Incredibly Lazy Sunday Linkdump

My apologies to those of you regulars (there are actually a few of you now) for the lack of postings lately. Every now and then I get a week where the insomnia hits me and takes its toll, usually during a time when there is zero stress in my life, oddly enough. So I get cranky and lazy, so I deblogged for a while. This week I plan on looking a bit more at Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians", as well as put up a good movie review. And Wednesday, of course, I will make another seemingly futile attempt to stump Bill Simmon with "Name that Movie".

Anyways, here's a nice linkdump for you to chew on. It's nice outside. Why are you sitting here reading this?

As the Speedy Conzales attorney puge continues to gather steam, a few points to remember from Josh at TPM. First:

This isn't about the AG's lies. It's not about the attempted cover-up. It's not about executive privilege and investigative process mumbojumbo.

This is about using US Attorneys to damage Democrats and protect Republicans, using the Department of Justice as a partisan cudgel in the war for national political dominance. All the secrecy and lies, the blundering and covering-up stems from this one central fact.

And even if a crime were not committed (highly unlikely, at the very least there's lying to Congress and obstruction of justice), for our Repub readers out there: if this is indeed true, does it not change the fact that it's wrong? Or is it only wrong if a Democrat does it?

Also Josh points out why this is not the same as the firing that happens at the start of a new presidential term. This was done under the guise of some of the worst legislation of the modern era, the PATRIOT act. Like most things, it's easy to draw a hasty generalization; this is a complex situation, and the deeper one goes, the worse it looks. And like I said, legality aside, if it's wrong, it needs to be looked into.

Carpetbagger Report on how the conservative blogosphere is increasingly showing signs of dumping Gonzales.

Dr. Gerry Lower over at Smirking Chimp asks 'What "Given" Right to Dominion?':

It does beg the question as to how Americans can feel that they have some "given" right to dominate world politics and economics. They cannot do so in the name of American "democracy" - because human rights and the values of democracy are entirely ignored by the Bush administration, by corporate capitalism and by the religious right wing. That explains how the U.S. can be decades behind the rest of the world's democracies in honoring human rights.

Don't you love it when Christifascists get what's coming to them? Oregon teacher fired for 'teaching critical thinking'. Thankfully the school board used its critical thinking skills and saw right through what he was trying to do.

'Alien & Sedition' is becoming one of my daily reads. The authors tend to offer a lot of in-depth analysis of many aspects of the conservative movement, not just soundbites. Check out the latest, The Ghost in the Conservative Machine.

Finally, Bob Geiger's Saturday Cartoon Roundup. Enjoy.