Bonnaroo - a festival of art, peace, and music.

In only its 4th year, Bonnaroo has become the leading music and arts festival in the US, boasting 80,000 attendees and quite possibly the best lineup of the year.

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Via Talk Left:

Why is no one calling on Senator Bill Frist to apologize to Senator Dick Durbin? Sen. Frist, repeating a false headline in the Washington Times, accused Sen. Durbin of saying Guantanamo is "a death camp." (Frist's statement, in two parts, is here and here. Read Senator Durbin's remarks. He never said that.

Frist also falsely claimed that Durbin said our service members are "committing genocide and war crimes." Durbin never said that either. Most outrageously, Frist essentially accused Durbin of encouraging suicide bombers:

It is anti-American and only fuels the animus of our enemies who are constantly searching for ways to portray our great country and our people as anti-muslim and anti-Arab. It is this type of language that they use to recruit others to be car bombers; suicide attackers; hostage takers; and full-fledged jihadists."

This is a transparent attempt by the right-wing to change the subject from the real problem - torture. The Bush administration's torture policies are un-American and they put our troops and risk and make American less safe.

Frist is a liar.

The Terri Schiavos

One day after an exhaustive autopsy sought to end much of the controversy about Terri Schiavo's life, and eventual death, Gov. Jeb Bush said he plans to ask prosecutors to investigate whether her husband took too long to call for help on the night she collapsed in 1990.


For God's sake, for once just admit you were WRONG and move on. Must you spin EVERYTHING?

Bill O'Reilly

Is An Asshole.

Aristocratic Right-Wing Blogosphere Stagnating

throwingstardna posted this interesting comparison of the top conservative and top liberal blogs:

The liberal blogosphere is beginning to pull away from the conservative blogopshere in terms of audience size. At the same time, there appear to be more conservative blogs than liberal blogs. In fact, when it comes to total number, new Republican/conservative blogs might even be outpacing new Democratic/liberal blogs.

Of the twenty-four liberal blogs in the top quintile, [many] are full-fledged community sites where members cannot only comment, but they can also post diaries/articles/polls. By comparison, there are no community sites among the top twenty-four conservative blogs. None, zip, zero, nada. In fact, of the five most trafficked conservative blogs, only one, Little Green Footballs, even allows comments.

There are swarms of new conservative voices looking to breakout in the right-wing blogosphere, but they are not even allowed to comment, much less post a diary and gain a following, on the high traffic conservative blogs. Instead, without any fanfare, they are forced to start their own blogs.

Read the rest of: Aristocratic Right Wing Blogosphere Stagnating
Part II: More on the Two Spheres