The title of this article is “Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts.”  As though they are covertly trying to sneak in rather than being actively.  To be fair, the first paragraph is a spot more accurate: 

A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization. 

Nobody wants to be the president who institutes the draft.  But we’re running out of soldiers and they have to come from somewhere.  Why not the KKK?  After all, they’re already pretty good with the firearms and bad attitudes and come preindoctrinated with a hatred for brown folks.  They should fit right in when they get to Haditha.

What can I say but – Genius! Who would have thought that courtesy would help capture hearts and minds. I always thought that gunfire and rape was the best way. I guess that’s why I’ll never work for the Pentagon.

Marines based in western Ramadi now regularly knock on people's front doors instead of storming through. Instead of roaming the streets in armored Humvees, Marines took a census of the area - sitting down and listening to people's concerns and complaints.

"You'd be surprised at how many people in Ramadi are shocked when we knock and ask to come in. And in Arab culture, it makes all the difference," said 2nd Lt. Ryan Hub of Sumter, S.C., who as a teenager lived in Kuwait for two years while his Air Force officer father was stationed there.

Umm, once more for the cheap seats. It’s not that it makes all the difference in Arab culture, it makes all the difference in every culture.  You boobs.

All this campaigning might be cutting into Chimpy’s busy August schedule of logging, bike riding, and paying no attention whatsoever while major U.S. cities are destroyed.

President Bush will hold a news conference Friday in Chicago as the White House explores new venues for putting the president before the public.

It will be his first full scale news conference since June 14 in the Rose Garden on his return from a surprise visit to Iraq...

...Bartlett said the Chicago trip was the beginning of occasional presidential trips around the country to learn what's on Americans' minds.

Great, so more hand-picked audiences to salve Bush’s fragile ego.  Mr. Bush, save your jet fuel.  What’s on American’s minds is how many days are left before you’re out of our lives for good.

In the wake of recent revelations that Lieberman's plan to run as an independant democrat are, in fact, not so much legal, William F. Buckley offers this positively surreal piece on the Kiss heard 'round Penn Ave:

But in looking into Lieberman's vulnerabilities, I discovered in Wikipedia this item: "Following his 2005 State of the Union address, President Bush, after shaking lawmakers' hands, abruptly grasped Lieberman's head in both hands and kissed him on the cheek. At first, Lieberman's staff humorously referred to the embrace as 'some kind of Yale thing.'

"However, as political backlash against the peck arose, Lamont's supporters have appropriated the incident into a campaign button: 'The Kiss: Too Close for Comfort.' Lieberman has since denied the kiss ever took place. 'I don't think he kissed me. He learned over and gave me a hug and said, 'Thank you for being a patriotic American,' Lieberman told Time magazine."

So I said to myself, thinking back on our celebration in October, "Thank God I didn't kiss Joe!"

Yes, because that's why you two shouldn't be smooching. Not that I thought there was any real debate surrounding whether or not the two actually shared an intimate moment. They did:

However, as always, the right is missing the point entirely. The netroots aren't inflamed by whether or not there was actual lip contact or exchange of fluids between the two. They are displeased with Lieberman calling himself a democrat while betraying every. single. core value the party stands for.

The kiss is incidental and symbolic at best, though I would expect no less of the right to remain obsessed with whether or not two consenting male adults shared a tender touch. I can't wait to see how they react when this comes out: