-Via Hammer of Truth, finally some good news: Cory Maye is no longer on death row.  The efforts aren’t for naught, with time he WILL be free…

-I was going to post about how eerily convenient it is that the rumors of Osama’s demise come about during election season, but Glenn Greenwald beat me to it.
-Logan spots a Zogby poll that proves — yet again — that not only is a significant amount of the US public willfully ignorant of reality (46% still think Saddam had something to do with 9/11), but panicky enough to gladly toss their civil liberties (36% said they’d let the government open their mail — and that was the LOW among the tactics offered).
-”No Child Left Behind”?  More like No Crony Left Behind.  Nope, no surprise here, run along…

-While we’re at it, how ’bout a War on Hernias?