I never realized quite how sexy this Kate Bush song was until now. Sometimes a cover song brings you a whole new appreciation of the original. The lovely, haunting video was made by Placebo's fans, who the band asked to film themselves singing the song and send it in.

Greg Sargent points us to Neil Cavuto's plea to Democrats to stop treating Pox News like it has cooties. It's kind of pitiful, really. Sargent: Best Cavuto quote: "Our offer still stands for any of them to come on this show at any time." This is very good -- a simple and elegant way for Dems to keep grinding the network's nearly nonexistent credibility deeper and deeper into the dirt.

Well, thanks to the RNC, I finally get to write a non-depressing post. Because as self-destructively clueless as the Democratic Party is, they're still in better shape than the party that wants to keep the Iraqupation going forever. Check this out: What 83 year-old William Sidwell of Queen City, Missouri found in his mailbox last week scared him.

Patriotism worth its name grants the highest priority to the nation, not the Chief Executive, and knows the difference between the two. Louis Fisher and I have two interests in common: Jose Padilla and tennis. Fisher happens to be one of the nation’s foremost authorities on arbitrary imprisonment and stretching presidential power and is a senior scholar in the Law Library at the Library of Congress and author of more than a dozen

I’ve been transfixed with this “Chocolate Rain” phenomenon on YouTube ….. for hours, just trying to take it all in. I went to bed with it in my head last night and woke up with it still in there. I’m going back for more viewings when I finish this piece (but that’s just how I roll). Ok, “Chocolate Rain” is a song/video clip by a Minneapolis grad student named Tay Zonday, who

Am feeling a bit Orwellian today, so it\'s a classic Devo \"A Beautiful World.\"  What suits your mood today?  Feel free to share a link in the comments... -- Teresa at MakingLight -- who actually works for a real publishing house in real life -- deconstructs the idiocy that is wingnut welfare publishing.  And the newest scam in self-published wingnut-idiocy disguised as victimhood-for-not-so-much-profit.  Excellent work.  -- TBogg captures the Bush Administration in a

I really don't want to go here again but a very self-serving notion has taken off regarding the blogosphere in the MSM, namely that the liberal blogosphere is a male dominated boys club. In support of this, Ellen Goodman today has to erase us and other female bloggers from the landscape in order to make her point.

Or so they say. Among the folks who are in complete agreement with the O’Hanlon and Pollack upbeat reports – which followed their Pentagon organized, funded and … chaperoned tour of Iraq: KBR gets Iraq bonus Halliburton Co.’s former Kellogg, Brown & Root unit, the largest contractor in Iraq by work orders, earned little more than half the bonus available under its $2.5 billion no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure, a government audit

Am feeling a bit Orwellian today, so it's a classic Devo "A Beautiful World."  What suits your mood today?  Feel free to share a link in the comments... -- Teresa at MakingLight -- who actually works for a real publishing house in real life -- deconstructs the idiocy that is wingnut welfare publishing.  And the newest scam in self-published wingnut-idiocy disguised as victimhood-for-not-so-much-profit.  Excellent work.  -- TBogg captures the Bush Administration in a

We have a treat for everyone for tomorrow's Blue America candidate chat, scheduled for 2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT.  Rick Noriega will be here -- he's a candidate for Senate in Texas, and he is running against the odious John "Box Turtle" Cornyn.  Rick Noriega is fantastic -- Howie has some background here -- but don't just take our word for it.  Take a peek at what one of the top hispanic Republicans