Speed reading

We're busy here following up on the convention, writing Mehnert LTEs, digging up dirt on Snowe, and getting ready for Yearly Kos. Meanwhile, check out these don't-miss posts from the last few days:

• Digby on how anti-Democratic storylines infect the media.
• Americablog's campaign to support the supporters of traditional morality. Jesus Christ is this action funny and on target. So richly deserved that tears of gratitude will course down your cheeks.
  
• Bill in Portland Maine's Bush-Truman debates. Pure gold.
• Jerome a Paris asking how much more do corporations need before it trickles down?
• Sirota on how the wingers have hijacked the terms "centrist" and mainstream" and use them as powerful linguistic weapons against us.
• Francis Wilkinson's government by gonads and the manly man narrative.
  
• Crooks & Liars on a religious right video game in which children can shoot New Yorkers while shouting "Praise the Lord."
• Portland Press-Herald endorses Mehnert.