SFC Paul Smith: Medal of Honor The St Petersburg Times has an excellent interactive section in tribute to Medal of Honor winner Sgt. Paul Smith.

Paul Newman For Senate In 2006 According to Atrios, Newman is gunning for Joe Lieberman's seat. I say good. I am not a Lieberman fan. more inside

The Bunker Via Tiny Little Dots: what everyone needs in their backyard. Be the envy of all your neighbors by having the first portable bunker on the block.

Republican Girls Are Easy It was posted by Wonkette. So it must be true.

Doing the Boomer more inside

Bill O'Reilly & His Tales of Combat Bill O'Reilly attempted to mislead his audience about how he has seen combat. A caller made O'Reilly admit that he has never been in the miltary. James Poling is offering a reward to anyone that can find a reported incident of O'Reilly was actually in a firefight. Here is the audio of Reilly on his radio show.

Clarence Thomas: God Before Constitution Via Sam Heldman According to The Birmingham News:

Many stood and applauded former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore as he walked to the stage to administer the oath to Parker. Moore's action was ceremonial, since Parker took his formal oath of office Thursday before U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in Washington. Parker said Thomas told him a judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or to the Constitution.

Does Thomas really feel that a Justice should put God over the Constitution or was Parker blowing smoke? Thomas will likely more inside

Monkey Gone To Heaven If man is 5 If man is 5 If man is 5 Then the devil is 6 Then the devil is 6 Then the devil is 6 Then the devil is 6 And if the devil is six Then god is 7 Then god is 7 Then god is 7 The video to this Pixies classic is in quicktime.

Bush Monkey Picture Too good not to post. more inside

Soldiers Back From Iraq With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder More more inside

Pinky Promise Debra Lafave phone call tape to young young 14 year-old stud. (asx file) Let the snark begin.

Guided By Voices Live At Coney Island 2001 This an excellent video bootleg (which GBV linked to their site) of Guided By Voices at the Siren Festival in 2001. The videos are MPEGs and linked to the webpage I linked. more inside

Leonard Nimoy Music Video The video is in quicktime.

I Have Been Cited In A Case Against John Ashcroft More more inside

Photoshopping the Debate Those zany members of Fark had some fun with photoshop images of the debate between George W. Bush (who we can all agree easily won the debate) and John (French looking guy) Kerry.

Bob Dylan Pimps His New autobiography

Double Package Post Time again for a MonkeyFilter Double Package Post. more inside

Bush's Hometown Paper Endorses John Kerry The comments about social security are on the mark. Why would any president want to dismantle social security at a time when it is helping pay off the deficit during a war. This is fucking insane. I smell a rat.

Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail Via Bark Bark Wolf Wolf: Excellent (and long) New York Times magazine article on the lefty political bloggers at the conventions. It's also interesting that Josh Marshall and Ana Marie Cox went out of their way to not hangout with other bloggers. Also, is it me or does Cox intentionally strike a seductive pose when there's a camera near. more inside

Pentagon blocks site for voters outside U.S. more inside