Here's a link to it for now.

I'm going to see a film called The End of Suburbia. More on both when I return.

And if you're looking for lefty agit-prop about Bush's inauguration, go ...   more »

Saw this on the BBC website. Apparently U.S. conservative groups are turning their publicity guns on ... Spongebob Squarepants!

Spongebob is involved in a pro-gay propaganda project aimed at children! -- the forces of pro-intolerance say.

This is a wee bit o' cross promotion by the Toronto Star: It owns Harlequin Enterprises, who released a "Romance Report on guilty pleasures, whims, desires and indulgences."

That ownership stake isn't disclosed in the story. With that sin of omission documented, here's your blog junk food for today:

Washington Post columnist Steve Pearlstein notes that while the Red States are supposed to be self-reliance and all that good conservative hooey, they are actually get much more back in government funds than they pay ...   more »

I'm always heartened when I read health stories like this -- and the news may be even better for my gender!

An excerpt from the Washington Post:

Our American cousins: They're worried about the economy and Iraq (good instincts!), yet they're relatively optimistic about the next four years with Dubya at the helm, says this NYT/CBS News poll (I found some other polls too).

An excerpt:

An NYT article on a British filmmaker who's making a sequel to an earlier pro-peace film of his in order to promote Sept. 21 as a global day to put the guns down and chill.

I want this guy's travel budget! :) NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman decides to take in Dubya's inauguration from Paris -- the birthplace of freedom fries.

And what he finds is that Europe is the world's biggest Blue State. But he also claims Iran is the biggest red one.