Did you happen to see his 60 Minutes interview? I don’t know about you, but if his book has more about his growing up then about Monica, I’ll be a very happy reader.

I think it’s awesome that I can actually relate to a living President. Yes, that’s right, I said I can relate to him. At least his childhood in major respects.

If that comes as a shock to you, I apologize. I long ago choose to start my public biography when I was on the streets and a teenager. The time before is too hard to discuss. Too hard to capture in writing. Too hard to process.

I have said many times that I am blessed – and I mean it.

Hearing Bill Clinton’s story leaves me feeling both happy and a more then little insecure. Happy that someone from beginnings so similar to mine has done so much. And a little insecure that I haven?t done enough with my life to make a difference.

Supreme Court Rejects Patient Lawsuits Against HMOs.

Keeping Your Name Private Can Be A Crime.

There is “no credible evidence” that Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq collaborated with the al Qaeda terrorist network on any attacks on the United States, according to a new staff report released this morning by the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Although Osama bin Laden briefly explored the idea of forging ties with Iraq in the mid-1990s, the terrorist leader was hostile to Hussein’s secular government, and Iraq never responded to requests for help in providing training camps or weapons, the panel found in the first of two reports issued today.

Read the rest in the Washington Post.

Then read more about the anatomy of this myth at the Center for American Progress.

I would be yelling for impeachment – but that might help Bush get re-elected.

Instead:

Make a contribution to the Kerry campaign and make sure you are registered to vote.

Oliver Willis links to and gets a discussion going about yesterday’s endorsement of Kerry by the Philadelphia Daily News. It’s more then just an endorsement – it gives pointers to how you can get involved.

“I don’t wake up in the morning hating Kenneth Starr. I wake up in the morning feeling sorry for people who believe they are in possession of the whole truth… And I think you should, too,” President Bill Clinton told a large crowd tonight after the premiere of The Hunting of the President. “If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren’t smart enough to ask for it.”

“If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren’t smart enough to ask for it.” is another one for my quotes file. Damn that’s a great quote.

Read the rest of Jeff Jarvis’s post, summarizing last night’s event sponsored by The Week.

Instead of recieting the Pledge of Allegiance, why not move to reciting the Preamble to the Constitution?

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Read this analysis by Ernest Miller. It makes sense. And like Ernest Miller, I need to question the patriotism of anyone who would choose the Pledge over the Preamble. via Jeff Jarvis.