The Crazy World of Hugo Chavez

• Arthur Brown makes a strong case for drugs. I won't back him on it, but I respect the man's position.
  
• Apparently, the Republican Party will not be running any incumbents for Congress next year. They're all retiring.
• Hugo Chavez has just as much spite for time zones as he does for capitalist, imperialist swine.
  
• A Salon reader has absolutely THE BEST slogan for the Democratic Party going into the '08 election cycle: "Osama Still Has a Job. Do You?"
• Partisan propagandist headline: GOP voters lie to hide their stupidity.
• We need to deal with the health insurance issue, people! The Descendents aren't going to live long enough to meet their descendents!
• Why I love Bill Richardson:

  A June New Republic piece on Richardson opened with a portrait of Richardson messily munching a hot dog in the stands at an Iowa minor league baseball game, chatting about North Korea and peppering his speech with f-bombs. The magazine said, "This is the essence of Richardson's appeal -- that he can blend seamlessly into a crowd of AAA baseball fans (unlike, say, John Kerry) while chatting about his negotiations with a member of the axis of evil (unlike, say, George W. Bush). ... He is both the hot-dog-and-ballgame everyman and the seasoned international statesman."

• The biggest reason not to vote for John Edwards is that his wife won't live through his term. I'm starting to think one of the tragedies of this political era is that Elizabeth won't be around to take office herself.