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...or, "Sunday Morning Not Quite Awake Yet Blogging." After spending almost all of Friday cycling through job boards trying to get more resumés into the pipeline after a rush of interviews early in the week, and much of yesterday putting together a kitchen trolley and catching up on errands and housework, I'm having trouble summoning up my usual Morning Quota of Outrage. So until I get back in the saddle later on, chew on these:

Glenn Greenwald takes a look back at the role ABC's Brian Ross played in perpetuating the myth that Saddam Hussein was behind the anthrax attacks. The more I hear about the Ivins suicide, and the late-breaking attempts to paint him as "a troubled man", the more the tinfoil is tingling.

Melissa writes about a horrific case in which a transgendered woman was beaten to death by her date.

Logan Murphy at C&L explains why we can't take the word of military apparatchiks on anything. Pvt. Lavena Johnson was reported to have committed suicide, and her family has been after the truth since her death. The truth, it turns out, is even worse than anyone could possibly imagine. I realize that soldiers are trained to be brutal, but it looks like some of that brutality is being committed upon the female soldiers in their midst -- and then the military is covering it up.

The inimitable Lower Manhattanite on Barack Obama's European trip and the McCain campaign's disgraceful reaction.

Pam writes about the politics of the Tennessee church shooting (complete with a list of examples of high-profile wingnuts calling for violence against liberals).

Hoffmania features a Ben Sargent cartoon that will have you either laughing yourself silly or projectile vomiting, depending on how cynical you're feeling today.

What PhysioProf said.

Skippy weighs in on the July unemployment numbers and the spin that because they weren't as God-awful as everyone said, everything's hunky-dory. I guess that means I haven't really been laid off because eight of the people in my department are KEEPING their jobs for now.

And the Thanatopsis Pleasure and Inside Straight Club Award for winning the Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor goes to Mad Kane!!!!

Congratulations also to ModFab and Mr. ModFab on their new digs. I'm not nuts about the so-called "Gold Coast" of New Jersey, but you can't beat a 20-minute commute. And the complex they're moving into, while older, is very nice and right across the street from a lovely park.

Daniel DiRito makes a case for John McCain to be, like George W. Bush before him, just the willing tool of handlers with their own agenda.

Warren Street takes a look at the suddenly-out-in-the-open history of Bruce Ivins and wonders why someone who had attempted to poison people as far back as 2000 had a security clearance at all. (And what I want to know is that with Ivins being so clearly a nutcase, why was the FBI going after Steven Hatfill for so long? And do they honestly think that revealing all this about Ivins makes them look GOOD?)

Juan Cole doesn't even have to provide commentary to his Iraq news roundup to make me shake my head in despair.

Matt Fretz says, "A pox on both your houses."

Is this the best we can do? Harry Shearer on how a crucial floodwall in New Orleans' 17th Ward is failing....again.

And DCap remembers the Edsel.