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?

We are on a last-minute, unexpected assignment in Manhattan, after having spent the morning in court in Colorado, afternoon on a plane and evening at dinner with our son. So, posting will be light until we get back on Thursday.

The plane ride ended unusually. After landing, the pilot came on to tell us that we wouldn't be deplaning for a while as the police were coming on board to "meet someone." Sure enough, some uniformed cops accompanied by someone who looked to us like a federal agent came on board and headed into the coach section. (We had snagged a last minute upgrade to first.) A young man, early 20's, dark hair, dressed more like a student than a terror suspect, strode up the aisle and left with the police. The pilot then said the first class section could deplane but those on coach had to stay on board a little longer. As we deplaned, there were lots more uniformed police lining the jetway.

We never did find out why the young man was arrested. The flight attendant told us that it was not a surrender-- that the young man did not know he was going to be arrested before the plane landed. We asked a policeman on the way out if the young man had a lawyer, but he just laughed.

We can't help but wonder whether the arrest was the product of the Government's new passenger screening program --and if so, what is in the program that would cause the police to board a plane to publicly remove a passenger that way. It was creepy.

P.S. There were 150 emails waiting when we logged on tonight. The hotel's high speed connection is down, so it's unlikely we will read most of them before tomorrow evening. If you sent a submission or comment, and we haven't responded as quickly as usual, please understand.

We're glad to report that skippy is back from his Alaska vacation and sounds just like, well, Skippy. And Howard Bashman of How Appealing is back from his week at the shore and blogging away. We missed both of them and found ourselves checking in to read some of their older stuff.

We're still waiting for Jim Capozzola of Rittenhouse Review to return from his labor day weekend break, and Lisa English of Ruminate This to come back after getting her kids settled into their first week of the new school year, and then we'll feel like things are right side up in the blogosphere.

Elsewhere around the hood, Kevin of Reach M High Cowboy has an interesting post about Bernard Henri Levy's book on the murder of Daniel Pearl, which is about to be published in English. Kevin says the book will be controversial, and likely cause more French-bashing but that Levy is "not so easily pigeonholed." In an interview, Levy says, "I am alarmed by the way anti-Americanism is becoming globalized. Through Danny Pearl's experience, I had the feeling that the idea of America as a magnet for the worst was becoming a global phenomenon."

In other globalization news, check out the blog Earth Info.net which has the latest on the The World Trade Organization's Ministerial Conference taking place in Cancun, Mexico from September 10th-14th.

Nathan Newman has the first post in a new series on the importance of labor unions and on unionization as the key to progressive social change. Today's entry is Nathan's personal story of how he became so committed to unionism.

Liberal Oasis has an interview with Paul Krugman, about his new book, The Great Unraveling.

And Buzzflash was on the job all through this holiday weekend, so if you took a few days off from the computer, you can catch up there in no time.

Labor Day. It has us thinking about the many political and social justice bloggers--on the left and right--who toil long and hard hours in front of their computer screens to keep their readers as up to date as possible on issues and events.

We suggest visiting your favorite bloggers today and dropping a few bucks in their tip jars. In appreciation of their work--and recognition that their blogs are the fruit of their labor. Nothing big, just something that says, "Hey, thanks for the time and effort you spend writing, I enjoy reading you."

Well, we've succumbed. We're headed up to Vail for today and tomorrow-we'll be hosting a barbecue back home Sunday night, so blogging will resume either late Sunday or Monday. Have a great weekend.

Right Wing News has released the "Left-Wing Bloggers Select The Greatest Figures In American History" article. You can see the selections here.

Say hello and welcome to Corrente--a new blog by Leah, Lambert, Tresa and the Farmer, who did such a good job filling in for Atrios this summer while he was in Europe.

Good postings today:

Update: Buzzflash on the Weekly Standard v. Buzzflash and Blumenthal.

Media Horse on Bill O'Reilly's unsucessful attempt to have David Westerfield's criminal defense lawyers sanctioned by the California disciplinary commission. And, in a nutsell, on why the lawyers did nothing wrong.

The Westerfield attorneys were well within ethical boundaries to suggest scenarios consistent with the facts of the case regardless of what they knew, and that is what they did. It was the jury's job to decide how plausible those scenarios were based on the facts, and that is what they did (Westerfield was convicted).

Jeanne D'Arc of Body and Soul on the death of Torrance Cantwell, the autistic boy who died in church.

Hessiod of Counterspin on Bush's pledge to keep up his warplan and some thoughts on the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Tapped and Calpundit invite us over to Washington Monthly for the Mendacity Index on which President has told the biggest whoppers. No surprise there. It's interactive, and you can do your own rating.

For death penalty defense lawyers, or those who'd like to train to be one, Capital Defense Weekly has a calendar of upcoming training seminars (affectionately called "death camps" by those in the defense bar.) If you are a lawyer in a big firm who is not feeling challenged or stimulated enough, maybe you can get your firm to sponsor you and then take some pro bono cases. There are hundreds of death row inmates in the south without any representation at all for post-convction proceedings.

The Tom Paine blog has details about the planned 2004 Republican Counterconvention in New York.

Cursor has the latest on the State Department's crackdown on leisure trips to Cuba.

Joe Conason says Chris Matthew's Hardball should be renamed Softball. One of these days we're going to pay for a Salon subscription, we just can't bring ourselves to do it yet. At least the day pass ads aren't bad.

Jeff Cooper keeps up his attempt to fill in for vacationing Howard Bashman of How Appealing. He's finding it tougher than he thought. We give him an A for effort, though.

Andrew Northrup of the Poor Man is blogging for Wesley Clark at The Clark Sphere.

Eric at the Hamster says Carol Mosely Braun has picked up some endorsements.

Skippy's still somewhere off the coast of Alaska, but he has blogged in.

That's a wrap from us today--back late tonight.

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