Palin’s Homeland: Dave Noon of Lawyers, Guns and Money (an Alaskan himself) describes the unique political climate in that state regarding their views towards the rest of the United States.

Meth Heads: Do you remember the three white-supremacist meth heads that were arrested while plotting an Obama assassination during the Democratic National Convention? Dave Neiwert of Orcinus has a followup to that story in which the FBI wanted to charge the men for the assasination attempt but were prevented from doing so by US attorney Troy Eid- a Karl Rove operative who nearly didn’t get his job because of “improper lobbying”. 

Arachnophobia: Skippy (his honorable Bush Kangaroo) has an image and description of the 50ft spider that is currently roaming around Liverpool. There’s an “you’ve already had enormous Beatles” joke built in. 

LaVena Johnson’s Parent Interviewed Tonight: John and Linda Johnson, the parents of the young female soldier whose murder is being covered up by the military, will be on the Jim Bohannon Show tonight at 11 pm. You’ll be able to find a podcast here. H/T to Electronic Village and Phillip Barron. 

Ike Meets GITMO: This hurricane season isn’t being particularly kind to Haiti and Cuba. Hurricane Ike was approaching Cuba late yesterday as a Category 3 storm with winds of 120 miles per hour. Hurricane warnings (which basically mean “you should duck now”) were listed for several regions, including Guantanamo. As Monkeyfister says, what kind of recourse could be taken by family members if their GITMO inmate loved one is killed in the storm? 

“It’s all fun and games until someone’s universe gets blow’d the fuck up”: Cangrejero provides the most geek-tastic rap video in history: