The GOP had to choose their new chair this past Friday. After looking at the candidates, the way the election was run, and who emerged as the winner, I’m feeling better and better about the Democrats’ political future.

I have recently become obsessed with Cold War Kids, a band from Calilfornia that’s been around for a while and had occasional radio play. I’ve been trying to describe their sound to people, and I keep saying that they’re like the White Stripes, kinda, at least musically-the songs are rhythm, driven, without a strong melody, and often with discordant notes that mash with the dysfunctional, discordant world painted by the lyrics.

A few heroic individuals in Austin, TX decided to test their cities’ zombie notification system by putting up a warning message on various road signs.

On Thursday, President Obama signed his first bill into law: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.  I’m actually incredibly happy about this bill, which only makes sense and ensures that the spirit of the Equal Pay Act is upheld.  Rather than a person only having 6 months to bring a lawsuit after the pay discrimination decision is made-whether or not a person is aware of the pay discrepancy-the statute of limitations begins after the last check is issued.  And after an election where there was no short amount of sexism, …

It is that time of year again, when a group of liberal bloggers (led by Skippy, Jon Swift and Blue Gal) open up their blogrolls to any who ask. The tradition stems back three years to a day when some high traffic bloggers decided they’d host a day of blogroll bloodshed and strip their list o’ links of what they considered filler. Skippy and Jon were good enough to reappropriate the title so that it now stands for bloggy solidarity.

B.A.D. is taking place from today until Tuesday. If you would like to be added to our blogroll, simply leave a comment in this post and it will be done. We appreciate a link in return but it isn’t mandatory.