Dear Susie

It's Susie Madrak's birthday, and she's celebrating by playing some Beatles tunes. Or, as we call it at the Riggs Residence, Tuesday. (I was going to say "just another day," but I thought it a bit obvious.) Happy #54 from Penny Lane Pen-Elayne, Susie!

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L'shana tova to my Jewish readers! Have you considered The Great Schlep? Usually I have little patience for Sarah Silverman, but I liked this bit. In a related story, political yarmulkes.

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Wow, what a way to begin the new year! Can I just hide in my bed until Thursday? Here, have an automatic inanity idiom extruder (via Gerard), although I think we're just about full-up on inanity...

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I was having a dickens of a time finding the Return of Tina Fey As Sarah Palin video from last night's SNL. I hope this works.



The HTML code to embed this official NBC video is like about 40 lines long!

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I'm not quite sure where most of today went. I certainly didn't get as far as I'd have liked with the Rosh Hashanah cards, but I did accomplish something that I only do once every decade or so -- I cleaned out my clothes closet. All my tops that had stains, were ill-fitting, or were just getting ragged came out of my closet, so to speak, and went right into the Clothing Drop at the gas station around the corner. Now I won't feel so guilty when I buy tops that actually look nice and fit me better.

Also didn't get a lot of cleaning done, so I had to look for inspiration to Sarah Haskins, as is my wont:



Oh, Sarah. Why are you not on the Daily Show instead of Kristen Schaal?

RIP Paul Newman

He'll be remembered for so much, from his acting to his racing enthusiasm to his terrific marriage to his activism to his food products. And oh, those magnificent piercing blue eyes...

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This one's been making the rounds at my office; my boss received it (as a PowerPoint!) about three days before I saw it on BoingBoing. It's the Sub-Prime Primer! Somehow I can't see McCain having the patience to read the whole thing, even in stick-figure comic strip format... Oh, and speaking of stick-figure comic strips, I laughed at loud at tonight's XKCD:



Never read YouTube comments, but apparently they're notorious for their lack of coherence...

Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)

Welcome, folks, to the first Pen-Elayne Kitty Cavalcade where, without further ado, we present way too many pictures I've taken of Datsa and Amy this past week!










































Thank you, we hope you've enjoyed Kitty Cavalcade! It's nice to have my camera nearly empty again.

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Okay, so Robin did pretty well on the Color IQ. Now let's see him create his own comic strip (via Gerard)! Oh, yeah, that's right, he's busy doing the entire art chores, including covers, on a for-really comic book...

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Long, long day at work, but I did want to link to my latest ComicMix column and to Peter David's post reminding people to pre-order Sir Apropos of Nothing. (Happy belated birthday, Peter!) Robin's currently coloring issue #2, having finished pencils and inks on it, so in keeping with that I challenge him to this color IQ test (via Laura). I'm not even going to attempt it...

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Exhausted but at least my ComicMix column is done (did it yesterday, in fact, when I was a teensy bit more awake). Here's a teaser, via Patrick: Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet? To find out more, tune in tomorrow!

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Via Wil Wheaton, it's the Best Nigerian Email Scam Parody Ever. Well, at least the timeliest.

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You say you just can't get enough Star Wars Lego adventures? Never fear, Milo Price Studios is here to help. Via Graeme McMillan on io9.

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This one's for Robin. We're finally caught up with our Daily Show and Colbert watching, and it was rather interesting watching Jon Stewart interview Tony Blair on Thursday. I do wish they'd kept this bit in...



Never pegged Oliver to be a Liverpool booster...

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Ah, what a gorgeous day! I finally got some rest this morning, and am currently watching the last day game at the "old" Yankee Stadium, with the kitties in the living room because, hey, that's where the sun's at!



And there's an early autumn chill in the air, and I'm doing nothin' but goofin' off in the house today. This is the kind of day that makes me smile.

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Arrrgh, mateys, it's International Talk Like A West Country Person Pirate Day, but I'm afraid I just don't have the time. On the other hand, there are things for which I make time, like (via Bora) the John Cleese podcasts. The connection? I'm pretty sure Cleese has talked like a pirate upon occasion, I seem to remember him doing it way back in his Python days if not earlier...

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Yes, I've seen McCain, The Mavericking Maverick. Quite brilliant.

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My ComicMix column is up, all about how fashion-backward I am, just in time for my supervisor and another co-worker to promise to take me accessory-shopping. Uh-oh! Speaking of timing, a couple weeks ago I made a Sarah Palin ref when talking about stupid baby names; now there's actually a Sarah Palin Baby Name generator (via Gerard, natch). Apparently mine would be Hen Waffle...

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Hoorah, the Daily Show and Colbert are back! Now if only I had the time to watch them. Ah well, there's always The You Tube, featuring lovely stuff like John Oliver's Literature Rodeo (via Matt Tobey at the Comedy Central blog):



I'm so tired I can't even remember if I ran this already...

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Okay, not "silly" so much as "cool," but I wanted to note that I've been wanting local currency to appear around our parts since forever 'cause I like the idea, but the nearest one we have is in Ithaca at least four hours north of here. Well, now we'll be able to trade in local currency the next time we visit Robin's Dad, as the Lewes Pound made its debut last week. Of interest to Americans is that the note features Thomas Paine. Of interest to me is that the local brewery, Harveys, has brought out a special ale in celebration. Hope Rob's Dad can get us some local quid before they're sold out.

Get Well Soon, Teresa!

Patrick Nielsen Hayden reports that Teresa has suffered a heart attack. She's fine now, recovering at Brooklyn's Lutheran Medical Center and being, as Patrick describes, "mostly bored." Please send her lots of hugs and best wishes (as we do from the Riggs Residence)!

"Don't Turn Your Back, Don't Look Away..."

Remember that Doctor Who episode "Blink" that everyone talks about so much? Here it is as performed by a kitty:



Come on, if you've seen that episode you can't tell me you're not creeped out just a little, even whilst chuckling. Via Cute Overload.

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Via Mom in email, I assume everyone's heard of David Bader's 1999 book Haikus for Jews by now. You can click here to get some excerpts. Some of my favorites:

On Passover we
opened the door for Elijah.
Now our dog is gone.

Quietly murmured
at Saturday services,
"Yanks 5, Red Sox 3"

Five thousand years a
wandering people – then we
found the cabanas.

And if you can't get / enough, click here to see The / Torah in Haiku.

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Went into the office for a half day to help my boss straighten out some things without the usual running interruptions, then took in the Sixth Avenue street fair (note to self: arepa = $5, chicken kebab = $4, roasted corn on the cob = $3, Thai iced tea = $2, Saturday lunch = completely reimbursable so I'm told) which was pretty disappointing overall. It's like the same companies rent out 5-6 spaces each along the route and franchise their wares. Lots of t-shirt stands, various food stands, belts seem to be in, yadda yadda, and they were all Exactly The Same. Bought a pair of mandatory earrings (yes, a cheap earring purchase is mandatory at just about every street fest I attend) and got to walk pretty much the length of the thing down to 42nd Street, where I caught the subway home. Icky and humid. Showered now, going back to bed to read comics. Robin makes 'em, and I read 'em; the secret to a happy marriage, comic-geek style! Speaking of geeks, via Eva Whitley who's changed her blog name to something about which I'm afraid to ask, you know you really want to add more cowbell to that favorite song of yours, don't you?

Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)

Datsa, stop jumping up on Robin's computer table.



Amy, stop working the cute.



Sun, stop rising in the east. Grass, stop being green. Republicans, stop lying...

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People always ask Robin to explain what he does for a living. Well, now it's easier because he's doing the entire art chores on a project (pencilling, inking and colouring), but when he was making a living primarily from inking it was a bit harder. Now my ComicMix colleagues Glenn Hauman and Andrew Pepoy present a brilliant video that explains it all:



Well, this is the Silly Site entry, after all...

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So I went on Firesign chat this evening to ask if anyone knew more details about the Nick Danger boxed set coming out later this month, and Merlyn said that was someone else's area of expertise but he did want to bring to our attention that someone out there is selling Ersatz (Brothers) Coffee. Just look for the can in the plain brown can!

