Congratulations again to Frank and Cindi Chacon who tied the knot this weekend in Va. Beach. We had a great time at their wedding reception drinking and dancing and after-partying with all my psuedo-cousins at the 22nd street Bar & Grille. I'm barely awake now after the drive up 95...

Some folks not so happy with the Republican National Convention in New York have organized together to, umm, welcome the GOP's candidates.

Bright blue tarps, painted with glaring yellow letters, are going up on dozens of rooftops in Brooklyn, under the flight paths into busy New York airports. Thousands of delegates and convention guests peering down at the city might see messages like "No more years" and "Re-defeat Bush."

From Lawrence Lessig: Global Warming on a report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Given the propensities of the Bush Administration to force scientific research to conform to their agenda, this is a welcome change.

At last, high-level Administration acknowledgment that global warming is real, and that human activity (mainly the burning of fossil fuels, principally oil, natural gas, and coal, and deforestation in Third World countries) is a principal cause because such activity emits carbon dioxide.