In today’s world of multiple electronic connections, the line between work and leisure can become blurred. I choose to embrace that blurring, but I can understand those folks who see it as a trap.

Thank you for creating this wonderful place on the internet, Jane Hamsher. Won’t the rest of you join me in thanking the cosmos for Jane today, and wishing her a happy, happy birthday?

The Republican Character witnesses are growing ever more impressive.

Good morning! It’s Race, FinReg, Elections, Afghanistan, Intel, and BP Oil Disaster today. Also, Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture is today’s Book Salon, hosted by dak, join the discussion at 5pm ET. And watertiger will be Virtually Speaking, tune in.

Snagglepuss — Remember Your Lions. This Hanna-Barbera Studios cartoon was released on September 16,1961.

Grab your popcorn, put your feet up on the seatback in front of ya, and no spitballs aimed at the ushers please. This is Late Late Night FireDogLake, where off topic is the topic … so dive in. What’s on your mind?

Oil Spill Charity “F-Bomb-A-Thon” from UnF–kTheGulf.com on Vimeo. I am as is well-known foursquare against the use of obscenity and profanity in online political discourse; it is totally unnecessary, unbecoming, and immature, and reveals the total lack of education of those who indulge in such ill-bred coarseness. Those troglodyte fuckers can go fuck themselves with [...]

Schorr’s defiance of the powerful and his independence, standing up to his boss Ted Turner at CNN, marked him as a real journalist.

These last couple of days, I happened to see a couple of pieces by Robert Borosage. The first of these called “Kick the Old and Disabled to Show We’re Serious About Deficits,” is about organizing and fighting back against the deficit terrorist movement to cut Social Security, and reported that Borosage’s organization, the Campaign for America’s Future, “has joined with 50 other organizations (and growing) representing 35 million Americans to form a coalition”, called “Strengthen Social Security.” He also refers to a panel on Social Security at Netroots Nation that will be “inviting the bloggers across the country to help fend off the assault on Social Security, and join the debate about priorities over the next years.”

What are the consequences of General Kayani’s 3 year extension for the US war in Afghanistan?

On Friday at Netroots Nation a group of immigration activists brought the reality of Arizona’s SB 1070 to Netroots attendees by staging a brilliant piece of street (well okay, hotel) theater. As attendees move into the auditorium for the free lunch sponsored by Moveon.org., Latino activists wearing pseudo-ICE badges, costume HSA patches and otherwise garbed as “authority” stopped people before they entered the hall to grab their sandwiches and sodas and hear a panel on civil rights in the modern era.