Daily Kos writes about Blogshares and says we are the top priced lefty blogger.

Now for something completely apolitical, but cool nevertheless, check out BlogShares, the Fantasy Blog Share Market. It's a virtual stock market trading in weblogs. Signing up (it's free) gives you access to $500 pretend dollars with which to trade. Weblog market capitalization is measured by the number of incoming links.... At current market valuations, your $500 could buy 100 shares of Daily Kos stock, or nine shares of Instapundit. If you want TalkLeft, your 500 shares will snag you just 23 shares (giving her the highest market cap of any lefty blogger).

Kos also analyzes the un-decideds in the Democratic presidential nomination race:

Gary Hart: The early word was that he didn't have the money, but recent steps seem to suggest that a) he does have money, or b) it doesn't matter. It looks like a run is imminent. Volunteers at several college campuses have started recruiting volunteer interns to help ramp up their organization (a good way to do it on the cheap). While the first of these emails, leaked earlier this week, drew a careful denial from the Hart camp, the fact that so many of these are surfacing points to a coordinated recruitment effort.

Wesley Clark: As everyone here already knows, he's my favorite in this race. He's solid on national security, well-spoken, presidential, pro-choice, pro-gun, pro-affirmative action, anti-PATRIOT Act, and believes strongly that the government should provide for the less fortunate amongst us.

But is he running? Everything I've heard is that he's 50/50 on a run, and that a decision would be forthcoming after the war. However, the war ended quickly and still no decision.

We think Hart and Clark are the two to watch. If you're partial to Clark, check out the DraftClark website that Kos and Jerome of MyDD put together.

A big thanks to Media Horse for touting our civil liberties coverage.

Lisa English of Ruminate This has some good thoughts on what the Dems must do to win in 2004: coalesce and fight. Digby of Hullaballoo weighs in as well.

Eric Alterman's new Nation column is up, Bush Gone Awol.

Atrios takes off on liberal bloggers criticizing other liberal bloggers and has some thoughts about Castro:

...in the Pantheon of evil dictators of the last 40 years , including ones we actively supported like our good buddy Saddam, he doesn't exactly deserve the top billing. In addition, despite the fact that U.S. policy towards Cuba - driven at least in part by the Cuban exile community - is supposed to encourage "regime change," it seems to have been instrumental in preserving the viability of the Castro regime.

Jim Capozzola of Rittenhouse Review, future Pennsylvania candidate for the U.S. Senate, highlights the looting and destruction of Iraqi artifacts. Skippy is focusing on Iraq and fascism. Liquid List has an excellent post on the threats to our civil liberties.

We hope you will take some time this weekend to read these excellent bloggers as well as the sites listed on the right. All are contributing to the quality of discourse in the blogosphere, including the ones "on the other side."