How special is this? The great state of Colorado has the proud distinction of being the first slave state the Union has known in over a hunnerd years. Lord knows what they'll do for an encore. Rescind the vote for everyone except landowning white men, probably.

From the vigilant virtual pages of Wired News, a little update on how your American tax dollars are working to make you safer: Homeland (Sieg Heil!) Security's proposed internal passport regs: Applicants must present a valid passport, certified birth certificate, green card or other valid visa documents to get a license and states must check [...]

(Nola read this book review to me over coffee in the backyard this morning.) As America searches for any joy in the fiasco it has made of Iraq, it can at least be proud of serious and brave reporters like Mr Ricks—among whose fine observations is the novel fact that few American troops now care [...]