Congratulations to Atrios. Eschaton recorded its 5 millionth visitor today.

Atrios asks you to express your congratulations by donating to the DNC.

We'll do the same. We're small potatoes by comparison, but TalkLeft will hit the 1 million visitor mark sometime tomorrow morning (And 1,700,000 page views. Since June, 2002.) Boot Bush in 2004, give early and give often.

Our Altercation column is up. A big thanks to Eric for asking us to fill in for him today.

We'll be altercating over at MSNBC's Altercation Wednesday, filling in for the moving Eric Alterman. Don't forget to stop by. Charles Pierce fills in today--taking on John Ashcroft and his fervor for the death penalty, among other topics. Charles is a tough act to follow, but we'll give it our best. As he points out, altercating is a far better job than moving Eric's boxes.

Atrios is a prince. Our prince.

My laptop is on its last leg. I spend so much time blogging, I really can't afford to buy a new one. I know from TalkLeft's stats that we have many readers at major computer companies. If one of them would like to send me a new, light-weight laptop (so I can keep blogging when I travel), I'll be glad to write a review and feature it on TalkLeft and give the company a free ad for several months.

Private donations, anonymous or not, also accepted--just click on our wishlist to see -- although any brand will be just fine.

Update: I'm speechless. Absolutely speechless. And that's pretty rare for me. My wish list is showing that someone has bought me the laptop I wanted. I am very, very grateful. Whoever you are, thank you. If you included a note with the order, I will thank you properly as soon as Amazon lets me know who you are. If you sent it anonymously, please know I am in awe of your generosity (and hoping you don't change your mind!)

Don't forget to check out the new DNC blog, Kicking Ass. And donate to the Carville & Begalla Challenge.

Say hello to the DNC's new blog, Kicking Ass. This entry from yesterday is on Ashcroft's assault on librarians. [link via Atrios.]

And to The Drug War Rant, where you can stay up to date on the Government's latest follies in the War on Drugs.

Update: The site has moved here.

We love this website called Nobody Died: When Clinton Lied. It has pictures of road signs spotted across California by camera-equipped drivers. You can send your submissions to them to post. Just send the picture, the date and the intersection.

Reader Scarlet Pimpernel emails us that the signs appear to be the work of one group, and he spotted one today, about 10'X10', over the Santa Monica Freeway that read:

"Dear America, Thanks for all the money, sorry about your kids. - Halliburton Oil"

on one side,

and "Nobody Died when Clinton Lied" on the other.

Denver's Rocky Mountain News features Colorado bloggers today. We think they did a first-rate job and hope you will give it a read.

Here's our Sunday reading wrap-up. The weather is too beautiful for us to stay inside any more today. Back tonight.

Daily Kos on the Observer's count that there are 6,000 dead and wounded US in Iraq.

David Neiwert of Orcinus on the impropriety of the L. Jean Lewis appointment to a high level Pentagon post. Atrios has more.

Jeanne D'Arc of Body and Soul on Arnold's illegal pose--seems he came to America as an undocumented worker.

Skippy on the irony of Tommy Chong's jail sentence for internet bong-selling.

Happy birthday to Jim Capazzola of Rittenhouse Review who turns 40.

For something completely different, Andrew Northrup of Poor Man reports on rapper 50 cents recent brush with death.

Chesa Boudin (son of recently paroled Kathy Boudin) on Children Left Behind in the Nation.

Eric Olson at Blogcritics has a roundup of Johnny Cash links. [link via Instapundit.] We rode past San Quentin Friday and Saturday on the way to Sonoma from the San Francisco airport and could not stop thinking about Johnny Cash. We're still thinking about him. He was so large a figure to us. Maybe because among the first songs we learned to play on the guitar way back when were Cocaine Blues, Folsom Prison Blues and Long Black Veil. We played them incessantly--the chords were really easy. And even though we can't carry a tune, we sang them really loud while we played. We don't have a guitar around the house, but we'd bet if someone handed us one, we could still play them by heart. The only other song we can say that about is the Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers."

Tom MacGuire over at Just One Minute has moved to typepad. Adjust your bookmarks.

We have a brief due tomorrow --here's our selection of choice Sunday reading:

Atrios on the lack of minority anchors and pundits on tv and in some liberal publications. (permalink not working for us.)

This San Francisco Chronicle editorial examining the war on terror two years after 9/11 and finding we're not any safer--just less free.

Howard Bashman of How Appealing , who has the best roundup of the Sunday News, including an article on the newest trend in courtroom attire for white collar defendants . He's also right on top of tomorrow's Supreme Court oral argument on the lawfulness of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act.

David Neiwert of Orcinus continues his short series on Bush, the Nazis and America. Part I is on falsifying history. Part 2 is on the Bush Fortune. Next up will be the Bush ideology.

Patrick Nielsen-Hayden of Electrolite has an analysis of the increasing presence of group blogs, with links and descriptions of many of them. While he praises some, he's not entirely fond of the design concept.

Lisa English of Ruminate This has a gushing review of Joe Conason's Big Lies and says it is must reading. We've about to start reading it.

SKBubba has an advance copy of Bush's speech tonight and it will make you laugh.

Wampum Blog compares the proposed cost of reconstruction for Iraq with the budget for other agencies, using OMB statistics.

Veiled4Allah provides a history of early Muslim and Arab immigrants to the United States.

Skippy brings his wit to political, war and media issues today. If you run into Jim Capozzola of Rittenhouse Review, will you tell him Labor Day is over and it's time to start blogging again?