Cruisin' the Internets

Check out these blog posts:

• Lawyers, Guns & Money looks at revisionist Confederate history. The Money Quote:
  

  "Confederate nostalgia has always included this racial component, and has never been about the "heritage" of the American South."

• Bob Somerby writes The Daily Howler and is the blogging master for documenting some of the worst media atrocities when it comes to trashing Democratic Presidential candidates and spreading myths and lies. The Money Quote:
  

  "Saint McCain is a very good man! The Clintons—and Gore—are really quite vile! Since the summer of 2002, we’ve explicitly asked them to fight these novels. But nothing on earth can make them do it. Simply put, they never will."

• Atrios links to a story about a reporter who ... gasp ... let her 9-year-old son ride the NYC subway alone! The Money Quote:
  

  "... accidents and bad things can always happen and since parents get blamed for them they feel the need to go through elaborate steps to shield children from very low probability events."