Midday open thread

• CT-Sen: Spazeboy has video of local news coverage of the debate. Looking great for Lamont. Also, play the "Bush or Lieberman" quote quiz. These are quotes from either the debate, or from Bush's appearance on Larry King. I watched the debate, and I still got two wrong out of the eight. Meanwhile, Gilliard smacks down the LA Times for thinking Lamont supporters are trying to "purge" the Democratic Party. And DemFromCT, who is from Connecticut and lives there, has a debate post-mortem.

• Ratings of OLN's coverage of the tour is way down in this post-Armstrong era. Too bad, since there are now four Americans who could win the race, and Armstrong's absence has given us a more exciting, wide-open race.

• Relevant SB Nation sports sites right now -- Podium Cafe for cycling, and Global Futbol for World Cup soccer. The network is growing nicely -- you can see if we have built out a site for your favorite team at SBNation.com.

• Glenn Greenwald writes about Glenn Reynold's lost libertarianism.

• Thank god Bush is solving global warming. Of course, how can you solve something you claim doesn't exist...

• Lieberman thinks things are going swimmingly well in Iraq. Digby:

  Except for all the dead bodies, things are going really well.

• Meteor Blades brings us yet another sad tale of rendition and torture.

• Iraq still doesn't have electricity, no matter how much Bush might brag to the contrary.

• Oil hit another record high today. $75.78.