Joe Conason's new book is being 
serialized at Salon. Here is a graf I liked
If your workplace is safe; if your children go to school rather than being forced into labor; if you are paid a living wage, including overtime; if you enjoy a 40-hour week and you are allowed to join a union to protect your rights -- you can thank liberals. If your food is not poisoned and your water is drinkable -- you can thank liberals. If your parents are eligible for Medicare and Social Security, so they can grow old in dignity without bankrupting your family -- you can thank liberals. If our rivers are getting cleaner and our air isn't black with pollution; if our wilderness is protected and our countryside is still green -- you can thank liberals. If people of all races can share the same public facilities; if everyone has the right to vote; if couples fall in love and marry regardless of race; if we have finally begun to transcend a segregated society -- you can thank liberals. Progressive innovations like those and so many others were achieved by long, difficult struggles against entrenched power. What defined conservatism, and conservatives, was their opposition to every one of those advances.
Dennis Kucinich wrote an excellent entry while guestblogging for Larry Lessig. Kucinich seems like he'd be a great president. I really wish our country had instant runoff voting so I'd feel like I could vote for him.
Poor Pop. It appears he has the wrong sort of iMac. His computer wasn't booting so when Phil visited, they zapped the PRAM, got it to boot,
and found that the battery on the motherboard was bad. They looked on the web and
ordered a replacement battery from Apple. Unfortunately, it looks like the
battery he got was for the previous model. Although they have a
PDF which shows how to replace the battery in the earlier model,
Apple provides no directions for replacing the batter in a
slot-loading iMac, but I did find this nice page in Italian.