Retool Slogan

* everyone is pointing to this nyt article and making all the obvious observations. i just liked the headline: "U.S. Officials Retool Slogan for Terror War". (atrios' take: The End of GWOT: Did we win? )

* john roberts is embarrassed about his Federalist Society membership. john bolton is proud of his membership.

* "The special prosecutor in the CIA leak probe has interviewed a wider range of administration officials than was previously known, part of an effort to determine whether anyone broke laws during a White House effort two years ago to discredit allegations that President Bush used faulty intelligence to justify the Iraq war, according to several officials familiar with the case... Fitzgerald has asked not only about how CIA operative Valerie Plame's name was leaked but also how the administration went about shifting responsibility from the White House to the CIA for having included 16 words" (link )

* "Harper's Magazine has devoted its August cover story to summarizing and explicating the Conyers report and to asking why it wasn't considered more newsworthy by the national media. Even though eight months have passed since the election, the material compiled here seems to us fresh and scandalous in large part because it has gone almost entirely unreported in the press." (link)
theres also audio of their forum at that link. i havent heard it yet.

* santorum was son the daily show. people are grumpy at jons for treading so softly. santorum said that gays with kids are bad cos the detroy the country. on that basis, the US should promote the homosexualist lifestyl in iran and nthkorea and other places.

* my teeve is advertising a reality-tv show called "living with the amish" or some such. hysterical.