What Might Have Been

Today many of us recall and solemnly commemorate the anniversary of the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and killed around 3000 Americans. I mourn a lot of things today. On a personal level, I mourn that my best friend Leah Adezio is no longer around to mark another birthday, and smile wryly at remembering how she hated it that her big day was forever marred by the tragedy. I mourn the way I witnessed New Yorkers with varying beliefs and ideologies putting all their differences aside to help one another, only to find that solidarity squandered by the cynical Republicans on whose watch the tragedy happened, who let it happen, and who were so hell-bent on appeasing the terrorists that they turned the US into a de facto police state. The moment I removed the American and British flags from our window in disgust at the warmongering and rights restrictions going on, that's when I knew the terrorists had won, and I mourn those lost freedoms that Bush, Giuliani and others practically handed them on a platter.



Mostly I mourn for what our country might have been under real leaders, who cared about government rather than despising it and using it as a means to the end of enriching themselves and their cronies. And I mourn how easily people continue to be swayed by the propaganda of these nasty pieces of work; I fear they may once again be actively contributing to their own downfall in 2008. My highest hope is that the forces of reason and compassion and love will win out this year after all, because I've seen it in action, seven years ago. I know we're capable of it. We just all need to remember.

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My latest ComicMix column is up, as is usual on Wednesday. Also as is usual on Wednesday, now that I'm employed again, I wanted to get comics but wound up working later than expected, then spent way too much time this evening fast-forwarding through two Olbermanns and one Maddow before giving up on the second Maddow and saving it for tomorrow, since neither show will air because of the candidates' joint appearance at the ServiceNation summit on 9/11 (or, as Olbermann's Special Comment tonight put it, "9/11™". Frankly, I'm more than a little skeptical of an "org" that contains "inc" in the domain name before the dot, but it's as Robin has often observed, and considering Obama's timid centrism has come out front and center of late I'm forced to agree -- these guys have more in common with each other than they ever will with the vast majority of the American voters they claim to represent, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they went out for a beer after it's all said and done.

Of course, part of me wishes the actual bipartisanship were in service to the country rather than themselves, which reminds me, I got a lovely email from Jeff Beard at Molecular TV thanking me for publicizing Split: A Divided America and adding that, for those not able to catch it on IFC, it's available from Molecular TV as a download ($2.99 for portable definition, file size 677 MB, MPG4 @ 480 x 272; $7.99 for DVD definition, file size 1.49 GB, MPG4 @ 656 x 368) or DVD ($14.99). Oh, and they've got a Twitter feed too, because I guess nothing says "divided America" like Twitter!

But seriously -- okay, but unseriously, via Mark Evanier, John Cleese explains why so many people find extremism more stimulating than moderation and rational discussion:



Didn't Tom Lehrer do a bit about this years ago? Oh yes, yes he did:



"...and everybody hates the Jews..." Ah, the old ones are sometimes the best.

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Sorry, the day got away from me again, and I need to spend the rest of my awake-time going through Previews so I can place my order at the comic shop tomorrow. I'm trying hard not to follow the Presidential race too closely or I'll go bonkers, but it's sometimes difficult to realize how many people have embraced the bad guys' hooked lines and stinkers. Then again, we've always had a fascination for mobsters, haven't we? Via Gerard, Generator Land bids you find out your mob name. Alas, looks like all the names are male. No Helena "The Huntress" Bertinelli? Bummer. Get on that, Generator Land guys!

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Perhaps the wrong Palin is in the race? Via Len Wein, wouldn't it be nice if it were Michael Palin running for President? Goodness knows he has experience in foreign lands! Alas, technically Sarah Palin is still more qualified, as the Constitution only says "over 35" and "American-born."

Blogiversary-around

Happy blogiversary to me! I started Pen-Elayne six years ago, for reasons which I outline in my first post. (By the way, that and all subsequent posts have been archived and are easily accessible from my left-hand sidebar, organized by month.)

A lot has happened to me in the past six years. I've seen the country continue its downward spiral that, for me, began with the one-two whammy of Ronald Reagan's election and John Lennon's assassination. And I've borne the deaths of my best friend from college, my best friend from my adult years, my mother-in-law and my father. But my husband and I have only grown closer; we moved to a beautiful, quiet apartment in a great neighborhood; and, after a hellish few years in a soul-sucking job followed by a very unnerving 6+ months of unemployment, I am gainfully employed with a company that treats me like I think all companies should treat their workers, back in the city I love, with no more sick feeling in the pit of my stomach at the prospect of going to work each weekday.

