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Glenn Greenwald’s feelin’ it. Atrios is feelin’ it.  I’m feelin’ it.

The fog of ‘war’ is starting to dissipate. Plates are shifting, my friends.

The reaction to realigning and extracting ourselves from the Iraq quagmire is going to be intense.

The results of uncovering and shining bright light on the malfeasance in our Department Of Justice and its naked attempts towards extreme politicization are going to be seismic.

This country’s economic underpinnings are on shaky ground.  Follow the money.

Look around you.  Think of your own footprint and where it’s leading.

I hope you’re awake.

I hope you’re ready.

Josh Marshall summarizes our continuing FUBAR clusterwhatever:

It’s a huge distortion to say that this means the war was ‘lost’. It just means what the war supporters said would happen didn’t happen. The premise was bogus. Like I said at the outset, the whole exercise is like getting trapped in a brown paper bag. You can keep going into the bag and into the bag and into the bag and never get out or change anything. Or you can just turn around and walk out of the bag.

Of course, the damage that’s been done over the last four years of denial is immense — damage to ourselves, to the Iraqis, damage to Middle Eastern security and our standing in the world. So walking out of the bag isn’t easy and it won’t fix things. But the stakes alleged by the White House are largely illusory. Most of the White House’s argument amounts to the threat that if we walk out of the bag that we’ll have to give up the denial that the White House has had a diminishing percentage of the country in for the last four years. The reality though is that the disaster has already happened. Admitting that isn’t a mistake or something to be feared. It’s the first step to repairing the damage. What the president has had the country in for four years is a very bloody and costly holding action. And the president has forced it on the country to avoid admitting the magnitude of his errors.

Naomi Wolf lays it out:

As Americans turn away quite leisurely, keeping tuned to internet shopping and American Idol, the foundations of democracy are being fatally corroded. Something has changed profoundly that weakens us unprecedentedly: our democratic traditions, independent judiciary and free press do their work today in a context in which we are “at war” in a “long war” – a war without end, on a battlefield described as the globe, in a context that gives the president – without US citizens realising it yet – the power over US citizens of freedom or long solitary incarceration, on his say-so alone.

Bill Frisell – Nashville

Buehrle, I mean.

How ironic that Corky McCorkster should spoil his perfect game.

Digby on the idiocy of Gonzales having to rehearse for his hearing appearance next week:

I can hardly believe that this isn’t either a national joke or a scandal. The Attorney General of the United States should not have rehearse for five hours a day to truthfully answer questions from the US congress. It’s ludicrous. Just how stupid is this guy, anyway?

I’m telling you if we ever have to endure another presidency like this because the press thought the food was better on one of the campaign planes and they thought the other candidate was, like, so totally icky, my head will explode.

Just as the nation wanted a “fun” president, George W. Bush also surrounded himself with guys he’d like to have a beer with — and naturally those guys are halfwits just like he is. I guess we should be thankful that he wasn’t allowed to put Gonzales or Miers on the Supreme Court.

Steve just tipped me off to this one:

Seeing Lemmy in there reminds me of the night we ditched our bass player and drummer in Berlin. We thought we were teaching ‘em a lesson but they ended up with the last laugh .. and a great story to boot.

Devolution.

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I’ll be on at 3pm today with Steve & Diane for a Dolly Varden interview/performance.

Atrios:

4 years later I am so sick of every “what we really need to do in Iraq” column which gets published. None Of That Is Going To Happen. We either stay there under George Bush, or we start to get the fuck out. You don’t get to micromanage the war.

yes, that, but also fond memories of Dick Clark turning folks on to some pretty cool, oddball stuff in the late 70s/early 80s. Make sure you’re familiar with this one:

Same summer my parents packed us in the car for a 3-week summer roadtrip that left some scars. Yep, we even made a stop at Disneyland. “Mickey Mouse” made me laugh even more after that.

My favorite music moment at SXSW this year was listening to Dolly Varden labelmates Magnolia Summer perform “Once In A While” on a warm, almost-spring evening.

Here’s a clip:

You can click here and hear the whole tune. Show ‘em some love.

You can actually accomplish things without getting people killed.  It’s pretty cool.  Check it out.

but I’d rather watch Glenn Greenwald hit another one out of the park.  Not to mention the added insight of many of his regular commenters.

The sprawling and truly disturbing gap between Mike Pence’s delusions/claims and actual reality is, in essence, the black hole into which America’s credibility and security have disappeared over the last six years.

Play ball.

Another video from the 2004-08-29 gig.