Excellent interview with Gore Vidal on our current state.

And, to have a major depression going on, economic, really, collapse all round the world and begin a war against an enemy that has done nothing against us other than what our media occasionally alleges, this is lunacy. And I have a hunch –I’ve been getting quite a bit around the country –most people are beginning to sense it. The poll numbers are not as good as the Bush regime would have us believe.

Not pretty, but compelling. Read it here.

Includes “The Royal Session” from the Bo-Keys. Memphis soul players- tasty.

Ok, everybody is gonna think I’m nuts, but this guy is evil. I put no stock in the Left Behind mentality, but Arnold might be the antichrist those books harp about…

Special elections? Bypassing the legislature? Yikes. Thats Huey Long land.

Thomas Knapp has a novel solution to the Iraq mess. When it’s time to pony up the Chimp’s latest blank check, include a timetable to leaving.

Or impeach. Read about it here.

Don’t like smoking? Then don’t do it.
Don’t like smelling it? Then go somewhere else.
Think secondhand smoke is dangerous? Read more.

Like to smoke? Play golf in San Francisco. Bad law, bad implementation.

This time, it’s Maggie Gallagher pimping Bush’s “Strong Familes” bullcrap.

Story here at the WaPo. Use bugmenot.com if you don’t have an account with them.

Remember, wingnuts: If you have to lie to make your point, you don’t have a point to make.

On the spinner today, the lovely and talented Beth Orton, and the remix CD from 2003 The Other Side of Daybreak. Great stuff. And I ain’t twee.

People are getting up in arms because a Senator dared called C. Rice a liar in her confirmation hearings.

Well, she is a liar. Sorry state of affairs when such an evident statement of fact creates a fuss. It’s gonna be a long road to getting these people out of here, but it must be done.

Listening to a cd of Tuva music:

Great stuff. I heard a group of monks perform this sort of thing live years ago, and it was tremendous.

What Northwoods was?