A happy Mother's Day to all from TalkLeft. I'm taking the day off from blogging, but here's a space for those of you online.

And don't forget to call your Mom.

There's a new blog spat emerging. It's between left wing bloggers and Pajamas Media. I've received several e-mails today telling me that TalkLeft is in the dust-up. But, really, I'm not. I've been aware for several months that PJM excerpts or links to TalkLeft posts occasionally. And I don't mind at all.

Here's the deal: Pajamas Media, which highlights blog posts in their center space, is trying to be more non-partisan and excerpting posts of left-wing blogs, (with multiple links to the originating blog). Several of these blogs are upset and demanding PJM cease the practice immediately.

What's hot today? Here's an open thread for everything but the Duke Lacrosse case.

I'm getting ready to head back to Denver (see post below)--will there be a Rove indictment today? Here's some space to talk about it - or anything else -- before I get back online.

I'll be sending out individual thank you emails this weekend to those who sent in contributions. They are much appreciated and as I noted below, you all sent enough to cover blog expenses for the next quarter -- including the cost of hosting and downloading court pleadings in the major cases.

I won't be by a computer most of the day, but I will try to check in. Here's your space to talk about whatever you find interesting today.

Our ads are down, our hosting bills are due, if anyone wants to kick in a few bucks, the links are here and I'd greatly appreciate it:

• PayPal
• Amazon (anonymous)

I'll be travelling until Friday so here's an open thread to keep yourselves current. I'll have my laptop with me, so I won't be gone entirely. And TChris and LNILR may check in as well.

If there's PlameGate news, be sure to check Firedoglake, Empty Wheel at the Next Hurrah, and Tom Maguire.

All of the sites on our blogroll are special, so I hope you give them a read too.

The Washington Post reports on Blogads' survey of political blogreaders. It's not the 20-something crowd.

In an unscientific Web survey of 36,000 people, Blogads reported that political blog readers tend to be age 41 to 50, male (72 percent), and earn $60,000 to $90,000 per year. Two in five have college degrees, while just a tad less have graduate degrees.

The full survey results can be found here. TalkLeft's results are here. What do the results mean?

Our hosting company had a denial of service attack which made us inaccessible this morning and again tonight. We're back online now, but if we go out again, you'll know why.

The site outage is over. All sites at our hosting company were inaccessible this morning due to problems with the networks connecting into their site, in other words, it wasn't at their end.

But, I'm out of time to blog for a few hours....so how about taking over for me?

Thanks much.

There's a great profile today of Daily Kos front page diarist Georgia10 in the Chicago reader. Who knew she is only 23 and a full time law student? She sure is smart and a good writer.

The article also presents a lot of information about Daily Kos and an easy to understand explanation of how diaries work on the site and how the front page diarists are selected.

We need more open threads to satisfy those of you who have something to say on topics other than those TalkLeft covered yesterday and today. Go for it, and I'll be back late this afternoon.

It's time for our Tuesday Open Thread. You can pick the topics and dicuss what you want. I'll be around and not around for most of the day.