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:

Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake has been in Oklahoma all week at her mother's bedside in the hospital. Her mother passed away this afternoon. If you are a reader of FDL (and what progressive blog reader isn't), it would be nice to visit FDL and leave her your condolences. Christy says she is (quite understandably) devastated.

Here's an open thread for you all (except Duke which will get it's own.)

Major thanks to TChris for his excellent posts this morning. He's about to go on a two week vacation, so make sure you catch all of them as you'll be stuck with me until his return.

I've been busy writing elsewhere today:

• Altercation, The Torture Edition

• Bloggers, Karl Rove and the Presumption of Guilt (an op-ed in the Washington Examiner)

• Jailing the Undocumented at 5280

Writing is much more labor-intensive than practicing law, I'm glad to be going to work now.

I had dinner with Murray Waas in DC tonight. While we've talked on the phone a bunch and e-mailed about PlameGate, we had never met in person. He was suffering from a really bad bout of bronchitis, so we just ate at my hotel. Then we walked to the Capitol building where I took some pix on my cell phone, but I haven't figured out how to get them from the phone to the email (or set up email in the phone -- one of those high-tech razors,) so it will be next week before I get them posted and you all can see Murray standing in front of the U.S. Capitol.