Odds and Ends

We are now officially less than one year away from Bush leaving office. Here's the news...

If you ignore the huge market collapse (and low job growth, and weak dollar, and housing collapse, and etc etc), you fools would see how amazing the economy is and that it just needs some stimulating. Cheer up.

Fred Thompson drops out; GOP base to endorse Reagan's skeleton tomorrow.

And Michael Bloomberg seems closer to letting bored, unemployed DC consultants convince him to waste a billion dollars ruining the 2008 election.

And as MoveOn.org works to mobilize progressives for the 2008 election, a new right-wing equivalent-- subtlely named "Freedom's March"-- is building its army.

No-shit headline of the day: 'Musharraf: Pakistan isn't hunting Osama'

This AP story sums up the silliness of the Bush war on terror: "Jose Padilla, an American once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to a relatively lenient 17-year prison term on unrelated terror support charges." America is safe once more!

Finally, today's the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Never forget how hard this was fought.