Majikthise was in Austin for DeLay's
perp walk and took photos. Notice how DeLay keeps that smile on his face without a pause. Actually, quite impressive work on their part. He may have looked like an idiot, but he wasn't going to let the media catch him with that "perp walk frown".
DeLay's attorney lies, and the press reports it as fact. All part of the DeLay machine's effort to discredit the judiciary. At this point, the GOP has no greater enemy than an effective, impartial, independent judiciary.
I'm reading J.D. Lasica's Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation, and I'm blown away. Highly recommended if you're interested in the way that citizen media is butting heads with increasingly draconian intellectual property laws. Read excerpts from the book here.
The Hotline blog has the fundraising numbers of the 2008 potential contenders with federal committees.
Daily Kos is now pushing over 1,200 pageviews a minute, well over a million a day. That such traffic numbes are "normal" for the site is ridiculous.
This is an open thread.
Update: The CommonCensus map is tracking cultural boundaries and sports allegiance boundaries in the U.S. (Via Kottke)