A Fellow Kossack Stand Strong had an excellent idea.

He suggests that every Democratic voter paint one of their index fingers blue in representation of not only our Democratic vote, but our steadfast repudiation of the President and his evil Republican Party.

Indeed, we have the power to steal away on their more memorable photo ops of the Iraq War...

On the Eve of Blogosphere Day, I spent my evening (and a considerable part of the work day) with Chris Bowers of MyDD, BooMan, and the other denizens of Drinking Liberally and stars of the Philly Blogosphere (among them Atrios).  Chris and I went to the screening of Inconvenient Truth, which featured a question and answer session with the former Vice President and current legitimate President himself.  

Chris and I arrived promptly at 4:00 p.m.  I arrived before Chris and had to spurn the advances of Green Party petitioners who seized the opportunity of Al Gore's appearance for a petition drive to get them on the ballot.

It won't be a Republican Scandal for long if Senator Reid, the Democratic Leader in the Senate, and potential 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator Clinton do not return Abramoff-tainted money.  It is untenable that we are currently in a position where President Bush can say that he is returning such tainted contributions, but the Democratic Leader and presumed standard-bearer in the next Presidential election cannot.  

But Reid has his reasons:

Interesting and revealing article in this week's issue of Time Magazine:

I think it would be a great opportunity to meet her, and then for the liberal drinkers among us to walk down to Olde City for some beers later.

So, who's in Philly?

I am a pretty religious Catholic who believes in Jesus Christ.  But I can treat the Bible as something less than the absolute truth.  Indeed, I believe it is one large allegory preaching to primative and medieval man values and morals.  

There are some fantastic stories in the Bible that as a kid I was skeptical about.  

I mean, come on, the Red Sea just parting for Moses?   Yeah, that doesn't wash.   The entire planet flooded, and only Noah and his ark full of humans and animals surviving?  Unlikely, as we would have evidence of it in the worldwide fossil record.

The world created in just 6 days?  I rather believe William Jennings Bryan's theory in the Scopes Monkey trial that a day back in biblical times could have lasted millions of years.