Brunch in Blogtopia

(and yes, Skippy coined the phrase, Blogtopia!)

The beautiful weather (I actually fired up the grill last night and made this really nice dinner I didn't eat but the dog love-love-loved followed by home made vanilla ice cream - I don't like ice cream but my dinner company does and scarfed it down again when the homemade ice cream made another appearance at brunch atop Belgian waffles) is making me want to do something else than sit on the computer.

So, I'm going to go play human being in sunshine while I leave you with some tasty morsels to peruse.

First, now that the Rabid Wrongies want Tom DeLay to go down, he's going down faster than a hooker in need of a heroin fix and even Newsweek spills the story of just some of Mr. DeLay's Corruption Extravanganza. Elsewhere in Newsweek, Tracy McNicholl brings us this Q&A with a GI who explains why he cannot go to Iraq. Finally, there's also this piece in Newsweek indicating the corruption is like way out of control in Iraq and we're just tossing money down blind rabbit holes now.

The Carpet Bagger Report has joined my cry of dismay in asking, "There's a Pentagon Channel?" On another point of agreement, he also wonders how in the heck JC Watts, the former slavishly GOP Congressman from OK, managed to get anywhere with so few abilities. The sad truth is that the GOP uses people of color with mad abandon, giving the statistically few who agree with the likes of Armstrong Williams and such the microphone whenever they can to make it appear that African Americans heart Bush and his policies.

Majikthise offers us some good points on the whole discussion of "framing" and whether we need "nurturant parents" as a society. Go read. I thought it offers some important perspective.

Want to know more about the Schiavo Memo Fiasco? Go to Media Matters where they offer a timeline. And throughout blogtopia, you can find pretty convincing evidence that the so-called memo writing Martinez staffer has deep ties to Tom DeLay and a lot of other skank and that Martinez has one hell of a long history of blaming staff for his antics. Thanks to Skippy for the link and while we're at it, stop and see Skippy's posted picture from the Iraq protests against Bush and American occupation yesterday.

If you haven't visited before, check out Trish Wilson, another strong voice who manages to blog even though she doesn't have a prostate.

A letter posted at First-Draft (and thanks to Discourse for the link) written by a veteran who attended an Ann Coulter uh.. speech gives us an illuminating look at Ann's "support for the troops".

Digby offers some insight into the Jeff Gannon-National Press Club fiasco panel the other day, including:

Gannon has quite the schtick going for him. I don't know if it's a natural gift or if he has had help, but he handled it all quite deftly, I thought. He makes absolutely no sense, wanders off into unrelated subjects, claims victimhood at every turn, avoids questions like a pro and appears to me to be incredibly stupid, arrogant and deluded all at the same time. A clown that nobody in their right mind could take seriously. In others words, meet the next GOP nominee for President of the United States.

I spent years right on this old blog screeching about George W. Bush being just as I described, assuming that any sentient person could see that he makes no sense, that he speaks in riddles that he is coached (badly) and that he has absolutely no idea that he is an idiot. It took me a long time realize that that is exactly what a lot of people like about him. He doesn't need to make sense as long as he claims to represent the "real" people who are predisposed to support him against the pointy headed know-it-alls who lord over them. I have little doubt that they think Gannon really kicked ass.

Well, this is enough to get you started, but why not share some of your favorite or most thought-provoking links around Blogtopia ::placing another dime in Skippy's royalty jar:: here in Comments?

Now... sunshine, here I come!