And there's change in the air -- even to the point where citizens are talking about how tired they are of feeling divided, and starting to yearn for common ground again, having felt it in that brief period seven years ago before the people in power cynically squandered and trashed that golden opportunity. Before I continue with a blogaround, I must recommend a fascinating documentary most of which Robin and I caught earlier today. It's called Split: A Divided America, and it's absolutely magnificent. It's the first political docu I've seen in quite awhile that doesn't stake out a POV, and that's because it's all about how we got to this point where staking out POVs and sticking to them come hell or high water has all but ruined our ability to talk to each other, arrive at understandings, and grow not only as citizens but as people. I can't say enough about this work, please see it if you get the chance. We have less than two months for its message to sink in.

So, what have I been reading and liking in the blogosphere lately?:

• The problem with the Republicans' red meat that they keep dangling is that the Democrats are way too carnivorous. Perhaps we should consider a bit of vegetarianism or at least hold off until we know the facts about whether the meat is irradiated or otherwise spoiled. HuffPo's Jackson Williams talks about how the "Palin's kid is really her grandkid" meme on which liberal bloggers so readily jumped has classic Karl Rove written all over it. This is why, if you're going to hit people, hit them on their documented activities and proven records, not on unsubstantiated rumor, no matter how true that rumor feels to you. We have to stop falling for truthiness politics, folks! (And that goes double for the Anne Kikenny post that's been reproed everywhere in the liberal blogosphere, most recently on HuffPo itself. Does this Kikenny person have any sort of paper trail herself? She certainly pops up at a suspiciously opportune moment!) Although I admit I liked Heidi MacDonald's "WHO WILL HOLD THE BABY?" post.

• Well, Jamie Lee, I don't think you're stupid, but I'm tired that you only seem to sell yogurt to women, especially since my husband eats Activia more than I do. On the other hand, Michael, there's a reason you're the right's bugaboo.

• My ex-husband thinks we might be in trouble because a lot more conservatives love Palin than were expected to. Just on the basis of overheard conversations at work, I'd have to agree.

• Speaking of my ex-husband, he'll be nostalgically saddened to learn that, as Val reminds us, today was *sigh* Astroland's last day. Speaking of which, Val's currently between jobs which sucks considering her talent level, and takes the opportunity to mourn the loss of the illusion of job security.

• The comics blogosphere is losing a great one, as Cheryl Lynn hangs things up after her constant Sisyphusian efforts. She's looking for someone to take over the Ormes Society that she founded.

• Meanwhile in real life, Laura's finally moved to her new abode, woo-hoo!

• IDW's editor in chief has some nice things to say about Robin's current assignment, Sir Apropos of Nothing, including showing a few pages from the first issue.

• Want to know more about how a recording session works? Get all wonky about it with Thomas Dolby, who's also crazy about eSession software.

• Corn refiners are trying to combat all the bad news people are finding out about HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) and its contributions to the ill health of our nation with some misleading propaganda. Hey, after all, it's just made from corn! Yeah, and aspartame is bananas and milk. Pull the other one.

• I really want to make cream cheese penguins for my next party.

• And I want to hook up this way cool energy ball now.

• Lastly for now, the Republicans have got to learn that they can't go around blaming "liberal Hollywood" for all that's wrong with the world then expect not to get called on it when they use "liberal" Hollywood's product as their background music. The Wilson sisters are the latest in an increasingly long line of pissed-off musicians.

I was going to do more, but for whatever reason I couldn't work up the creative energy this weekend. Eh, it happens. With any luck I'll resume tomorrow, to start off my seventh blogging year right!

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Happy sixth blogiversary to me! Longer post on the way. For now, I'm just rejoicing that Hurricane Hanna, as well as the hurricanes of the Democratic and Republican conventions, are now all behind us. But the wacky memories remain. Via Arthur Hlavaty, Mightygodking's decided to bring us Politics: The Gathering. One cannot help but wonder what MGK could accomplish with all his creative energy if only it were used for the forces of good...

