TALIBAMA DREAMIN'
"The other night I dreamed that Roy Moore was elected governor."
(ANNISTON STAR, unearthed by Joe Paul)

IRAQ REALITY CHECK
What if the war in Iraq were happening in New York State? What would it be like? In reality, the numbers are roughly comparable. The state has 19 million people. Iraq has 25 million. Baghdad's population is about 6 million. New York City's is 8 million.
(VILLAGE VOICE)
FOR A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO THE GUYS AND GALS WHO ARE OVER THERE CLICK HERE
(Suggested by Marsh Acker)

SPONGEBOB SEEN WITH UNDERAGE TELETUBBY, PINK POWERRANGER IS JEALOUS
First it was the spate of the SpongeBob rob jobs from local Burger Kings. Now the little yellow guy who lives in a pineapple under the sea is at the center of a far grimmer controversy, again not of his own making. Two conservative Christian groups attacking the cartoon character for allegedly being part of, as one of them put it, a "pro-homosexual video." CLICK HERE FOR OTHER COMMENTARY
CLICK HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE OF THE 'DEBATE' AMONGST THESE 'CHRISTIANS' or CLICK HERE FOR A LINK TO JUST GOOD OLE REACTIONARIES(MSNBC, unearthed by Joel Sogol)

MOBILE BUSH PROTEST
While hundreds of Alabamians were in Washington celebrating the second term of President Bush, a few of their fellow citizens staged a shadow inauguration Thursday in Mobile with a different take on the nation's leader. CLICK HERE FOR OTHER PROTESTS

(MOBILE RESITER and COMMON DREAMS)