Back Tuesday

I’m going out of town to visit family for the weekend. Feel free to use this comment space to talk about anything you want. I’d like to have some guest authors for times like this but it’s a holiday weekend and many people are going out of town.

Ed Rosenthal update

here.

I wrote about this in the post about Americans for Safe Access.

Would getting out of Iraq make us safer?

Of course it would, but George Bush claims otherwise. Juan Cole tries to imagine the conversation that Al Qaida might have in the bizarro world.

Keith Olbermann channels Edward R. Murrow

Please watch this and share it with all of your family and friends. No matter how angry it may make them.

Hat-tip to Thehim.

Who inspired me?

Peter Gabriel. Kate Bush. Tori Amos. Gong. Happy Rhodes. Yes. Genesis. Boards of Canada. Múm. Flunk. Gentle Giant. Halou. Imogen Heap. Kula Shaker. Love. Lemon Jelly. Lamb. Van der Graaf Generator. Pink Floyd. Premiata Forneria Marconi. John Lennon. Rush. Sarah McLachlan. Shpongle. Sinead O’Connor. Steve Hillage. The Police. Tortoise.

Too many others to mention.

Who inspired you?

Blog of the day: and doctor biobrain’s response is…

Doctor Biobrain is one of those clever people who challenges default assumptions and shows you how he is thinking. It’s a fun read, too.

Take a look at his analysis of the current Republican Party playbook, candidates following their talking points so closely as to never have or express an independent thought of their own.