Here's our Sunday reading wrap-up. The weather is too beautiful for us to stay inside any more today. Back tonight.

Daily Kos on the Observer's count that there are 6,000 dead and wounded US in Iraq.

David Neiwert of Orcinus on the impropriety of the L. Jean Lewis appointment to a high level Pentagon post. Atrios has more.

Jeanne D'Arc of Body and Soul on Arnold's illegal pose--seems he came to America as an undocumented worker.

Skippy on the irony of Tommy Chong's jail sentence for internet bong-selling.

Happy birthday to Jim Capazzola of Rittenhouse Review who turns 40.

For something completely different, Andrew Northrup of Poor Man reports on rapper 50 cents recent brush with death.

Chesa Boudin (son of recently paroled Kathy Boudin) on Children Left Behind in the Nation.

Eric Olson at Blogcritics has a roundup of Johnny Cash links. [link via Instapundit.] We rode past San Quentin Friday and Saturday on the way to Sonoma from the San Francisco airport and could not stop thinking about Johnny Cash. We're still thinking about him. He was so large a figure to us. Maybe because among the first songs we learned to play on the guitar way back when were Cocaine Blues, Folsom Prison Blues and Long Black Veil. We played them incessantly--the chords were really easy. And even though we can't carry a tune, we sang them really loud while we played. We don't have a guitar around the house, but we'd bet if someone handed us one, we could still play them by heart. The only other song we can say that about is the Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers."