Cross-posted at Fathered Five

On its face, it's a good idea: maintain a database of fathers so that estranged fathers can be consulted in case of adoption. It helps protect the rights of fathers, right? Mothers can't just give the child up for adoption without the father's agreement.

But the devil is in the details, and these details are straight from the hellish imagination of a damn strange devil. Meet him below the fold.

Ok, maybe the question in the title is a bit optimistic. But consider the headlines over the last year or so: Rocky calls for impeachment, BYU students protest Cheney, Rocky vs. Hannity debate sells out in under 2 hours...(I was sure there were more.) But those three stories alone could not have surfaced in Utah 10 years ago.

What does that have to do with the Devil and brown people? Well, perhaps for the first time in Utah history, someone who publicly squawks about the devil is today made to look absurd. See who and how and learn about Satan's Great Plot below the fold.

Don't miss Glenn Greenwald today. He turns Charles "because-I-have-more gravitas-than-you" Krauthammer into a wad of shapeless gack lying in the road.

The flood of posts here and all over the blogosphere tut-tutting collective American and media curiosity with Cho have been exactly right, imo. In a just world, the sick bastard would have gained a bare mention and then quickly been forgotten. But he got his own morning show, instead. Enter Krauthammer, chief finger wagger.

According to a D.C. Craigslist ad. It's part time and you can telecommute from NMI, Belize, or the wireless hotspot of your choice.

If only Carl Bernstein and not Bobby Look-at-my-access Woodward were the more prominent and visible of the two, the country may not have taken six years to begin to scratch the Bush itch.

ViaEditor and Publisher, we learn that Bernstein believes Bush has done far greater damage than Nixon.
h/t to Huffpo

Friedman. Beinart. Zakaria. RadarOnline dissects the hawkish pre-invasion positions of these (allegedly) leftist pundits, showing how they were not just wrong, but french-kissing-your-mother-in-law, MilliVanilli-Emmy wrong on every fucking utterance. But the kicker is Radar's exposure of their post-invasion career success. Quite simply, they're selling the blood on their hands for top dollar.

Chris Ahearn, President of Reuters Media, posts this intriguing bit at Huffington today. Reuters is throwing $100k behind a project supporting a media by and for the people. I hope the transformation of the media is about to speed up. Money quotes below the fold.

I'm a technical writer. I translate unintelligible gobbledygook into language that makes sense. I help people and companies stay on message and communicate accurately and precisely. So when I accepted a freelance job from John Yoo to edit his USA Today article, (yeah, I know, but it pays the bills) I figured it was a routine brush and polish. I should have known better. The draft was a load of unsupported claims and footstomping reiterating the same line Yoo and Abu Gonzalez have been spouting from the beginning.  Below the fold, the article as it was returned to me with my edits and suggestions redacted. He included a snooty hand written note: "Only patriots work for me." I guess I won't get that next job from him.

This topic deserves more time and attention than I can give to it, but no other diaries have even touched it, so here goes. Maybe the commenters can flesh it out.

There was a GREAT story on NPR's Marketplace today about a luxury fishing trip held each year in AK and attended by congresscritters in droves.

Dear Mr. Ash,

I am writing this letter because we need you in the longer fight. You see, it's not just about Rove or Leopold or anonymous sources. It's about Jeff Gannon, Media Matters, ePluribus Media, Democracy Now!, Salon.com, (and many more) and the power of blogs to shape the national conversation. Publish a retraction, Mr. Ash, and do it now.

NPR diva Diane Rehm was superb today. The show was an update on Iraq and good discussion of potential policy solutions for the disaster. From the show's home page:

Ivo Daalder, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, former director for European Affairs for the National Security Council, and co-author of "America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy" (Brookings, Nov 2003)

Thomas Donnelly, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of "The Military We Need: The Defense Requirements of the Bush Doctrine" (AEI Press)

Zbigniew Brzezinski, counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, professor of foreign policy at The Johns Hopkins University, and author of eight previous books, including "The Grand Failure" and "The Grand Chessboard."

Yes, that's the Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the A.E.I. Brzezinski enters at time stamp 13:30 and is must-hear radio. Highlights after the fold.

Hurry! You've got to see this ad before the freak who approved it pulls it down for copyright violations! Take your nausea meds and tune in to Vernon Robinson's hate-and-fear-filled screed. He's running for congress against Dem Brad Miller NC-13, and I think every NC resident should be appalled and embarrassed.
Update: Thanks to the commenters who pointed out that this is old news and was already diaried by Reid Fan. It looks like the only story here is that the ad, once pulled, is now back up.

Good economic news today:

Well La-di-FRICKIN'-da! I guess I'll go buy that boat I've been wanting now. I was just waiting for the index to climb above 95 before I went out and consumed that baby. Maybe get me some fuzzy dice from WalMart to hang on the canopy and a yellow ribbon magnet for the trailer!

Karen Hughes, Under Secretary of State, in charge of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, gave an interview on NPR tonight. After the steaming pile she horked up, I'm glad I wasn't in the booth with her. Ewwww! Keep in mind that her mission is to convince the Muslims to like Murkans. And she, well, sucks at it. Michele Norris reports that "Polls show a growing number of Arabs and Muslims across the world sympathize with the insurgents fighting the Us in Iraq." Gee, really? Huh. Whodathunkit?
Interview excerpts below the flip.

It's been an exciting, even climactic final week of the hit trial, Kitzmiller et al vs. Dover School District, the second trial in less than a century to determine whether America will fully join the Enlightenment. Closing arguments were on Friday, but "Pseudoscience Saturday" just has a special ring to it. (Read about the final day of the trial at the first link above.)

Below the flip, then, the "myth" of separation of church and state, the magical evolving designed amoeba, and other entertaining and alarming Ignorance on Display!

Have you exhausted your Harry accolades?
Tired of hoping for sudden news of Rove's indictment?
Or maybe, like me, you just like to snort through your nose at gun-totin' fundy rednecks who are waiting for the rapture.
Whatever your symptoms, I have the cure! Pull up a chair, pop open a beer, and watch as Judge Jones scares the beJeezus out of a witness for the defense. At issue is a check for $850, some amateur money laundering, and whether Beethoven really evolved from pond scum.

But first, the back story...

Kossacks and Democrats are salivating over the wrong wing implosion taking place over the Miers nomination. The WSJ, Powerline, and others are in full meltdown over the betrayal by dear leader. "Why, he's, he's, NOMINATED A CRONY!" Even Jonah "Hear-No-Evil" Goldberg had to admit the nomination looks suspect.

I'm as gleeful as anyone; it's fun to watch them be surprised that the Emperor is naked, and the timing couldn't be better on the edge of an advancing wave of investigations and indictments. It's a good time to be a Democrat. And that's exactly what Rove wants you to think!

Because money is a mystery to me. I know only that it's better to have more of it than less, and it's better to have it sooner than later. I also know that I ain't got any, and that everyone I know who has it is Republican. Not only that, but money is at the heart of why they are Republican: Repub tax policies allow rich people to keep more of their money than Dem tax policies. So my first question is, if you're so liberal, howcome you ain't poor? My other questions are below the flip.