Good blogging
Spinsanity has two good pieces - one on debunking some of Al Franken's more inflammatory rhetoric disguised as humour (while acknowledging how well Franken dismantles Ann Coulter's Slander and Sean Hannity's Let Freedom Ring) and the other on GWB's misrepresentation of the effect of his tax cuts on both the deficit and on the economy.

I love the tone and approach. Eminently reasonable, logical, clear, well-argued prose with little or no trace of ideological bias. James Madison would be proud of these guys.

Nema, at Iranian Truth, meditates on the questions she gets about what it means to be Iranian and asks “How do you answer a question you spend your life answering?”. I think she's doing a wonderful job in the series of posts that follow.

101-365, on the delay of the recall: “...at least Davis now knows who that chubby Mexican guy down the hall is”. And scroll down and check out the Full Barley Moon and Mars with the Moon Behind a Tree.

My friend T., in his own inimitable style, has a series of posts on mortality and the afterlife. In between, he's discovered flashmobs, the new baby boom, and how Chinatown one-ups McDonalds.. He also says that because he's drinking less, he's changed the title of his blog back to Crazy, Drunk, and Unemployed. What's up with that, T?