Hey, the Bill Foundation needs your help --
This rescue organization does great work, and lots of it, but they're out of money (if you link, scroll to the bottom of that page for the story of Ferris). Throw 'em a bone if you can.

I said I wouldn't use that word again, so here goes --
"In another (pick one) shameful/reproachful/repugnant display of (pick one) deceit/dishonesty/treachery" Republicans continue refining their fear, intimidation and voter disenfranchisement programs. (If you have the time, follow the links in that last one to some really useful analyses.)

Ron Reagan Jr in an interview with the Sunday Herald--

"The reality of this administration is so ugly that most Americans, even those who are more or less opposed to the administration, really don't want to come to grips with that. This is an administration that has cheated to get into the White House. It's not something Americans ever want to think about their government. My sense of these people is that they don't have any respect for the public at large. They have a revolutionary mindset. I think they feel that anything they can do to prevail - lie, cheat, whatever - is justified by their revolutionary aims."

For those who prefer to think in graphics --
NYT has a cool interactive graphic feature that tracks Bush's approval ratings, the money race, House and Senate races by state, etc.

Kinder, gentler homophobia? --
"By way of explaining that it's her Christian duty to love all homosexuals, Maureen explains that God loves Jeffrey Dahmer, too. Then she produces this theory about people whose sexuality is non-hetero: 'I think the reality is that there are mistakes. There are handicapped people too. There are people that are retarded. We are not perfect. God does not make us all perfect.'"...Jana Prikryl reviews two thought-provoking books describing two very different paths taken by gay Christians.