And only because I haven't done this in awhile, and summer and long weekends need some unadulterated optimism:

Things I love right now

CJR Daily, barbecue and jello salad, red sandals, Davis Square, old dresses from the 1950s, red ales, the Washington Post, Robert Penn Warren, the West Wing, floating holidays, Newbury Comics, Shatner-style karaoke, getting my driver's license soon so I can take weekend trips out of Boston, re-watching old movies (it's like comfort food, only on film), hamburgers on the broiler, creamsicles, really hot days when you can't do anything but lay on the couch in a slip with your eyes closed, kisses, walking down the street in the sunshine listening to Badly Drawn Boy for the first time in years, summer thunderstorms, being lazy, the knowledge that I don't have to come to work for five whole days.

Happy summer.

Wow, what a shocker. "Bush administration once again distorts facts for political gain."

This is my favorite part:
The definition used for measuring support, he said, had broadened to the point that even assistance as trivial as editing a government health official's speeches could allow the Bush program to say it had supported treatment for everyone receiving antiretrovirals from that nation's public health system.

Read about it here. Or don't. Because it doesn't seem to matter how many news articles reveal Bush doublespeak, no one seems to get it anyway.

"...more than two-in-five voters (42%) say they would favor impeachment proceedings if it is found the President misled the nation about his reasons for going to war with Iraq."

Um. But. We already found that the President misled the nation about his reasons for going to war with Iraq. Did everyone forget that?

(Read the poll results here.)