I'm so glad to see this. Armando at Daily Kos agrees the compromise to the nuclear option is not in our best interests if it allows Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown to be confirmed. Josh Marshall of Talking Points seems to agree. We need more of you to speak up.

My thoughts are here. The latest from CNN confirms that five of seven would be confirmed. I'm still hearing only Myers and Saad would be rejected.

Update: Thanks to Ian of Political Teen for putting up the video of Connected Coast to Coast's blog report yesterday on the compromise. TalkLeft got a nice mention.

Tristero breaks his blog silence to agree that the compromise should be rejected.

I won't be back here tracking developments until later this afternoon, so here's a space for you. Three to get you going:

I see London, I see France, but spare me Saddam in his underpants. Ideas of how the London tabloid got the photos? How long till Crooks and Liars gets the video?

Check out this filibuster - nuclear option guide which the Wall St. Journal has made available online for free. It has some details other guides are missing.

And President Bush said today he'll veto stem cell research legislation. Your theocracy at work.

Blogads has initiated The Law Blog Ad Network. It allows advertisers looking for legal blogs to find them easily and with one click, place their ads on multiple blogs. For advertisers, it eliminates the guesswork in finding their target audience.

We're starting small, with eight law blogs. We're trying to attract advertisers of law products, so we're keeping it to lawyers who principally write about legal matters. In other words, if you're a lawyer who blogs mostly about food, you should join the Food Ad Network, not the Law Blog Network.

We will be adding more blogs to the network. Ideally, we'd like to have at least 25. Joining is by invitation, and you will have to carry a link to the network on your site. You also should have some decent traffic numbers on your site and a reliable counter.

You can be a member of multiple networks, for example, I'm also a member of the new Liberal Blogs Ad Network, which launched last week with 44 blogs. Other examples are the LA Blog network, the baseball network and the gay network.

Henry Copeland, the founder of Blogads, believes as the number of blogs continues to grow, ad networks will be the wave of the future.

If you're interested in joining the Law Blog Ad Network, send me an e-mail with any questions.

My email box has been overflowing with German spam for a few days. Crooks and Liars tracked it down:

Direland has the scoop The racist spam that has flooded inboxes from Australia to Anaheim with hundreds of thousands of e-mails is designed to boost the NPD's score in elections this coming Sunday in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populated state. The Sober.Q virus, Der Spiegel says, is "the newest version of the Sober virus, a worm that infects address books and sends a copy of itself to all the entries. Various security firms have released warnings that they received hundreds of thousands of Sober.Q emails within the first 24 hours of the virus' outbreak."

Update: The news is now reporting on the growing problem.

What's on your mind this weekend?

I'll be off-line much of the day, so here's a space where you can pick the topics of discussion.

The right is already slamming the Huffington Report. One incredibly nasty review proclaimed it the equivalent of Gigli and Ishtar after only ten hours.

Please. It got 8 million hits yesterday - 10,000 hits a minute. Those numbers hardly indicate a box-office failure. Do you think the re-launch of the LA Times website today got that many peeps?

How can anyone judge it so soon? The writers are trying. Give them a chance . I just wish I had time to read more of it.

Update: Austin Bay thinks it's a clog, not a blog. He says the layout is confusing and there are too many voices. I really like the layout of the blog page, and find the choice of who to read refreshing. But at least Austin put some thought into his criticism, unlike many who seem to be slamming it just because it's celebrity driven.

It's fairly common knowledge that blogs run on bandwith and bandwith gets expensive. In recent months, video bloggers have emerged on the scene, posting segments of news shows, interviews and other events so that bloggers and others can watch online when we want, rather than having to watch on tv at the appointed hour.

It takes a tremendous amount of bandwidth to host videos. Two of them, Ian at Political Teen and Trey Jackson of Jackson's Junction, are asking for your help.

Crooks and Liars also takes donations, and even though they didn't ask today, I hope you send some help their way as well.

Political Teen and Jackson's Junction lean right; Crooks and Liars is firmly left. But all three deserve your support.

Liberal bloggers all know The Hamster. Eric Hananoki started the Hamster as a freshman at George Washington. We were early linkers to each other and got to know each other through e-mails. Now, Eric is graduating (already!) from GW and moving on....to Air America Radio and Al Franken's blog.

Congratulations, Eric. I'll miss The Hamster. Air America Radio is lucky to have you and I'm sure all your loyal readers will follow you over there.

Another shout-out today, this time to Democracy Rising, an anti-war site dedicated to finding an exit strategy from Iraq. Founding member Kevin Zeese (also President of Common Sense Drug Policy) writes today about the conscientious objector trial of Keith Benderman.

Last week, Kevin wrote about the problems in the Lynndie England guilty plea:

Now the prosecution of Private England may undo the damage control done by DoD to protect its officers and hold only a handful of scapegoats responsible.

Also say hello to our new advertiser, Raw Story Q and author Nancy Goldstein, who recently wrote Break Them Down on Abu Ghraib.

The Huffington Post is off and running. It's a winner, and going right on our "blogwire" roll. In addition to the home page, there's a blog page and a newswire page. The blog and newswire pages have a clean and crisp look - no clutter. There are a lot of blog entries on a variety of topics. If it wasn't a work day, I would spend hours there. I will later, I'm sure.

A nice touch is that some posts have a "bio" link and/or a picture next to the authors' names. This helps with those you've heard of but don't remember why, and those you are clueless about. Others, of course, are household names.

It's not just about politics. Some of those posting have never blogged before but gamely are giving it a try. It will be interesting to see who becomes hooked.

A few blog posts that have grabbed my attention so far:

John Cusak on Hunter Thompson. He describes a t-shirt Hunter sent him a few months before he died. Hunter had written on it:

'Politics is the art of controlling your environment.' That is one of the key things I learned in these years, and I learned it the hard way. Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other side of the World -- or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property -- or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons -- or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

I'm taking the day off from blogging to make lunch for my mother and my sister. The only people missing are the TL kid, who's in New York, and my father, who passed away a few years ago, but they will be with us in spirit. Happy Mother's Day to all of our readers, and here's an open thread for those of you who are online.