Obama: I will never question others’ patriotism.
Doesn’t matter, dude. Basically the entire Republican campaign is about questioning your patriotism, it’s the only arrow they’ve got left in the quiver.
…adding, that Obama’s comments are in part a response to this, Wesley Clark’s statement yesterday that the fact that John McCain was shot down over Vietnam doesn’t […]

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Ah, well.
I see LancoYokel spent his Sunday penning a critique of last week’s print output. Which is fine. Though I’ll stay away from the criticism of the convention center piece because I unfortunately will probably be writing more stories about this issue as we go down the line, and as a general rule I mostly […]

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Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi in a devastating portrayal of John McCain as Flip-Flop John Kerry on steroids - and an even more damning indictment of those who may vote for him:
Cindy Oestriecher, a McCain supporter who turned out for his speech in New Orleans, is stumped when I ask her for an example of Obama’s […]

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Kunstler on Canadian TV. Long but important.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqg3P3wOV60

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Who knew there was a video for this? But that is indeed why YouTube rocks…
Byrds 1967, off “Younger Than Yesterday,” and I only wish I was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2NNUCDzis

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Fascinating exchange between Sullivan and Max Boot in regards to the question of “what now” in Iraq, with Boot comparing Iraq to Germany (as all neocons do) and saying something amazing:
The broader point is that the success of American military interventions has usually been closely related to their length. The longer we stay, the more […]

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Any Brian Wilson heads out there?
When I was a kid the Beach Boys were one of the first “rock and roll bands” I listened to, the usual stuff - surf, fun fun fun. Endless Summer. Wasn’t until later I got into Brian Wilson, then went back and listened to the band’s records in a completely […]

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Via TPM, GOP stalwart Grover Norquist drops by the offices of the LA Times, where he has this to say about the Democratic nominee:
“John Kerry with a tan.”
Could have been worse, though, as Greg Sargent notes:
He could have termed the Illinois Senator “John Kerry in blackface.”

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This one, really, speaks for itself.

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Here’s what I don’t understand about the media, the profession in which I’ve worked these past 19 years:
So today, the price of oil is once more way up - almost at $143 per barrel, $142.91 as of this writing. Another new record. And stocks are down more than 113 points right now - always subject […]

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Interesing debate going on with Sullivan, Daniel Larison and some others, regarding the role of Israel in our decision to invade Iraq, and the push to attack Iran. Indeed, Joe Klein actually uses the term “divided loyalties” in reference to the neocons, though Larison thinks that’s a bit much - suggesting instead something we hit […]

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No ice at the North Pole this summer?:
It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of […]

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Oil already crossed the $142 rubicon today, though back at about $141.40 as of this writing.
Was reading something yesterday written waaaaayyyy back in 2005, when the author commented about how oil had risen $5 within one week, and that was a big deal. These days we get $5 swings on a day-to-day basis. The volatility […]

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John McCain, as previously noted, is aware of the Internet. And now, he’s rewarding trolls:
On McCain’s “Blog Interact” page, where the candidate’s supporters can find recommended blogs of all ideological stripes, the campaign is actually awarding points for trolling.
Help spread the word about John McCain on news and blog sites. Your efforts to help get […]

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It’s Canadian, so what do they know. Hopefully not much:

A new forecast calls for gasoline prices to hit $7 (U.S.) a gallon in the next two years and oil to soar to $200 a barrel by 2010.
The report by CIBC World Markets also predicts there will be 10 million fewer cars on the road in […]

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That would be, consevative supporters of the Democratic presidential candidate. Bob Novak says Colin Powell is among them:
[Powell’s] tenuous 13-year relationship with the Republican Party, following his retirement from the Army, has ended. The national security adviser for Ronald Reagan left the present administration bitter about being ushered out of the State Department a year […]

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Oil crossed it this afternoon, trading as high as $140.05 before falling back - this, on the OPEC president’s prediction that oil could hit $150 to $170 this summer before retreating in the fall.
I think this is what you call a long, hot summer.
Update: Make that “as high as $140.39 before before retreating slightly to […]

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Gotta love wingnuts. Or not.
Today on his radio show, CNN host Glenn Beck expressed his disdain of the recent Supreme Court ruling granting terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts, exclaiming that if he were President, he would do away with detaining and prosecuting terrorism suspects altogether. Instead, a President Beck […]

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I don’t necessarily disagree with the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision that Washington D.C.’s gun ban was unconstitutional, and that Americans indeed have the right to own guns for self-defense and hunting.
Methinks, though, Judge Scalia is dismissing one significant concern here:
Scalia said nothing in Thursday’s ruling should “cast doubt on long-standing prohibitions on the possession of […]

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Via Sullivan, William Saletan at Slate.com peruses a new study on “sexually antagonistic selection in human male homosexuality,” which concludes, bascially, that it’s inborn - and for a reason, too.
Saletan:
It starts with four curious patterns. First, male homosexuality occurs at a low but stable frequency in a wide range of societies. Second, the female relatives […]

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