We've been working today and unable to do our usual reporting and checking in with other blogs. So until we catch up in a few hours, here's the afternoon update:

Cartoonist Mark Fiore on Executions

By Recycling Pickering, Bush Resurrects Lott by Ruben Navarrette Jr., Seattle Times

(links via How Appealing)

Chicago City Council votes 46-1 to oppose war with Iraq

Sampling of this weekend's anti-war protests, Associated Press

The ACLU has a new report that says our privacy rights are being unjustly diminished and Big Brother is no longer a fiction.

The ACLU on the Rave Dismissals in Racine.

The defense team in the court-martial trial of the pilots who bombed Canadians in Afganistan, while taking "go pills" supplied by the Air Force to help them combat fatigue, blame communication errors for the mistake.

The Persecution of Pee-Wee Herman by Village Voice Columnist Richard Goldstein

And a bump to today's New York Times article on Law Professor Glenn Reyolds (Instapundit) and his new MSNBC weblog.