Kerouac:  “Sure, ‘Cheerios’ sell well.  But they’re just so 1940’s, y’dig?  Whereas my new ‘Daddy-O’s!’—delicious whole grain O’s baked through with bits of cannabis and topped with a sweet heroin glaze—now these really speak to a new generation, man.”

(picture courtesy NRO; h/t John Cole) **** update:  HOW DARE YOU WARMONGERING FASCISTS QUESTION MOTHER SHEEHAN’S PATRIOTISM!* **** update 2:  Sheehan said to her supporters today (I’m paraphrasing), “when the history books talk about the Camp Casey movement, you’ll be able to say you met Casey’s Mom”—proof positive that Cindy Sheehan believes her own press clippings and truly does see herself as a modern day Gandhi or King, Jr. Next,

In “Lessons Learned:  Red States May Be Outbreeding Blue States, but Blue Cities—Particularly Blue College Towns—Can Help Turn the Tide,” Bill Savage, a lecturer in the Department of English and a college adviser at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, argues that indoctrination is not really indoctrination when it’s people like him doing the indoctrinating; instead, it’s remedying the horrific materialist upbringing foisted upon the rich womb droppings of wealthy Rethuglicans,

John Cole points me to this astounding piece from TalkLeft’s TChris, reprinted here in all it’s confused glory: The right wing built its power by embracing extremism, but surely those who still claim to be “compassionate conservatives” will publicly oppose this hate mongering: “Members of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending the United States, a country that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to

A very sunny and pleasant Monday morning, high 70s, a few high clouds.  Looking southward, I spot a heavyset woman leaving Arby’s with her mouth wrapped around the fat buttery corner of a Market Fresh bacon and turkey sandwich, a large beverage poking sidewise from her purse, which appears overburdened with sundries. Closer to home, a dozen or so hornets have built a nest inside one of the crossbeams of

Looking southward, all I see right now is the vivid orange neon of an Arby’s sign, bright and crisp against a blue-black Colorado sky.  Well, that and a group of Mexican teens sitting in the bed of a Ford pickup, passing a joint and shotgunning cans of Bud Light.  But I suspect they‘ll be evacuating the lot, too—just as soon as they’ve finished their large Curly Fries.* Developing… **** More

Since 2003, readers of the Southern Illinois Daily Egyptian have been following the heartwrenching story of Sgt Dan Kennings, deployed in Iraq, and his 8-year-old daughter, Kodee, waiting and hoping for Daddy to return home safely.  Powerful stuff, particularly after news hit Southern Illinois that Dan had been killed in action—leaving Kodee (whose mother had died years earlier) an orphan. …Which makes it all the more unforgivable that the whole