Skippy the Bush Kangeroo, one of my longest standing friends in blogtopia (y.s.c.t.p.) turns four today. Congrats Skippy and Skippy community bloggers, keep up the great work.

Typekey is up and running and comment registration is back. Anonymous comments don't let readers know if they are coming from one person or different people. They are misleading because they give the appearance that multiple people share a position that might only be coming from one individual.

Also, without registration, I can't control the spammers, even with filters. I deleted more than 10 comments selling ringtones yesterday. Deleting comments takes a long time because of the rebuilding infrastructure here.

So, if you'd like to comment, set up a free account at Typekey. It will allow you to post comments at all blogs that use the service.

I've just been advised people are unable to log in through TypeKey to comment. I've opened up the comments to everyone without registration until it's fixed. I'll clean the threads up tonight if need be.

Update: Typekey is indeed down.

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Your turn. Be aware some new right-wing commenters have discovered TalkLeft. A few are interested in reasonable and civil discussion but several are here just to mock or stir up trouble. Don't feed the trolls, and when I return, troll comments and insulting comments will be deleted. Otherwise, enjoy the day.

To get you started, check out Think Progress -- the head of DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel told the Senate yesterday "The President is always right." They even have the video.

And Rudy Giuliani's ex-wife Donna Hanover has taken a gig as AOL's online love and sex coach. "You could easily imagine what her advice would have been to Judith Nathan, the current Mrs. Rudy Giuliani, who began the relationship while he was still married to Hanover."

One more: Attytood, telling America's news directors to cancel Bush's "fear factor."

The doldrums of summer? Another FBI disclosure of an aspirational but not operational terror threat on the Holland Tunnel in New York -- why disclose it now?

Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer are in Aspen at the Ideas Festival. So is Colin Powell who fell ill while diningat Campo Fiore in Aspen with Bill Clinton. He went to the hospital for a few hours. Katie Couric and Wolf Blitzer and other media luminaries are in Aspen this week as well.

Hillary Clinton will be in Denver tonight for a fund-raiser at a private home for her Senate campaign. I'll be attending, but as a guest, not a journalist, so I won't be blogging about it.

This is an open thread.

I'm not seeing much news yet today, here's an open thread for you to chat away.

With the immigration hearings beginning today, more details of the Korean missile launch and Joltin' Joe still in the news, there should be plenty for you to talk about while I'm in court this morning. You choose the topics, these or others, and I'll be back this afternoon.

Round the blogosphere today:

• Water Tiger at Firedoglake does the heavy lifting.

• Arianna has a Sunday roundup.

• Avedon Carol at Sideshow wonders if "Memo from Turner" from Mick Jagger's movie Performance is on YouTube. Right here.

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Time for an open thread. Speak your mind, keep us up to date on news and what the other blogs are up to. I'll be back.

• Crooks and Liars has a funny video of Robin Williams on the Late Show doing an impov on Rush's vacation.

• MPP is launching a new marijuana ad focusing on politicans and lawmakers who have smoked pot:

A potentially controversial new ad campaign from the Marijuana Policy Project names prominent public officials, including President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Vice President Al Gore, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as having admitted to using marijuana. The ad then asks, "Is it fair to arrest three quarters of a million people a year for doing what presidents and a Supreme Court justice have done?"

• Calling All Wingnuts calls into right wing talk radio shows so you don't have to -- and records his interviews.

Here's an open thread for today since I'll be running around and TChris is still, lucky guy, in Europe.

• Congrats to Peter Daou who is leaving Salon and the Daou Report to work his magic for Hillary, who is very wise to have selected him. Back in 2004, he did a great job doing outreach and managing the online rapid response for the Kerry-Edwards campaign.

• Noah at Defense Tech: The best source of Pentagon intel may be the tv.

Update: Squeaky's Sightings

• Laura Rozen on Pumping up the Iran conflict w/Feith, Franklin, Rhode, Leeden and Ghorbanifar

• Via Crooks and Liars: John Stewart on the Miami Seven

• Arthur Silber on the traitorous press [link fixed]:

There's a lot going on today, feel free to weigh in on these or other topics:

• Crooks and Liars has finally left Radioland behind and moved to Wordpress. The site looks the same but will be so much easier for us to navigate and John to manage.

• Jane's sister writes in at Firedoglake to thank everyone for their kind words on their mother's passing. And Parachutec does Late Nite FDL with a video of Bob Dylan doing Subterranean Homesick Blues. The tag line of TalkLeft since inception has been "The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles." Great choice.

• The Miami 7 are chickenfeed: See Juan Cole. I hope he won't mind me quoting a couple of paragraphs: