Actually about Al Gore, not Senator Obama, in case you're wondering.

Pay particular attention to the letter Krugman has chosen. It is an L not a V or even a U.

Will change to reduce delayed explosion of bomblets. But not until 2018. Report ignores the fact that cluster bombs are inherently evil in our increasingly crowded world, and should be designated as WMDs. In a few years our nation went from trying to kill Osama bin Laden with cluster bombs in remote mountains (which was good) to selling them to Israel when we knew they were using them in populated areas, which was very bad. Maybe they should be banned altogether since some leaders will use them to push war, even for poll numbers.

Notice how the McCain camp repeats false rebuttals in an attempt to squash this report

Excerpt: Red Cross investigators flatly told the C.I.A. last year that America was practicing torture and vulnerable to war-crimes charges. Top Bush hands are starting to get sweaty about where they left their fingerprints. a major incentive for Mr. Cheney’s descent into the dark side was to cover up for the Bush White House’s failure to heed the Qaeda threat in 2001. Jack Cloonan, a special agent for the F.B.I.’s Osama bin Laden unit until 2002, told Ms. Mayer that Sept. 11 was “all preventable.”

Magazine staff says putting all elements of stories about Obama's together in 'satire' exposes the 'caricature' the right has tried to insert as an actual depiction of the pair, but the Obama campaign believes the picture is "tasteless and offensive". I agree with both sides. But isn't this a little more Mad's type of stuff? Picture of New Yorker cover at linked site. (Warning graphic depiction of 'fist bump'. Please make sure that sensitive individuals are out of room before viewing. /sarcasm)

Porter explains the growing rift between the US and the people who control all that oil.

Remember this is the kind of ad that Senator Obama warned about, which makes an end run around the public financing system and therefore is 'gaming' the system.

Herbert notes the lack of empathy from the McCain campaign with Phil Gramm's comments old and new, and then asks the Democratic candidates to raise holy hell to be different than the Republicans. Sorry, Mr. H., like many of us you chose to be a little lazy and blame our candidates. Who need to raise holy hell is you and me and all us rank and file liberals, even undecideds who are decided that our nation is going down the drain. We need to stop being lazy and/or timid and remind our friends and family just what really is at stake in our nation. Then our candidates can be bolder. We are the ones that let us down. We are the ones that can fix it.

We fought the Vietnam war to keep it from being communist. Yet, now business wants to take production to Vietnam instead of Thailand (both cheaper than China now) specifically because it's communist and has great control of its workers. Myerson may be making implications about getting what we want from Iraq war.

Excerpt: Zell, for those of you fortunate enough not to follow news of the newspaper business, is the Chicago real estate magnate who last year purchased the Tribune Co., which owns the Times, the Chicago Tribune and a number of smaller papers. At the rate he's going, he's well on his way to accomplishing a feat that McNamara didn't even contemplate: destroying the L.A. Times.

The Times Did a Report on Matt Harding (the dancing guy whose video I had up for a while. I even learned more than I did from the interview (available on You Tube)

Just a couple of weeks ago the Republicans cried foul when Barack Obama refused to go along with the broken public financing system in which a candidate had allies spend overwhelming amounts of money while he collected taxpayer dollars in a supposedly pristine environment. Now we see the dirty donors that will overwhelmingly enhance McCains virginal public funds.

Plenty of blame to go around for lousy economy of the new millennial period, but Republicans share most of it.

Heck tell your friends, lovers, and relatives too. Help them to contact their federal representatives and Senators. The last thing we need is to let the problems exposed in this report continue.

Excerpt: We can build spectacular new stadiums for football and baseball teams (the Yanks, the Mets, the Giants and the Jets are all getting ready to move into staggeringly expensive new homes) but we can’t rebuild New Orleans or reconstruct the World Trade Center site destroyed almost seven years ago. This year’s presidential election is the perfect opportunity to place the truth before the American public in the form of a realistic examination of the state of the nation, and an honest consideration of creative ideas for moving forward. Instead, we’re getting hour after hour and day after day of trivia: Who’s up? Who’s down? Who’s patriotic? Who’s not?

Excerpts:... the Clark affair did reveal something important — not about General Clark, but about Mr. McCain. Now we know what a McCain administration would represent: namely, a third term for Karl Rove. ...the McCain campaign went beyond condemning General Clark’s remarks; it went out of its way to distort them.

Proof, that in mainstream reports the press tends to run to the safe right wing side. And it doesn't hurt to make such a big deal of something that it begins to have scandal qualities. The press loves scandals because they boost their ratings. The Rs know this and play the fourth estate like a fiddle.

Produced by phenomenon that creates auroras. Could be heard by anyone out there. Earth also hums.

A very erudite treatise on why we should not continue in Afghanistan and Iraq, and points to what may happen if we stay.

Yeah, I could have ripped off the video (it has a share option) with just a hat tip, but I have the sexy "African animals being mellow video up and Truth Dig is a good low bandwidth site.