WaPo's The Trail blog talks about politics on Facebook, specifically a Stephen Colbert group:
Facebook has gotten increasingly political in recent months -- and why not? YouTube has its CNN/YouTube debates, and MySpace has partnered with MTV for its live instant messaging forums. Earlier this month, Facebook -- with more than 44 million members, ( Read more... )

Rumsfeld has fled from human rights charges in France.

The criminal complaint states that because of the failure of authorities in the United States and Iraq to launch any independent investigation into the responsibility of Rumsfeld and other high-level U.S. officials for torture despite a documented paper trail and government memos implicating ( Read more... )

Vanity Fair has a detailed article about the push towards bombing Iran: From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq.

"Everything the advocates of war said would happen hasn't happened," says the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, an influential conservative who backed the Iraq invasion. "And all the things the critics said ( Read more... )

I didn't get home until 6pm, and as soon as I got back a friend scooped me up for dinner & a movie, so I'm just now getting to check the internets to see how our massive peace march was recieved.

It looks like RenaRF has a great diary of the march up at Daily Kos, as does TimRoff. I'm going to leave the major analysis & commentary to them, ( Read more... )

I heard about this yesterday maybe, but I didn't realize it wasn't big news, because I don't watch cable news. If Keith Olbermann says something cool, someone will link me on YouTube. Anywhays...

A wingnut has been arrested for sending fake anthrax to Democrats, Olbermann, David Letterman, and Jon Stewart. Apparently this wingnut sending ( Read more... )

Sigh.
Another Marine stationed in Iraq has sent us a screenshot of what happens when you need some hot news on Macaca and Foley:
forbidden, this page (http://www.wonkette.com) is categorized as (Personal Pages) ALL SITES YOU VISIT ARE LOGGED AND FILED.
Nice little threat at the end, too. ( Read more... )

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Kevin Drum explains why he isn't writing about this latest Middle East violence.
1. It sparks unusually vicious comment threads, something this blog hardly needs since comments here spin out of control often enough anyway. Needless to say, this phenomenon is fairly universal.

2. The fight between Israel and the Palestinians is over half a ( Read more... )

AmericaBlog: Tony Snow calls anti-gay marriage amendment "civil rights legislation".

What the bleeding fuck? ... Look, they're making me swear in British. Wankers.

What's next? A congressional resolution honoring the "contributions" of Governor George Wallace in the name of "cultural sensitivity ( Read more... )

NY Times: Human Flu Transfers May Exceed Reports. (BugMeNot NYT logins)

The numbers are still relatively small, and they do not mean that the virus has mutated to pass easily between people - a change that could touch off a worldwide epidemic. All the clusters of cases have been among relatives or in nurses who were in long, close contact with ( Read more... )