We have almost reached 500 donations. Update on the book drive blog: The Del Mar community newsletter calls me “wicked,” “x-rated,” and a “clown,” but it’s all because they love me.

I read this exact same “article” when I was twelve, except instead of Kate Winslet it was Holly Robinson. Well, there’s one other difference. Seventeen years ago, I read it in Tiger Beat.

Yep, they moved my server over the weekend. It’ll take a couple of days for everyone’s ISP to switch over to the new address. It’s one of the magical seven days of the year in Los Angeles when it rains.

Atlanta, Georgia: A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Friday that protesters may not be required to pass through metal detectors when they gather next month for a rally against a U.S. training academy for Latin American soldiers. “We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War of…

Jon Stewart Bitchslaps CNN’s ‘Crossfire’ Show (transcript here)

At what point do you throw up your hands and say, “I cannot even begin to understand your stupidity. You have rendered me speechless.” At this point.