Video interviews by confrontational Barack Obama supporters at John McCain rallies are shooting up the YouTube charts, revealing angry and nasty anti-Obama sentiment that is in turn motivational for the Democratic presidential contender's supporters. A video titled The McCain-Palin Mob is the No. 3 most-discussed video on YouTube today, with more than 675,000 views since it was posted Wednesday. In the clip, Ohio rally-goers tell blogger Tim Russo (who's behind the camera) they have reason to believe Obama is a terrorist. Russo's questioning is clearly aimed at putting his subjects on the defensive, but they take it to ...

Proposition 8 Won't Be Easy to Defeat By John Henning, Huffington Post. In Fresno, California a Roman Catholic priest came out against Proposition 8 last Sunday during mass. In a televised account, KFSN-TV reports: Father Geoffrey Farrow of the Saint Paul Newman Center in northeast Fresno shocked parishioners Sunday morning when he came out against Proposition 8, an initiative that would eliminate the right for same sex couples to marry in California. After 23 years as an ordained Catholic Priest, Father Geoffrey Farrow has likely given his final mass ... Sunday mass ended with about half ...

Former New Yorker editor and Talk magazine founder Tina Brown's online behemoth, The Daily Beast, launches today, and certainly has the Huffington Post, Salon, Slate, and New York magazine in its sights. The site is named after the fictional tabloid in Evelyn Waugh's 1938 novel Scoop. In a Q&A on the site, Brown is asked if she's doing this because she's jealous of Arianna Huffington. Says Brown: "Not entirely, though I have always followed Arianna's career with the liveliest interest. She is a very old friend, going back to when she was at Cambridge and I was at Oxford. I ...

A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS Tonight is the premiere of The Ex List. I don’t know what it’s about, or if it’s supposed to be any good, but I’m watching it because the main character is named Bella Bloom. Which reminds me of a character named Billy Bloom. Which is in a book called Freak Show. Which just came out in paperback. You should buy it. In fact, skip The Ex List and buy Freak Show instead. It’s a lot better. Probably. In today's Huffington Post, Jane Hamsher points out some things overlooked by most pundits in the post-VP debate. ...

If I could figure out how to loop this, I would. In lieu of that, here’s my best copying and pasting for today, because my automated digest posting isn’t working at the moment. Hubris, Bellicosity and Fear - H.D.S. Greenway, International Herald Tribune: In 1914, the world went to a war that nobody really wanted in which “miscalculations, hubris, bellicosity, fear of looking weak” led to World War I. What could have better described Bush’s war of choice in Iraq? Hubris, bellicosity, and the fear of looking weak, we now know, all played roles in the decision to invade, but miscalculation trumped them ...

You may remember Elaine Donnelly. She's pictured here testifying at the July congressional hearings on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'. She's seated next to Eric Alva, the first Marine to be wounded in Iraq, who came out of the closet in February 2007. Donnelly heads up the right wing group 'The Center for Military Readiness' and called upon Veterans Service Organizations to attend a "a private, off-the-record briefing" in Washington D.C. on Thursday intended to strategize on how to prevent the repeal fo "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" from going forward. PFLAG obtained the letter sent to the VSOs which ...