Sitting in for our beloved TRex who's homeward-bound from Jane's house tonight, I thought we could gather 'round the LateNite hearth to tell some travel tales.  The call of the far-off train whistle, the allure of the international air terminal, the excitement of not knowing what's around the bend on that mountain pass you're hiking, [...]

– Seems that George Tenet has a book coming out (if he ever finishes writing it).  Wonder how he and Dick Cheney are getting along these days?  Somehow, I suspect that the bloom will be off Condi's rose in Tenet's telling.  Could be an interesting, if not self-serving, read. – Holden has some words of…erm…wisdom [...]

Thought we could use a tour through some news for today: – If you haven't yet seen this, do go to Crooks and Liars and watch Paul Bremer squirm under questioning in Rep. Henry Waxman's oversight hearings on war profiteering.  What's $12 BILLION missing dollars between cronies, anyway?  (More live hearing coverage here.) – Yet [...]

As I write this, on the other side of Ann Arbor (where I'm located), Anatomy of Deceit is being printed. Since we don't have the actual book out yet, Jane suggested I use this opportunity to describe how my blogging on the Plame story got turned into a book. True to Jane and Markos' vision [...]

  Last weekend, I asked for nominations for Great Moments in Politically Correct Humor.  No one responded.  Does this qualify?    I'm half latino, as I've written about before.  And, as some of you may have gathered, I'm gay, queer, homolicious.  ¡Vivo mi manera!   My identity as a latino no doubt accounts for my [...]

Scarce just put up a very good YouTube clip of Markos from last night’s NOW special on "Blog the Vote." It’s actually quite effective and Markos makes the point I always appreciate when folks accuse us of preaching to the choir — they overlook the fact that preaching to the choir serves a very important [...]

Tonight’s musical selection is inspired by Christy’s post on New Orleans this morning.  It starts with the song that kept going through my head during and right after the hurricane:  Tom Waits’ I Wish I Was in New Orleans.  Sad, beautiful, atmospheric, a valentine to a place and most of all, to a culture, to [...]

Last night my partner and I saw the Dixie Chicks in DC.  It was awesome. The show wasn’t very political, but Natalie got in a few digs here and there.  They took the stage to the tune of Hail to the Chief.  She pointed out the presidential box at DC’s Verizon Center (screw Verizon:  SaveTheInternet!) [...]

If I can master the lip-biting thing, I’m all set!  It’s not Bill Clinton’s fault George Bush ignored 9-11 warnings. But this bullshit from Barack Obama is Bill Clinton’s fault.  The greatest victory of the radical right wing has been to train Democratic politicians to disrespect, mischaracterize and run against their base in the progressive [...]

For the week ending 6/24…  "Kos . . . controls . . . the Gambino crime family?!"   Well, it’s been a tumultuous week – Geraldo Rivera wallowing in his own inadequacies (which is, admittedly, preferable to drawing Marine combat locations in the sand for the cameras), Ricky Sanitorium taking one for the team by [...]