Baby Kos is about to turn five months old. We can't resist, he's too cute. (We found the picture in Kos's comments.)

Give a big welcome to The Majority Report, the new blog for Air America Radio. Here is the link to listen live.

And we're happy to report that Neal Pollack is back to blogging.

An excellent private investigations firm in Denver is seeking a web designer to modernize and update their website. If you're interested, or have a recommendation, please leave a comment or send us an email. We'll forward them on. Thanks.

Please join us in wishing a speedy recovery to Stuart Buck, lawyer and author of The Buck Stops Here. Stuart has been hospitalized with a sudden stroke. He is 29 years old and was perfectly healthy. His wife has posted some info at his blog, and it looks like he is going to be ok.

Say hello to The White House Props Department--it's new and clever.

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Wow...check out SouthPaws, just started by Political Wire. It's an aggregator of liberal political bloggers:

Please help test two new Political Wire features. Southpaws features blogger commentary from the Democratic, left-of-center perspective. Wingers highlights Republican, right-of-center views. Each page is updated every hour throughout the day and night.

A big thanks to Taegan Goddard for putting this together.

Say hello to The Revealer-- a daily blog about religion and the press. It is a project of NYU's Center for Religion and Media and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

The blog's goal is to educate the public about the role of religion in politics and culture and to help journalists do a better job of covering religion. It is edited by Jeff Sharlet, who writes for Harper's, In These Times, The Nation and The Baffler) and published by Jay Rosen, creator of PressThink and the "founder of the public journalism movement."

Jeff writes, "Too much of the press is blind to the role religion plays in politics; we think The Revealer is needed to add some nuance to the discussion."

Update your bookmarks.....Kevin Drum of the wildly popular Calpundit has moved to Washington Monthly.

TalkLeft hit 2 million visitors today. We began in June, 2002, and were lucky to get 100 readers a day. Now, over 6,000 readers daily visit TalkLeft, many more than once. Thanks to all of you for making us a success in the blogosphere.

We're taking the day off....see you tonight.

The "remember me" function in the comments should be working again. A big thanks to Al-Muhajabah who answered our question in the Movable Type forums. For those of you with MT questions, check out Al-Muhajabah's MT tips page.

Skippy has a roundup of what we're all writing about this weekend. How Appealing and Hamster have a roundup of the weekend news.

The new Vanity Fair has an article on political bloggers with a picture of Daily Kos at home in Berkely on his computer--and much deserved praise for him and other liberal bloggers. Unfortunately, it's not online. [Ed. link to Daily Kos fixed now.]

The group blog En Banc is no more, but Unlearned Hand , our favorite of the group, has resumed his individual blog.

Matthew Yglesias got a bloglift (y.w.c.t.p.) and is looking very good.

Atrios thinks that a major terror attack right before the elections would be good for Bush.

Last One Speaks has the latest on Drug Czar John Walters who is touring Nevada on the taxpayer's dime to lobby against a marijuana initiative.

Avedon Carol at Sideshow has the lowdown on why Ted Rall's cartoons got dropped by the New York Times.

Billmon at Whiskey Bar exposes the rankness of the Republican's attempts to smear Kerry as being the choice of terrorists.

World O'Crap and Xoverboard sum up the "bipartisan psychotic feeding frenzy that is Susan Lindauer, the woman accused of providing diplomatic services for Iraq."

Update: Trish Wilson writes about the need for emergency contraception and has a lot of info on how to get it.