TURN ON YOUR HEART LIGHT
If you haven't been following the Bush domestic spying scandal, here's your chance to do some catching up. Because next Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee begins its hearings, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez will be the first perp under the lights. Superhero Glenn Greenwald has come up with ten key questions for the Bush consigliere. The answers should prove illuminating.

BUT WHAT DO YOU WANT, MY LIEGE?
"Peace is never dead, cuz people want peace."

— George W. Bush

DICTUM? I HARDLY KNEW HIM.
I am coming out of a busy stretch and looking to gain superpowers. I am wearing slacks. Eating snacks. Taking hot showers.

I want to pimp a couple websites that have been doing great work lately. Both have come out of nowhere and taken spots atop the political heap, and for good reason. Please check them out.

Unclaimed Territory, by Glenn Greenwald

Firedoglake

THE GALLANT SOCIOPATH
Remember when President Bush, after finally cutting his five-week vacation short in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, told us "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees"? It was bullshit back then. And it's certifiable bullshit now.

Welcome, fellow citizens, to the Culture of Life®*.

*Warning: Culture of Life® might cause death.

THE VIEW FROM CHOPPER NINE
Stand by your man.

Unless he's a war critic.

Make shit up.

Bury inconvenient results.

Or simply reinterpret them.

ESSENTIAL OILS & NATURAL BOTANICALS
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As you pivot on your office chair today, consider for a moment that the Supreme Court has been undergoing and continues to undergo a drastic change — one that will alter our way of life significantly over the next fifteen years. Think about the changes that will be made (e.g. the overturning of Roe v. Wade, deference to corporate over individual interests, narrowing of civil rights, repeal of affirmative action and diversity programs, loosening of environmental standards, reinforcement of executive power, etc.), and how you feel about those changes. Then think about what's going on right now — the hearings, the media coverage, your own priorities. How does it all stack up?

Are you concerned? Do you care? Does it matter?

Oh, and don't miss this one. Seriously.

WELCOME TO AMERICA, HERE'S YOUR LOLLIPOP
NSA to whistleblower: You can't testify to Congress about a lot of what you saw when you worked with us because it was a special secret program and Congress doesn't have the security clearance to hear about it, and if you do testify about it, you have to tell us what you know first, but only after you have requested and received directions from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

I AIN'T GOT NO BLAH BLAH, BABY
Saturday night at Kingston Mines, Joanna Connor and John Primer rocked the face of the earth with some of the best blues guitar ever to enter my inner ear.