1. Wake Up — Arcade Fire
2. Simple — k d lang
3. Amazing — George Michael
4. Useless Desires — Patty Griffin
5. Irma — The Magnetic Fields
6. I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You — Colin Hay
7. The Absence of God – Rilo Kiley
8. Somewhere Only We Know — Keane
9. The Book of Love — Peter Gabriel
10. That's Me Trying — William Shatner & Ben Folds
"The liberal blogosphere was aflame today with new accusations that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election. Suspicions about Sen. Obama's true motives have been building over the past few weeks, but not until today have the bloggers called him out for betraying the Democratic Party's losing tradition.
"Barack Obama seems to be making a very calculated attempt to win over 270 electoral votes," wrote liberal blogger Carol Foyler at LibDemWatch.com, a blog read by a half-dozen other liberal bloggers. "He must be stopped." But those comments were not nearly as strident as those of Tracy Klugian, whose blog LoseOn.org has backed unsuccessful Democratic candidates since 2000. "Increasingly, Barack Obama's message is becoming more accessible, appealing, and yes, potentially successful," he wrote. "Any Democrat who voted for Dukakis, Mondale or Kerry should regard this as a betrayal."
Liberal bloggers said that they would be watching Sen. Obama's vice-presidential selection process "very closely" for signs that he is plotting to win the election."Barack Obama still has a chance to pick someone disastrous as a sign that he wants to lose this thing," Ms. Foyler wrote. "If not, he should brace himself for some really mean blog posts." — Andy Borowitz, The Huffington Post
What's with all the celebrities threatening to move to Canada? First, Susan Sarandon announced she will leave the country if McCain wins ("Maybe Canada, I don't know. We're at an abyss"). Now Stephen Baldwin has told Fox News that he will move to Canada if Barack Obama wins. That's a devilishly tempting choice, although voters should be reminded what happened in 2000: Alec Baldwin, Barbara Streisand, Martin Sheen, and Tim Robbins all threatened to leave the US if Bush won, but none of them actually did. I don't get it. Its not like celebrities aren't a visible breed. If I threatened to move to Canada and failed to follow through on it, only a handful of people would notice. But these guys have movies to promote, concerts to deliver, interviews to give, TV appearances to make..... Do they think we won't, you know, notice? 
In the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniya, reports Christopher Hitchens, once "a howling wilderness of wrecked towns and gassed, cleansed villages", the American University of Iraq has just opened its doors, and is appealing for people to donate books. According to Thomas Cushman, a professor of sociology at Wellesley College:What I did was ask colleagues to donate books, which they did in good numbers. We sent thirty cartons of first-rate books, especially on global affairs, history and literature and they are housed in the new library … The university is especially in need of technical books, social science books, software even … Nathan Musselman, the Prefect of the University who is teaching a class, wrote to me thrilled to tell me that the students were now writing their term papers in English and using many of these books as their main sources for research. He is greatly desirous of receiving more, now that the initial library is set up.… So the idea is to get people to donate in a more micro way; to send one or two new, current and important books (perhaps they have review copies, extra copies, etc) to the new library of the University. All of these small polyps could yield a substantial coral reef of knowledge for the new generation of students there.
Books should be sent to:—
Nathan Musselman
The American University of Iraq—Sulaimani
Building No. 7, Street 10
Quarter 410
Ablakh Area
Sulaimani, Iraq
(+964) (0)770-461-5099
It's important to include the number at the end.
"While serious liberal news organizations such as the New York Times helped disseminate the White House’s specious rationale for war, The Onion’s lampoons turned out to be far more accurate. The Bush gang, the paper said, was hell-bent on invading Iraq, and it would deploy any means necessary in order to do so. Throughout the fall campaign, The Onion continued to see right through Bush’s bluster..... When the war finally began in March 2003, the paper continued to mock both the Bush administration’s theatrics and its claims to an easy victory... Amid the chaotic aftermath of the invasion, many media observers, as well as Democratic Party officials, began to turn against the Bush administration, attacking its incompetent handling of the occupation. The Onion, however, continued its relentless assault on both the design and the execution of the war."
From Theodore Hamm’s The New Blue Media, which views the last few years as seen through Onion headlines:—
"Well, you know, it depends. Sometimes we write them on old pianos, anything that's lying around." "Normally we sit down and try and bash one out. But then again, there's no formula, because he can come up with one completely finished. We still say we both wrote it, though."
— Lennon and McCartney, in a recently unearthed interview for Scottish television from 1964, back when Paul was happy to play wife.
"The government suggests that several of the assertions in the intelligence documents are reliable because they are made in at least three different documents. We are not persuaded. Lewis Carroll notwithstanding, the fact that the government has 'said it thrice' does not make an allegation true. See LEWIS CARROLL, THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK 3 (1876) ('I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.')"— The ruling of a panel of federal Judges in the first legal review of the government's evidence against a Gitmo detainee, Huzaifa Parhat, a fruit peddler who fled his home in the People’s Republic of China in opposition to the policies of the Chinese government. A few years ago, he wrote his wife, giving her permission to remarry.
