Yeah I know I've been falling behind on my news blogging. Anyway, in case you missed it:

-Why do poor rural southern whites continue to vote Republican when it's the GOP that keeps fucking them around?

-John McCain sez he'd be open to being Kerry's VP if asked. Though I've still got my money on Kerry/Clark.

-If you've ever read Bob Jervis and Bob Art's International Politics primer, you understand their obsession with chess as it relates to diplomacy.

-As the Catholic Church's completely boneheaded handling of the recent sex scandals shows, self-policing does not work.

-So it was Karl Rove who's behind the recent smear campaign against former ambassador Joe Wilson over the Plame CIA leak. Big surprise...

-"Military justice is to justice as military music is to music." Yeah, well, the Yee case and the Gitmo detentions aren't helping much.

-YES Magazine takes a look at online progressive communities for clues to where activism is headed in the future.

-A Bush appointee to the federal bench rules that the DHS must respect bail rulings in deportation cases.

-Meet 50 Shekel and Iron Sheik. And you thought all rappers were black, Asian, or from Detroit.