What's Really Important

(Thanks to Brian Bassett)

Greatness

Les Paul, R.I.P.

Thanks for Clearing That Up

(Thanks Nick Anderson)

Read This

Paul Waldman is good in The American Prospect today.

Your Modern GOP

Lloyd Doggett's meeting on Obamacare in south Austin, TX, 1 Aug 2009

Rock and Roll Will Never Die

Village People Populism

Frank Rich is good today.

"What provokes their angry and nonsensical cries of racism is sheer desperation: an entire country is changing faster than these white guys bargained for. We’ve been reminded repeatedly during Gatesgate that Cambridge’s mayor is a black lesbian. But a more representative window into the country’s transition might be that Dallas County, Tex., elected a Latina lesbian sheriff in 2004 (and re-elected her last year) and that the three serious candidates for mayor of Houston this fall include a black man and a white lesbian."