I’d blog myself today, but I’ve got lots of stuff to do, and besides, these people are doing it better anyhow:

The Daily Howler takes apart Hardball’s pimping of Michelle Obama’s supposed swipe at Hillary, and how two smart liberal guests blew the chance to call bullshit on the bullshit.

The inestimable Hunter at Daily Kos speculates on the source of Bush’s mindblowing assertion the other day that the mistake we made in Vietnam was leaving.

Pandagon notes that in much the same way as the anti-choice freaks found a way to link Hurricane Katrina with their cause, they’ve found a way to link Michael Vick, too.

Here’s one more link, doing double duty in both the nonpolitical diversion and shameless self-promotion departments: Over at my other blog, we’ve been passing the time waiting for it to quit raining here in the Upper Midwest by talking about rain songs (part 1 and part 2).