Poop for Peace: "Poop For Peace Day is not about protest or partisanship or politics. Poop For Peace Day is about acknowledging the fundamental basis of shared humanity: black or white, liberal or conservative, Christian or Muslim or Jew, we are all united in struggle against the tyranny of the bowel."

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CBS: a persistent vegetative state. I'm beginning to agree with Rathergate triumphalists: remove CBS's feeding tube and put it out of its misery.

Last night's interview with Giuliana Sgrena was such a lax and negligent piece of work that there was no point to it at all. Why did Americans shoot and kill her liberator, Nicola Calipari? No answer except a weird shrug from a checkpoint apologist. Could it have been because Nicola was sitting next to her, the intended target?

No mention of Sgrena's reporting on the American use of napalm, or the fact that unusual attacks on journalists are not exactly unusual anymore.

We expect this kind of laxity from the editors of the Wall Street Journal, who made the same error of context — the sin-of-omission hallmark of right-wing spin. But we don't expect such calculated misbehavior or routine incompetence from our ostensibly liberal or even remotely rational media.

Die, CBS, die. Die today.

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I like to watch. Thanks in part to Popeapalooza, I've seen precious little television in the last ten days but my anticatholic and unpatriotic behavior will change tonight.

CBS 60 Minutes Wednesday, 8 p.m. ET/P — Italian journalist and former hostage Giuliana Sgrena says that the American military is lying about the shooting at a security checkpoint in Iraq that wounded her and killed an Italian intelligence officer.

PBS Frontline, 9 p.m. ET/P — President George W. Bush called him "the architect" of his re-election victory and he has been the president's chief strategist from the beginning. But Karl Rove is much more than a political guru; he is the single most powerful policy advisor in the White House. FRONTLINE and The Washington Post join forces to trace the political history and modus operandi of the man who has been on the inside of every political and policy decision of the Bush administration, including the current battles on Social Security, taxes, and tort reform. For Rove -- observers say -- enactment of the Bush agenda is a way to win the biggest prize of all: a permanent Republican majority.

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My Morona. By now you've heard the story about what Bush has on his iPod, but have you seen the Guardian's list of reader suggestions as to what he ought to be listening to?

Some of the recommendations:

Audio-book version of My Pet Goat

American Idiot by Green Day

Masters of War by Bob Dylan

Team America's 'America F**k Yeah!'

Every Sperm is Sacred from Monty Python's the Meaning of Life

"Let The Eagle Soar" by John Ashcroft

Horst Wessel Lied

Amusing factoid: in his crypto-Nietzschean autobiography Will, right-wing poster boy G Gordon Liddy mentions the Horst Wessel Lied as the most deeply stirring piece of music he ever heard in his life.

The Horst Wessel Lied is also known as the Nazi party anthem.

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