Moue Magazine

Over at Balloon Juice (which has one of the funnier comments sections in BlogTopia — and yes, Skippy coined that phrase), DougJ gives us a healthy sampling of the epic fail that is Republicans trying to use technology.

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.

Catching up on some reading, I noticed Skippy ruminating about the McCain camp’s unbridled/unhinged optimism heading into Tuesday. He goes on to quote John Dickerson over at Slate, dutifully reporting the uptick of that thing called, um, Hope on the Straight Talk Uncomfortable, Dangerous Local Express:
mcinturff released a memo yesterday that outlined his case for [...]

We’re all gearing up to liveblog what will probably be a very interesting Vice Presidential debate. Assuming that Biden manages to not say anything overtly sexist, he’s going to have little trouble seeming more capable than Sarah Palin. My seven year old brother seems more capable than Sarah Palin.ooo
TPM has rounded up some clips to [...]

No Juneteenth for Palin: Electronic Village has a letter from Gwendolyn Alexander, President of the African American Historical Society of Alaska, that explains Sarah Palin’s lack of involvement with the African American community in Alaska. Palin was the first Alaskan governor to not participate- either passively or actively- in the Juneteenth celebrations in her state.
CA’s [...]