The very funny blogger TBogg is interviewed by Catch.

Kevin Drum of Political Animal weighs in on the scandalous Florida felon voting list and its ties to the states' Republicans about which we expressed our outrage here. More on the effect of the list in 2000 is here. And don't miss Billmon on Jeb Bush's shenanigans.

Jeanne D'Arc of Body and Soul tells us this is the quiz du jour.

Our "cyber-sis" Avedon Carol at Sideshow describes the hypocrisy of the latest conservative attack on liberals as only she can.

Skippy has some rants on Florida's voting system and on reports that Iraq's prime minister shot six detainees in the head, which he found out about from Holden who has been doing a great job filling in for the journeying Atrios.

Tim at Road to Surfdom writes about the air marshals' concerns over the new dress code imposed by Homeland Security--will it make them stick out like sore thumbs?

Julia at Sysyphus Shrugged reports on a blog fight going on over at World 'O Crap.

Gary Farber at Amygdala has a week's worth of good reading up. On the gay-outing plan. And on the craziness of our locking up crazy kids.

We're on Martha/Kobe/Scott Peterson duty again today, and then out to dinner, so unless TChris pops up, we'll see you tomorrow.

Several of our TalkLeft sponsor ads ended today, leaving the space totally free. The "Sponsor" slots on the right side of TalkLeft are the cheapest. We've just lowered the rates for the weekend. If you're interested, go here. (link fixed.)

Also, our second premium ad space is available --on the left side of TL, under the logo. The space is limited to one ad, so act quick. It's now taken for the week of the convention, but it's available now until July 24 and after August 1.

We're sorry to report that Classless Warfare (with Jay and Jane) is no more....but the good news is that Jay Caruso will keep blogging. His new blog is Mr. Blond's Garage. Now, we know Jay is a conservative, and he and TL don't agree on much, but we've always enjoyed reading him and will include the new blog on our "Best of the Other Side" blogroll. Jane, who also is a terrific blogger, can now be found at The Fat Guy.

More akin to our politics, we learn that Judd Leglum, who writes professionally for American Progress Report, has started his own blog, The Winning Argument.

And, there are the new kids in town. Go give them a read. Some are quite good.

One more: Now that the Bush twins have jumped into the campaign fray, here's a blog devoted to them. And Chelsea doesn't skate either.

TalkLeft readers will note that we do have a link section to "Best of the Other Side" -- a short list of blogs that have opposing viewpoints from our own. Say hello to another one, Redstate.Org, a Republican community blog:

RedState.org is focused on politics, and seeks the construction of a Republican majority in the United States. We hope to unite serious, innovative, and accomplished voices from government, politics, activism, civil society, and journalism to participate in this work.

Why are we linking to it? For the same reason we link to Tacitus, one of the blog's founders. He's a good writer and every once in a while, we agree with him.

Happy Second Blogiversary to Skippy--one of our oldest and favoritie web buddies--and a big congrats for hitting the 500,000 visitor mark. We read Skippy every day--he always makes us smile. He's also one of the most generous linkers around.

Say hello to Ghost in the Snow. He's 17, from Texas and pretty savvy. [link via Blah3.com]:

Look! There's Iraq! Tons of oil and we can pretend to be tough on terrorism by bringing down a whole country! It was an obvious choice. And, with the stupidity of the general American public, which dictates that an Arab is an Arab is an Arab, the invasion began. Backed by the Republican-owned media, the idea that it was a war for freedom and all that is right began to permeate the minds of otherwise intelligent people.

So now you have a huge bias against people such as myself, who read between the lines and realize that this war is a political ploy. I'm the one who will get persecuted for choosing jail over the draft.

Our second premium ad space is available --on the left side of TL, under the logo. The space is limited to one ad, so act quick. If you take it for a month, you will save bucks and it will stay up through the Democratic Convention, where we'll be blogging live with our new press credentials and undoubtedly have more visitors to the site.

We're off to court for the afternoon. Have some fun and speak your mind here.

Instapundit explains why he doesn't have comments. He's right. At his level of traffic, monitoring the comments would take so much time that there'd be no time for blogging. While we get hundreds of comments a day, we still read each one--and try to delete those that contain profanity and name-calling. Because we're nowhere near as popular as Instapundit, we can still do it. We hope to continue, and we've noticed in recent months, that our readers are getting the message. There are fewer objectionable comments. For that, we thank you, because we believe interaction and the ability of readers to express their view is important. Plus, it's a lot easier for us to report the news than to analyze it. Reader comments allow you to write the analysis so we don't have to, which in turn allows us to keep TalkLeft up to the hour (give or take a few) with current events.

So, thanks to you readers who use asterisks in place of letters to help us avoid the profanity censor-blocking software used by businesses and law firms, who use words other than name-calling and personal attacks to voice your disagreement with us or another commenter and who follow the html instructions for including url's in your comments. It will help keep the comment section of the site alive even as we continue to grow--and we are committed to trying to do that. We think it's time we recognized your efforts to accomodate our idiosyncratic rules publicly, because so many of you have adapted. Thank you.

Update: Samizdata states a great comment policy here. Trolls and blogroaches beware.

A big thanks to Scotus Blog--written by the Goldstein & Howe law firm--for being indispensable today with the first news and analysis of the Supreme Court opinions.

Goldstein & Howe, P.C., is the nation's only law firm devoted principally to litigation before the Supreme Court of the United States. In the last two terms, the firm was counsel in thirteen cases decided on the merits. This term, we are lead counsel in three merits cases. The firm also regularly consults and drafts briefs on intricate and important issues in matters in other courts.

Update: Law Prof Jeff Cooper of Cooped Up has resumed blogging. This is great news, as he was one of our daily reads.

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Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin, who writes the excellent Balkanization, has just added two esteemed professors to the blog: Sanford Levinson and Cass Sunstein. Go take a look, and don't miss this post of Jack's on elections and the Constitution. Here's a piece, but go read the whole thing:

Blogger Matt Yglesias (who also writes for Tapped) has lost him mom. The funeral is today. You can leave your condolences on his site here.