Police in Denver block anti-war protesters and attack CodePink activist.

Wall Street Journal's hard hitting report on VP pick Sarah Palin's… fitness routine? 

Sports activism?  In These Times interviews author Dave Zirin: " Zirin 'tackles' the notion shared by many left-wingers like author Noam Chomsky, who once observed that 'sports keeps people from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about.'"More

The Nation's Katha Pollitt on Michelle Obama: "It doesn't speak so well of the electorate, though, that Michelle Obama has to hide her light of career-womanhood and, yes, African-American experience under a great big bushel of bland middle-American family-values conformity."  Listen to there speech on RaceWire.org. 

USC Professor on men's media images: "Male stupidity is, in fact, a new form of machismo, and it comes—perhaps not surprisingly—at a [...]More

Daniel Albert has a piece about public space, critical mass and class over at n+1 regarding the NYPD attack on a cyclist also commenting "were it not for YouTube justice (1.5 million views and counting), they'd likely have gotten away with it"  Link to the video, if you missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3C1ExDPjqA

Always classy at the the DNC, Anti-abortion activists claim abortion a greater evil than slavery (via racewire)More

Katha Pollitt on John Edwards: "I suppose you could say he's done the nation a favor by further tarnishing that overrated and outdated brand."

Demand investigation of Army's cover-up of LaVena Johnson's murder.  See the APC's blog from August 13 for more on violence against women in the military.

While millions of Americans are losing their homes, John McCain can't even count his. 

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