More stuff you should be reading instead of this lousy blog…

• Seventy people were killed by a car bomb in Iraq yesterday.

• Juan Cole says the Bush Administration is exaggerating the threat from al Qaeda yet utterly failing to do anything to counter the threat that exists.

• The transcript of a Michael Moore speech given a couple of days ago in Cambridge is up at AlterNet. It’s a bit long, but it’s jam-packed with good, patriotic sentiments. Worth a read. (via Seeing the Forest)

• Using a special type of Magnetic Resonance Imaging which lets them watch the brain in action, scientists have discovered autism’s biological roots: a brain which refuses to coordinate functions. The discovery has led to a new theory of autism and suggests new ways for treating the disorder. (Science Blog)

• Adam Felber notes the media’s shock that the Convention is actually interesting!

• The Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal is continually stimulating. Today’s post asks, “How would media coverage be different if convention handlers didn’t try to manage expectations?” The idea being that if the DNC says they are going to spread a positive message, the press will look for instances of negative messages. If the DNC says they’re going to spread a negative image, the press will look for the positive points. If nobody said anything about their expectations for the convention, the press would have to make up its own mind. Interesting thoughts. (Also, see Sven’s comments about John Stewart on Nightline. Wish I’d caught that interview.)

• Via Seeing the Forest, here’s another way to see the latest Convention postings.

• Brilliant! Billmon posts I, Robot-inspired laws of Republicanism.

• We note with respect the passing of Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA structure. It’s impossible to imagine what our world would be like today without this singular achievement.

• Thanks to Arianna Huffington for reminding me about this chestnut from the Al Sharpton speech:

“We were told that we were going to Iraq because there were weapons of mass destruction. We’ve lost hundreds of soldiers. We’ve spent $200 billion dollars at a time when we had record state deficits. And when it became clear that there were no weapons, they changed the premise for the war and said: No, we went because of other reasons.

If I told you tonight, Let’s leave the Fleet Center, we’re in danger, and when you get outside, you ask me, Reverend Al, What is the danger? and I say, It don’t matter. We just needed some fresh air, I have misled you and we were misled.”

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