We're back home and will provide details and pics down the road.
Turns out not much happened while we were gone. Everyone is well and Las Vegas is still under construction, but that will never end.
On the political front, Bush is having sleepovers with KGB Colonel-Dictators and London is facing a threat of educated fundamentalist terrorists.
Howard Dean comments on Bush freeing Libby from any jail time, as does Bill Maher. The New York Times looks at the irony of Bush trumping the law to give his pal a break while trying to be tough on crime and Tony Snow tries to make outing a CIA agent a minor detail.
Keith Olbermann would rather just have Bush and Cheney resign. Which would likely be best for everyone. Even them.
That said, the most disturbing headline I saw today is this: U.S. heightens security for 4th of July. If that doesn't say more about the power of conservatives to scare us out of our freedom using psuedo-Muslim boogeymen, I don't know what does. Get out there and enjoy your freedom.
In our case, freedom has a high of 116 degrees and sunny.
For those staying inside on that news, NPR has a plethora of July 4th stories, including ones on the flag, a reading of the Declaration, and notes on the War for Independence.
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