BUSH LEAGUE DEMS
"The Clinton/McAuliffe/DLC chieftains who run the DNC are fully prepared to tank the election rather than turn over the reins of power to a new party organization. Which, after all, is one of the things Dean has promised."
(BABELOGUE)

AN INFORMED ELECTORATE?
"The Internet, a relatively minor source for campaign news in 2000, is now on par with such traditional outlets as public television broadcasts, Sunday morning news programs and the weekly news magazines. And young people, by far the hardest to reach segment of the political news audience, are abandoning mainstream sources of election news and increasingly citing alternative outlets, including comedy shows such as the Daily Show and Saturday Night Live, as their source for election news."
(PEW RESEARCH CENTER, unearthed by Jay Lewis)

AMERICAN GULAG
"Two years on, the rules of law continues to buckle under the weight of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay."
(HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH)

GUATEMALA AWARDS CUBAN BRIGADE HIGHEST HONOR
"The Order of Quetzal was presented by Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo as a tribute to the 1,700-plus Cuban medical personnel who have offered their services in remote areas of this nation since the Havana government responded to an appeal for aid in the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Mitch, which passed through Central America in November 1998."
(GRANMA, unearthed by CubaNews Digest)

SALSA'S LAST LION
"One of the last of a vanishing breed, Johnny Pacheco holds a torch that now shines as much for fallen comrades like Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Hector Lavoe, Celia Cruz, Pete 'El Conde' Rodriguez, Charlie Palmieri, and Jose Fajardo as for himself."
(VILLAGE VOICE)

CHICKEN FEED
A man wearing a chicken suit robbed a Kroger grocery store in Columbus, Ohio and the store's surveillance camera caught the robbery on tape. Watch in the WCMH Columbus FeedRoom.
(FEEDROOM)