Zoe’s bedtime is 8:00 pm. That doesn’t mean she’s sleeping in there, however. Tonight’s non-sleep activity: Left-Coast Liberal Artwork. Beth found this on her pillow as she went to turn in tonight.

We’re so proud.

Improv Everywhere stages a U2 roof-top concert in New York.

Two celeb-type observations:

1. Jennifer Lopez vs Ben Affleck in Gigli
• When Jennifer Lopez is the better actor, you’ve got problems.
2. Newly anorexic Lindsay Lohan vs perpetually anorexic Paris Hilton in paparazzi photos
• When Paris is the fat one, you’ve got serious problems.

Comments on two movie previews I’ve seen recently:

I’ve never understood the whole “Angelina Jolie is so hot” thing. Frankly, I’ve always found her to be a little freaky and think she builds every performance around her poor abused lips. But after seeing a preview for Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I think I get it. She looks, well, hot in it. And the movie looks good too. Crap-bad, but fun-good.

And Angelina’s ex, Billy Bob Thornton, is in the new remake of The Bad News Bears. I can’t make a call on how the movie will be, but Billy Bob is perfect as Buttermaker. I can’t wait to see this one.

Well, since the MSM won’t cover it, I’ll just join the BlogStream Media in covering it here in the blogosphere, and maybe eventually the anti-Bush, unfair, unbalanced, left-leaning, liberal, commie pinko MainStream Media will catch up.

Let’s talk about the Downing Street Memo, a highly classified British memo that indicates that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.

The Downing Street “Memo” is actually a document containing meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister’s meeting on July 23, 2002 — a full eight
months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003. The Times of London printed the text of this document on Sunday, May 1, 2005, but to date US media coverage has been limited. This site is intended to act as a resource for anyone who wants to understand the facts revealed in this document.

The contents of the memo are shocking. The minutes detail how our government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was “fixed” to sell the case for war to the American public; and how the Bush Administration’s public assurances of “war as a last resort” were at odds with their privately stated intentions.

Read the rest of it at The Downing Street Memo.

Let’s Awaken the Mainstream Media. We need to get this story out there.

I shaved my head during my weekly shower today. It’s soft and smooth like a baby’s bottom after shaving (my head shaving, not the baby’s bottom shaving), and Beth noticed it when she was kissing me goodnight.

“Oooh, you’re all soft and smooth,” she said. “Want me to give you head?”

I’m prone to redundancy. I answered the question that didn’t need answering: “Yeah!”

And so Beth starting rubbing my head with both hands, stroking and caressing and rubbing all over while she went “Oooooh” and “Aaaaaah” and made sexysexy noises.

“How’s that feel, big boy?” she asked.

“Not bad,” I answered. “But I thought it would be… Well, wetter.”

And then she licked my head.

Here’s several examples of the idiocy of Fox “News,” the “Fair & Balanced” White House propaganda organ and right wing “news” source of choice:

First: Sean Hannity.

Second: interviewing Matt Drudge.

But the third is the doozy. Sez Hannity: “You have a huge, blockbuster story that is up there now … and you pick up AP, Reuters reporting … When will the mainstream media catch up to Matt Drudge?”

Drudge runs a story he picked up from AP and Reuters, but they have to catch up to him. This is “news,” Fox style.

I especially love the headline: “Fox Facts - Liberals plot to take back America.” Ooooohhhhh, aaaaahhhhh!!! Look out, the scary liberals are coming!

You’re damn right we are. It’s a real fact.

Video at onegoodmove.

Here’s an old picture of me that I just stumbled across. Halloween, circa 1986. This was at the office, and at lunch the company held a party for us at the hotel across the street, to which we had to walk, passing a construction site along the way. Lemme tell ya, those construction workers were pigs with their whistling and yelling at me! I felt like a piece of meat! ::sniff::

From Center for American Progress

Gooood question.

GraceDavis is the rockin’est worst nightmare Dr. Laura ever woke up from screaming. In honor of her birthday today — and in thanks for her major pimpage of Beth’s Avon Breast Cancer Walk — I offer the following haiku:

It’s GraceD’s birthday
Fifty years young today-ay
Blow out the candle!

(Fucking seven syllable line haiku bullshit…)