Ooooh la la, Kate has come come out with the letter of the day and I have been included in it for my offensive tactic against terrorists in general and al-Sadr in particular. Time to play along!

• Zombyboy leads to some auditory offenses of his own. I’ve ripped into Nickelback before; that metafilter mix he links to is the straw that broke the camel’s hoof. Er, knee. Er, that crushed the camel into a thousand fleshy bits.
• Doc J, who has been outside the beltway for a while, has the beltway traffic jam up, where I learned that sheep are now banned from commercial planes. Are sheep pigs still allowed?
• Michele Catalano, at the Command Post, has transcribed Condi’s testimony today and has exposed some partisan obstruction of common sense by Ben-Veniste, who seemed to stop at nothing to get the answer he wanted to hear, and wanted to stop the moment he heard it before he could hear something that would challenge his otherwise fixed views. Bush kneeeeeeeeew!
• The otherworldly Jay Manifold has the lowdown on those pesky gas prices.

Okay folkies, that’s it from me. Between everyone who is joining the game there’s plenty of afternoon blog reading for everyone.