Bush Wars sums up the reactions to Gore's endorsement of Dean. The consensus seems to be that Dean has the nomination locked up. A few, like Mark Klieman and Kevin at Lean Left disagree. Josh Marshall thinks it helps Dean, but really helps Clark.

Drug War Rant has a terrific long quote from a 1996 article late Sen. Paul Simon co-wrote with Dave Koppel for the National Law Journal on the foolhardiness of mandatory minimum sentences and incarcerating non-violent offenders.

Jay and Jane of the Daily Rant have renamed their blog "Classless Warfare" and moved it here.

James Capozzola of Rittenhouse Review got mugged the other night. He's okay though.

Ezra at Pandagon reviews last night's Democratic debate and says it was the worst ever.

Off the Kuff has an interview with Richard Morrison, who may challenge Tom Delay for his Texas seat.

Billmon at Whiskey Bar gives his take on the Guardian article positing that Osama bin Laden is winning the terror war.

Sean Paul at Agonist is taking nominations for a book club he's starting.

Patriot Watch informs about a new Government project called US-Visit, which will "replace a patchwork of disparate immigration databases and paper-based files and will require that almost all visitors be digitally fingerprinted and photographed."

Behind the Homefront has a link to a Navy memo by a a Deputy Assistant JAG (Judge Advocate General) about the effect of the Patriot Act on FISA searches and surveillance procedures.

Avedon Carol at Sideshow links to this article by a disabled Vietnam-era vet who recently visited a Minneapolis V.A. hospital and discovered, when Bush came on the tv, that many fellow vets oppose the Bush administration's war in Iraq.

Oliver Willis is running a poll on who Dean will choose for his VP candidate. Easy choice for us, if we're limited to the current crop of candidates: Clark or Edwards. Graham would be a big mistake. We think an equally intriguing poll would be to name Clark's first cabinet picks for Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense and Attorney General. Now there's where we think you'll be able to trace the choices to favors owed and repaid.

OK, then, we're signing off. If we're not back tomorrow, please read the blogs above and Jeanne at Body and Soul who picked up and expanded upon our post about John Lennon's soul transfer 23 years ago and SK Bubba and Sisyphus Shrugged who were kind enough to mention the same John Lennon post and run with it.