Colbert Report: Katrina van den Heuvel defends the Nation's coverage of the Iraq debacle, "We never lost our head -- while too much of the media gave head".

Spike Lee Talks of War, Gangsta Rap, Making Films and Setting Goals

Brad Blog: Reporting on the Voter Fraud scandal at the heart of the U.S. Attorney purge

I caught this last night on C-Span's Run for the White House: Romney and the NRA Guy... He is toast. Just like McCain is toast... Political Death watch

David Corn: Jeane Kirkpatrick, Neocon Godmother Considered Iraq War a Mistake

Each year, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression gives out Jefferson Muzzle awards to “the most egregious First Amendment violators.” This year’s winners: the Bush administration (for censoring scientists on climate change) and the Defense Department (for its “investigations of organizations that conducted peaceful anti-war protests”).

This Morning's Run

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SB and JC last Summer at Barr Camp -- training on Pikes Peak

Pikes Peak Cog Railway Terminal, Manitou Springs, Colorada

My house is just up the canyon from here hidden in the white mist.

Old Sam outside my house this last winter. I miss you old boy...

William Rivers Pitt: The American Tragedy of John McCain (He once was my favorite Republican)

Vanity Fair: Texas Chainsaw Management

by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"The verdict of history sometimes takes centuries. The verdict on George W. Bush as the nation's environmental steward has already been written in stone. No president has mounted a more sustained and deliberate assault on the nation's environment."

Christophe Glibert Photo Art

War in Iraq: The Media's Fault?

Oil Quiz -- Test Your Knowledge

Fox News Reporting on April Fools in America

Funniest double indictment of Fox News and GWB ever!!!

Rocky Mountain Ranger, Rick Tosches on the new Grand Canyon Skywalk: Tired Tribe takes grandeur out of canyon Skywalk. Thanks Rick. I think I'll pass after hearing that less than rave review... I would rather do a rim-to-rim run of the canyon anyway... now that is definitely on my list of someday must do's...

I thought these things might be clues

Daily Show: John Kerry talks to Jon Stewart about the important work that RFK Jr's Waterkeepers is doing to combat the Bush Administration polluters and his new book: This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future

London Review of Books: The General in his Labyrinth (Musharaf's last days ruling Pakistan...apres moi le deluge)

Important for the revival of Mongolian Tibetan Buddhism: The Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition.

Watching John Edwards on C-Span's "Road to the White House"... I am gravitating towards him as my candidate... I like Dennis Kucinich and Wes Clark, but they probably don't have much of a chance... John Edwards is a decent man and he has put forth detailed plans for health care and energy.

High Country News: Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields

If you don’t have a college degree, it’s the best job in the West. Unless you die, unnoticed.

Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this "cloak."

Grieving Couple commit suicide after pet dog dies

Chernobyl: "There is only one healing force, and that is nature." Arthur Schopenhauer

Good advice: Getting Rid of your debt without worrying about the "Latte Factore"

Tom Waits- Chocolate Jesus

What better response to this:

NYC Chocolate Jesus Exhibit Canceled After Outrage

than Tom Waits singing Chocolate Jesus...

Habeaus Corpus, R.I.P.

Andrew Sullivan cites the views of Winston Churchill -- whom Bush followers love to trot out (manipulatively) as their prop to symbolize endless warfare -- expressed when Churchill was, as Sullivan puts it, "fighting a war against the greatest evil imaginable, when the very survival of Britain as an independent and free country was in the balance":

The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him judgement by his peers for an indefinite period, is in the highest degree odious, and is the foundation of all totalitarian governments whether Nazi or Communist.


The extent to which this current version of the Republican Party is hostile to our most basic constitutional traditions and defining political principles really cannot be overstated. They simply do not believe in them.

BradBlog: "Evidence Suggests U.S. Attorney Firings May Have Been Part of White House Scheme to Help Game 2008 Election"
Why would Rove put his boy into the Arkansas seat? To reopen investigations on Hillary? Do you think? We know from the New Jersey election that Chris Christie, the former Bush ''Pioneer'' who is now the U.S. attorney for New Jersey, issued subpoenas for corruption charges on Bob Menendez two months before the 2006 election -- and news of the subpoenas was quickly leaked to local news media. The charges were bogus and later dropped.

The other attorney replacements are all Rove boys, who are charged with investigating the canard of voter fraud, which really means the Repug tactic of voter suppression.