little touched like that. Since everything will probably be broken, I don’t expect that you’ll [...]

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Cheney’s a loser. Why are Americans letting him and his drones call us weak?
Wolf, you can come up with all kinds of what-ifs. You’ve got to deal with the reality on the ground. The reality on the ground is, we’ve made major progress, we’ve still got a lot of work to do. There are [...]

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Greg Palast tells us how to tell if Bush is lying (other than when his lips are moving):
There was that tongue again. When the President lies he’s got this weird nervous tick: He sticks the tip of his tongue out between his lips. Like a little boy who knows he’s fibbing. Like a snake licking [...]

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I’m confident that Hagel knows how to say the right things, but I remain highly skeptical that Hagel will actually ever do the right things. Nevertheless, this is good clean fun.

Transcript after the jump (Via TPM).

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Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann seems to have a thing for failed Presidents. Nothing a little therapy and medication couldn’t fix.

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Will gives a great play-by-play that covers the highlights without all the endless nauseating bloviation.  Start at the bottom and work your way up.

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Tony Blair ought to have lost any credibility on this topic.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday it would be “deeply irresponsible” to set an arbitrary deadline for pulling British forces out of Iraq.
Responding to a proposal by the opposition Liberal Democrat party to bring troops home by October, Blair said such a move [...]

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Just a quick question: how many blogs on Susie’s blogroll to the left have you visited before today?
And then a not-so-quick question: Are blogrolls vestigial for blogging?

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At some point in every political junky’s life, he or she becomes painfully cognizant of a horrid yet seductive force, often referred to as “the narrative,” which hangs like a stale fart over all that is good or evil in the public realm. I’m fairly certain we saw it change yesterday and again last night. [...]

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Honestly, all the stagecraft that goes into this. What a waste. Can’t we just have a talk to the Congress? And through that, a talk with the nation? Do we really have to have members of Congress fawning all over the President? Does it really need special lead-in music [...]

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Don’t mistake me for sold on the dude, but in my many years of watching opposition rebuttals to the SOTU, this was the first where I said “holy shit” out loud in an enthusiastic way. I’ll get bothered about him later.

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I lasted fifteen minutes. Most of them consisted of camera pans and commentary. I think the bile began to rise into my mouth about five seconds after “Madam Speaker.”
I know, I know - it’s just dogs and ponies, and it’s always bullshit. But listening to self-congratulatory spouting about cleaning up his own [...]

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The lovely little companion piece George Harrison wrote to “Here Comes the Sun”:

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For those who just can’t stand to watch the ignorant smirking, Christy Harvey is doing a SOTU radio broadcast tonight, with pre-game commentary starting at 8, and calls afterward. Find out if your one of the lucky few with radio coverage, or just go to Think Progress for streaming audio.
Don’t forget Will’s annual drinking [...]

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Drinking Liberally at Tangier, 18th & Lombard from 6 until 9. Free cream cheese and cow tongue on date nut bread sandwiches for early arrivals. Mandatory high priced vats of lark’s tongue in aspic for the stragglers. The god forsaken Philadelphia smoking ban is now in its third week, so don’t expect to enjoy yourselves [...]

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The “greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people” is about to get even greater.
Human-caused global warming is here — visible in the air, water and melting ice — and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week.
“The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table [...]

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28 percent. That’s downright Nixonian.

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Al Gore: Academy Award nominee.

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There’s a neat little project going on over at the Book of Scrap - The Baseball Fan’s Hall of Fame Project. You actually get to vote, and only players with a 90% or higher approval rating get in. If you love baseball, and baseball history, you’ll have some fun with this.

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It would seem that Time Magazine’s Washington bureau chief, Jay Carney, has been drinking out of Joe Klein’s stash of truthless syrum. Just read through his comments for a rundown of all of the many blatant errors in his SOTU preview post, or have a look at Atrios for a summary.
…Adding - Jay’s [...]

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What Will said.

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According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Pennsylvania’s municipalities dominate the 2007 list of America’s worst asthma cities. Three cities in the top ten in the nation. Six in the top 25. Are we number one in inhaler sales? Here’s the rankings:
2. Philadelphia
5. Harrisburg, Pa.
9. Scranton, Pa.
16. Allentown, Pa.
21. [...]

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