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* Help out New Orleans without the promise of beads, booze, or breasts. [ DailyKos ]
* Futility, by any other name, would smell just as promising. [ QandO ]
* Amnesty International USA kicks off its annual conference today in Portland. All races and religions welcome; must appear overworked, underpaid, and fantastically smug. [ HuffPo ]
* The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is pretty [ripe for some drillin']. [ skippy ]
* Let's just privatize the whole war in Iraq and be done with it. [ Pacific Views ]