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Well, tomorrow's the big day, Pen-Elayne's sixth blogiversary. And I still don't have anything. Don't even have a topic for my next ComicMix column. It's a good thing this sort of writing is mostly improvisation, innit? Anyway, it's been a blah kind of day with the remnants of Hanna barreling through our area (mostly rain and a few wind gusts), so I'll have to save up for tomorrow to let my freak flag fly (via Gerard)...

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Only two more days until my sixth blogiversary, and what do I give you? Beedogs (via Suzie at Echidne's place). Sorry about that.

Friday Cat Blogging (™ Kevin Drum)

It's never too early in the morning for Amy to be cute:



Off to work now! Er, me, not Amy...

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Before you play The Monty Game (am I the only one who thought Hall's first name was remarkably apt for this type of shell game?), you might want to read Mark Evanier's post about it.

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Via Bora, it's the satirical blog PalinDrome. Catch it while she's still the presumptive VP appointee!

Obligatory Canadian Comics Content

My latest ComicMix column is up, all about cougars and PUMAs. You can tell I've related it to comics by how few comments it's received so far. :) Also, Robin has been interviewed by Roger Ash at Westfield Comics. I was so pleased that IDW's got such a nice rollout for the first issue of Sir Apropos of Nothing; it got a full page ad in Previews! I think I'm going to frame it.

Milestone Notes

A very happy birthday to Robin's Dad, who at 85 is doubtless the oldest Pen-Elayne reader (at least that I know of)! Also a reminder, this coming Sunday will mark Pen-Elayne's sixth blogiversary. Any ideas on how to celebrate besides whining to Melissa to post a cake for me?

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Glad I did all that posting over the weekend, 'cause I'm tapped out today. Long day, made longer by the necessity of food shopping. The queues were so long you'd think they were giving the food away. Which, alas, they were not. While the blogosphere continues to do either John McCain's or Karl Rove's job regarding Sarah Palin, I direct you to a site where she must have gotten the inspiration for her children's monickers: the Celebrity Baby Name Generator (via Gerard).

New Shoes Blogaround, Part 3

I actually have nothing further to say about new shoes, other than my vague plans to pack up my old ones (along with a number of my tops which I can't wear to work any more as they're either too worn or not appropriate) and take 'em to the nearest clothing drop for someone else who needs them more than me. But that involves going through my closet, not part of my plans for the rest of the day. Today's for blog catch-up -- finally done! -- and probably comics reading, in prep for the 4-day work week ahead. It's so great not to have that dread feeling in the pit of my stomach any more when I hear the word "work." May everyone who labors someday feel such joy.

• If all has gone well, Gustav will not have done anywhere near the damage that Katrina and Rita did a few years ago. Thank goodness, because our current administration is just about as ill-equipped to deal with somelike like that today as it was in 2005. Paul Krugman notes:

FEMA’s degradation, from one of the government's most admired agencies to a laughingstock, wasn't an isolated event; it was the result of the G.O.P.'s underlying philosophy. Simply put, when the government is run by a political party committed to the belief that government is always the problem, never the solution, that belief tends to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Key priorities are neglected; key functions are privatized; and key people, the competent public servants who make government work, either leave or are driven out.

I don't think the Democrats can emphasize this enough. I just wish they would!

• See, here's the thing -- Republicans are so great at capturing media attention in part because their opposition is so accommodating. Take this supposedly subliminal shot from a McCain ad that skippy discusses. Now, I'm not saying it's impossible that the visual is deliberate, but are the Republicans really this competent at smearing, or is it just that they have no opposition? Time and again the Democrats squander opportunities to remind Americans just what the last eight years have meant, and they continue to be vague and nebulous and even coy. And liberal bloggers go searching for dirty tricks even where they don't necessarily exist, thus pretty much doing Karl Rove's work for him. No wonder he's considered such a "genius," with all the help he gets from the other side! You don't want these people to be in power? Stop empowering them.

