Lee Salisbury published a piece in the Axis of Logic July 13th called Monkeys are preferable as ancestors over the bible?s God anytime!

In this very cogent and stark comparison between monkeys and God, Salisbury gets to the heart of the matter using the very tools used to "prove" Christianity as the more moral path than evolution: the Bible.

Salon's Sidney Blumenthal has written THE piece on the Plame affair. The article is available here (daypass required -- well worth it).

Got this from the AP .

It seems the insurgents in Iraq are burning money, now. More after the cut.

Me and my little family are heading out west week after next, going to live in an "undisclosed location" far, far away from our northeastern digs.

What a pain in the dick this is. We have no money, I've had to stop taking on big jobs in my programming company so that I can move us, and we've just barely managed to scrape enough together to maybe pay our deposit on the new place.

This is a fucking nightmare. I'm usually more positive in my personal life, but I have to admit to having a real sense of frustration over this. We've been planning this move for two months, but things never go as planned, as we all know.

Now I'm stressing, and I know it will all work out, but I can't see how. To top it off I am having professional problems, but those will work themselves out after the move.

This sucks.

Woe is me, woe is me. ;)

~A!

See, I know I'm the main blogger at this site and all, but I thought it would be nice to have a place to just kick back and have a good time, just shoot the shit however I feel like.

This is that place for me, my own personal diary on my own... personal... um... web diary.

Yeah. Ok, I'm a dork. That's ok, I like me like this. I ain't much, baby, but I'm all I got.

~A!

Via Riverbend, Iraqi blogger (and, therefore, free speech activist) Khalid Jarrar has been abducted by the Mukhabarat, Iraq's intelligence service. The name has an understandably negative connotation, because it served as Saddam's secret police, but Khalid's brother Raed explains why it beats the alternatives.

The Brad Blog has just reported that Congressman John Conyers and Senator Barney Frank sent a letter to the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service to clarify whether or not Karl Rove qualifies as a civil officer who may be impeached.

From the best Gay News Source on the planet, PageOneQ, we learn that Senator Rick Santorum's Director of Communications, Robert Traynham, is gay.

How does a gay man work for the most anti-gay Senator in the United States, a staunch opponent of gay rights issues and a strong supporter of the Federal Marriage Amendment, which seeks to define marriage as only between a man and a woman?

In Mr. Traynham's own words:

"Senator Santorum is a man of principle, he is a man who sticks up for what he believes in, I strongly do support Senator Santorum."

Brad Friedman of The Brad Blog is at it again, pulling up rocks and watching Republicans scurry out from underneath.

In an article this afternoon, Brad takes Rush to task for his comments that a "left wing conspiracy", masterminded by the DNC and Wilson, is responsible for the whole Plame affair:

The "theory" that Rush has been pummelling his Ditto Heads with all day: Joe Wilson has been a part of a double super secret background conspiracy with the DNC since day one, well before he was sent by the CIA to Niger.

Yes, that's right. According to Rush, the entire plan to send George W. Bush's own father's Man in Iraq -- a decades-long expert in African and Middle-Eastern affairs to Niger -- was all just a ploy by Democrats "to undermine the War in Iraq and the Bush Presidency," as Rush repeatedly described it.

We suppose then, that Bush 41's letter sent to Wilson saying that he concurred with much of the article that Wilson wrote prior to the war in the San Jose Mercury News was also part of that conspiracy.

Why is Dubya's own father trying to destroy Dubya's own "Presidency", dammit?!

From the Raw Story:

Two of the Democrats most often mentioned as contenders for the White House in 2008 are currently paying staff to work for local candidates in New Hampshire, home of the nation?s first presidential primary, the paid-restricted Roll Call reports Thursday. Excerpts follow -- Kerry and Edwards spokespersons say it doesn't necessarily indicate a presidential bid, though experts say the move is a "fairly big step."

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