At YKos, this morning's Libby Trial Panel was a special treat, much like last year's Plame Panel that Jane organized. Today's panel was chaired by Jeralyn Merritt and included our Christy and the inimitable Marcy (emptywheel) as well as Sheldon (Shelly) Snook. Snook is the Federal District Court media coordinator who made all the media arrangements that allowed the bloggers to cover the Libby trial.

Finally arrived in Chicago yesterday evening after the world's most frustrating stint in airport purgatory. (I could get a strong signal on the airport WiFi, just couldn't get online due to a lack of space on the signal...arrrrrrgh...huge thank you to Phoenix Woman and the fabu mods for helping me out with the Tillman Hearing posts yesterday.

Good news from the previous thread!LoudounLib says July 31st, 2007 at 8:06 pm TRex, this was for you, from the last thread: bonkers says: July 31st, 2007 at 7:34 pm Not sure I’ll be able to stop back later, but just in case he doesn’t know, I wanted to let TRex know that Amy Winehouse is playing just down the street from YKos this coming Sunday at Grant Park.

Happy birthday to egregious and scarecrow... Good heavens.  What a week, and it is only Tuesday: -- Glenn Greenwald kicks the snot out of some idiocy.  (With pictures!) So, as we decide now what to do about Iraq, we should definitely look to Michael O'Hanlon to guide us. His judgment has proven to be so reliable, his reports about the war so trustworthy and credible, and the course he advocated so wise and constructive.

For far too long, our foreign policy has been based on militarism rather than partnering with people around the globe to move us all towards a better life. In the 60’s, Martin Luther King, Jr said: "It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty." and sadly that “tragic mix-up” remains.

Okay, I'm starting to get really excited about YearlyKos. I didn't get to go last year, but this year I'll be there with Jane and Christy and Pach and Marcy and Siun and Swopa, oh my! There's going to be a Thursday night PubQuiz competition and we're thinking about putting together a team.

...what would it be?  Via The Nation: At the second annual YearlyKos Convention in Chicago the first week of August, web activists plan to explore new ways to communicate voter concerns to Democratic presidential candidates. The convention's Presidential Leadership Forum --the first candidate gathering for the netroots --seeks to provide an alternative to mainstream media's "gotcha" questions and horse-race coverage.

A friend asked me last night if I was going to submit a question to the Presidential debate at Yearly Kos. I had to think about it for a minute, then I realized that my question isn't so much for the whole group of candidates, but rather for the four who are currently U.S.

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, the Yearly Kos Scooter Libby Live-Blogging Panel will soon be in session.If you are attending Yearly Kos in Chicago, it's time to mark your calendars for opening day, August 2. You won't want to miss your esteemed hostess Christy Hardin-Smith and indispensable FDL contributor Marcy Wheeler of The Next Hurrah provide their behind-the-scenes look at live-blogging the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of I.