• That said, I must admit some of the humor regarding the presumptive Republican VP nominee amuses me, like JC Christian's interpretation of Palin posing with a bunch of animal skin-clad cronies and RJ Eskow's brilliant retort to Republicans whining that she has foreign policy experience because Alaska is "so close" (um, like 4400 miles?) to Russia. On a more serious note, Alaskan davenoon at Lawyers, Guns and Money examines his governor. And isn't it Republicans who keep saying it's not the sex, it's the lying? If Palin has no personal qualms about premarital sex, and the way she's been proudly publicizing her daughter's (second?) pregnancy she doesn't seem to (although, then again, there's evidence to the contrary), then hypocrisy doesn't enter into it, but misrepresenting yourself as a child's mother when you're actually the grandmother does have legal implications. Aside from that, and the phrasing of the pregnancy as a "choice" coming from forced-pregnancy fanatics (remember yesterday's link to the Hullabaloo post about how they change the meanings of words?), my main reaction to something that doesn't really affect me at all is pretty similar to Kevin Hayden's: Mazel tov, kids. And please consider naming the baby something normal so he or she doesn't have to go through what you and your siblings must have endured.

• I would be remiss, while we're on the subject of forced-pregnancy fanatics, not to cite Amanda's very interesting analysis of why they seem to feel "today abortion, tomorrow feminism" is the way to go.

• Speaking of Palin, just a reminder that Shakespeare's Sister has started a Palin Misogyny Watch (they're up to #5 already) because, as they say, "We defend Sarah Palin against misogynist smears not because we endorse her or her politics, but because that's how feminism works." This newest Watch joins their Michelle Obama Racism/Sexism Watch (currently at Part 14), the Barack Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/Scary Black Dude Watch (up to Part 74 now!), and of course the Hillary Sexism Watch, which I'm willing to bet just won't go away after part 109. The best thing about these chronicles is that each of them references all those that came before it, to provide a very handy record of media critique during this important time in our democracy.

• Also at Shakesville, Melissa examines an "estrogen-fest" remark and I must say I'm in almost complete disagreement with her here. I've done at least two years of "Estrogen Month" posts when I do March round-ups touting female bloggers, and I consider stuff like that to be positive commentary, not mocking at all. I think this may be another case of looking for offense where none's intended (thus doing Karl's job for him again!). However, I completely concur with her grumbles about the Republicans cynically stealing the Democrats' thunder by rolling out their new product in August.

• Meanwhile, little things go unnoticed like the oil deal Iraq just signed with China (via Thers at Whiskey Fire).

• More praise for Rachel Maddow (via Creature at The Reaction) with this nice write-up in the Washington Post (hang on, isn't Howie Kurtz in the MSNBC company of players?) as well as from her patron Olbermann's own blog (via Foiled Goil at Big Brass Blog).

• A nice overview of (and rallying cry inspired by) the Democratic convention from Athenae at First Draft,

• Which secretive group is scarier, the Council for National Policy or the Blue Dog Democrats? Two sides of the same coin, really. Much like this remark passed along from a conservative blogger by a liberal blogger.

• Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars finds a good roundup of local Twin Cities cartoonists gearing up for RepubliCon. Also at C&L, Jon Perr gives us a handy chart showing what each of the two major Presidential candidates' tax cut proposals would really mean for different income levels, and John Amato reminds us that Joe Lieberman was for Obama before he was against him.

• Miriam at Feministing wants to know who your favorite female graphic novelists are. With any luck and/or discipline, this time next year I may be one of them. :)

• Jesse Taylor reviews Tropic Thunder.

• We don't usually feed fish to our cats, so you can't lay this one at our feet.

• Mark Kleiman has an interesting post about Exploitation, kashrut, and global warming.

• Dang, I'll miss you, Vastleft! Please keep emailing me!

• The season finale of No Reservations is this evening and, as it's a behind-the-scenes thing, Tony Bourdain takes the opportunity on his blog to get even wonkier. Pretty good reading, but then Tony usually is.

• Finally, I have no idea if you'll be able to see the Take Back Labor Day festival, but the lineup sounds pretty cool. And Dr. Sardonicus at Corrente has gathered some nice quotes about Labor Day from Abraham Lincoln.

I can has husband now? Enjoy the rest of your long weekend, all!

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White Rabbits (or, you know, rabbits of whatever color), and happy Labor Day to my fellow Americans! Did you know that everything "I" need to know "I" learned in corporate America? I have no idea who the "I" is, but then I've never thought of Labor Day as a corporate celebration; quite the opposite, in fact. My final Labor Day weekend blogaround is on its way!