Featuring a couple of new videos from Jess Hill and Sharon Van Etten. Two perfect songs for a warm night on the porch swing.

Chuck Devore, for whom California Senator Barbara Boxer must thank her lucky stars, has a new ad that uses an out-of-context quote from US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that makes it seem that the Wymyn’s Ecology Collective will soon monitor every carbon-emitting male American citizen.

Why are so many so scared? Maybe it’s our rulers’ enormous Fear Machine. But there is reason for optimism, says Eduardo Galeano in this rare and charming interview. Find out just why Hugo Chavez gave President Obama Galeano’s book. Galeano’s stories reveal history while inspiring more.

With Bibi in charge, the rhetoric is heating up.

Richard Clarke thinks Cheney and Condi should stop using their lack of preparedness for 9/11 as an excuse for breaking the law in response.

Dr. George Tiller, for decades a target of violent anti-abortion terrorists, was murdered at his church during Sunday morning worship. Operation Rescue’s Randall Terry put out a “condemnation” of the murder that spent more time attacking the victim than the murderer — and posters at various right-wing boards have gone much farther, openly celebrating Dr. Tiller’s killing.

“Truth springs from the mouths of babes.” How often have you heard some variation on that theme when it comes to kids blurting out what they think or feel without filtering it through social expectations or attempts to curry favor?

Unlike the adults who populate the DC Beltway trying to use communications and posturing to their political power play advantage, kids tend to just speak bluntly about what is on

George Tiller, who earlier this year was acquitted on nineteen charges stemming from Kansas’ ever-restrictive abortion laws, was murdered by a gunman this morning at his Wichita church.

Last year I was of the school that asserted that oil prices were a macro- not micro- problem. That is, it was too much money speculating in oil, and not demand. It wasn’t that demand wasn’t outstripping supply, but it was not the case that we had reached the point were supplies were so squeezed as to justify prices.

How were these shows even half tolerable before Krugman was there to brush aside GOP/Village talking points like pesky gnats?