Midday Open Thread

Daily Kos Staff

Friday March 02, 2007 · 12:44 PM PST

2007/03/02 · 12:44

The Carpetbagger reports on the rightosphere: On the one hand, they don't believe global warming is caused by humans. On the other hand, most of them realize that a border wall between the US and Mexico will never be completed. So they're partially reality-based.

The Nation reviews the recent history of progressive film and television in Remembering 'Norma Rae'.

The Daily Mail shows how the world looks proportioned according to HIV rates, alcohol consumption, military spending, housing prices, and other measures.

Ava's own diary points us to a Mother Jones article titled Are You There, George? It's Me, Ava.

A decade earlier, a teenage girl out of the local political mainstream might have held her tongue until she could leavelabama. But these days the Internet provides a means out—a community of like-minded people, albeit a virtual one. Ava's website averages 30,000 hits a day and is recommended by Michael Moore's. It remains to be seen, however, whether such virtual, viral efforts can serve as a replacement, or even a stimulus, for face-to-face networks such as church groups or labor unions. Ava's rally/birthday party was a small test of what Internet activism can look like on the ground.

The wingnuts are meeting in D.C., and they're on a "mission from God" yet again. Josh is actually watching and keeping tabs, in case you are dying to know what they're doing. (mcjoan)

Is McCain's heart really in it? Reading Craig Crawford who notes three major flubs by the candidate in recent days, you have to wonder. (mcjoan)

Henry Waxman has issued his first subpoena, to Major General George W. Weightman, former Commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, "regarding the privatization of support services at Walter Reed and its impact on the conditions at Walter Reed." (mcjoan)

Meanwhile in Iraq, all hell breaking loose continues, with 14 Iraqi abducted police found dead, 18 Interior Ministry employees seized, and two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter killed. (mcjoan)