Amygdala: Changing attitudes toward mental illness.

Lance Mannion: Stupak and the bishops, the bishops and me.

Sadly, No: Nothing will make them happy.

TBogg: Atlas begs.

Pam's House Blend: Tradishinul marridge is what brings us together today.

Thump and Whip: Glenn Beck doesn't identify as white, or speak for "white America" – except when he does.

James Wolcott: It takes more than a market rally to pull the wool over Bolton's mustache.

Guest post by Batocchio. Mike is back tomorrow. Send tips to Finnsagain AT aol DOT com.

Alicublog: Six sizzling excerpts from Going Rogue. You betcha.

Fafblog: The Muslims are due on Maple Street.

driftglass: The jolly banksters.

The Hunting of the Snark: Being unable to choose to have an abortion is pro-choice?!?

The Satirical Political Report: Hannity's "apology."

Guest post by Batocchio. Send tips to batocchio9 AT yahoo dot com

Reporters Without Borders: Two Azerbaijani bloggers were sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison this week on trumped up charges.

Anti-War Blog: The itch in Joe Lieberman's Gitmo finger.

Facing South: Are Southern politicians more likely to be against health care reform?

Yikes!: BAC doesn't sugarcoat it regarding the Catholic Bishop's lobbying in the health care debate.

Zaius Nation: Get Well Soon, Glenn Beck!

William K. Wolfrum: Kareem's leukemia and a personal campaign for the National Bone Marrow Registry.

Guest round-up by Blue Gal, Batocchio takes over for the weekend: send tips to batocchio9 AT Yahoo dot com.

Vagabond Scholar: A series of Armistice Day posts, well worth the time.

Earth-Bound Misfit: And the military has yet another problem.

Speaking as a woman writer and film-maker, I laugh and scream simultaneously when I hear national publications imply that women can't write and women can't make films.

Stupak, Stupak, Stupak, Stupak.

Pour Me Coffee: Good news from the WH Visitor Logs! But did they search for Stupak?

Mike's away, guest-posted by Blue Gal (Did somebody say Stupak?)

The Political Carnival: It's not okay to listen to Obama's education speech at school, but watching the Fort Hood funeral, even if it causes deep emotional distress? That's a go. (h/t Relaxed Politics)

Figleaf (not work-safe): A perfect analogy to why 'no means no.'

Mock Paper Scissors: No, really, Peggy Noonan, it's a distinction to be the only person left from the Reagan administration "brand" that is not in jail, senile, or dead.

The Plum Line: Obama not taking the 'racist' bait of that moron Rupert Murdoch.

Off the beaten path, hey kids, it's Comic Panel Remix!!!

They gave us a republic: The Nightowl Newswrap

Prairie Weather: Fraud

The Brad Blog: TN GOP fights against the rule of law and paper ballots

The Sideshow: Health Care Roulette

Pensito Review: Carl Hiaasen's letter to Sarah Palin from her publisher

Happy Blogiversary to bark bark woof woof!

Linda R. Monk, J.D.: Let Us Now Praise Uppity Women (h/t Where’s the Outrage?)

The Plum Line: Harry Reid calls GOP's transparency bluff: Is your health care bill a secret, or merely non-existent?

AMERICAblog News: Top McCain campaign advisor running out of insurance. He has a "pre-existing condition."

Apoliticus: Top 5 annoying talents of President Obama

Bill in Exile (not work safe) : New York Twenty Three

Family and Friends blog: Our Achilles Heel

TBogg: The beatings will continue until morale improves

skippy the bush kangaroo: How Goldman Sachs bet on America failing

The Bobblespeak Translations: Face the Nation with Joe Lieberman

field negro: Pastor, please don't shoot, you might hit the usher

ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: California AG Brown illegally taped reporters...Not a news organization...Jon Stewart breaks it down...Inside Iraq...Media failure compounds the financial failure...NPR gets it wrong...Sometimes, opinion kills...Moonie Times reaches out to Tea Partiers...Shielding reporters and bloggers...Short on facts...Phony AP fact check...Fred Hiatt's strange argument...Early Glenn Beck footage located...Budding journos

The Washington Note: Lawrence Wilkerson comments on South Carolina's worst

The Democratic Daily: Freedomworks' Little Frankenstein Lab: Oregon

Matthew Yglesias: John Hannah, patriot

Lawyers, Guns and Money: The Tories and Europe

Newshoggers: Hooverville

alicublog: Notes from the 'compassionate conservative' front

Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!: Lying runs in the family

The Hunting of the Snark: Greasing the Skids

Calculated Risk: Unofficial Problem Bank list grows to 500

La Gringa's Blogicito: Possible resolution to political crisis in Honduras

Ken Silverstein: Six questions for Desmond Travers on the Goldstone Report

The Impolitic: Big Friday news dump

Emptywheel: What if trials prove torture wasn't necessary?

The Diary of a Geek in Oxfordshire: If Mine Speech Offends Thee...

The Reaction: Nothing too shameful

Mother Jones: Filibusters and Holds

Thanks to Batocchio and Blue Gal for their great work during my absence

OFF THE BEATEN PATH: Minnesota Political Blog, Private Buffoon, I can't believe it's not a democracy!

It's true, you are dumb, Halloween book burners.

CJSD: Top Ten Reasons We Should Reject Our Nobel Peace Prize

Skippy: Self-Described Troublemaker Whines because People think he's a Troublemaker

PourMeCoffee: Michael Steele Accuses Democrats of Treason, in Writing, and No One Even Blinks Anymore

Ben Varkentine: Looking for something serious to read this weekend?

Guest posted by Blue Gal.

The Political Carnival: Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership


Brilliant at Breakfast: So presumably you can have blood pressure of 110/70 and low cholesterol, but if your BMI is over 25, you too, can be denied health insurance


AverageBro: Obama navel-gazing reaches another low


Submitted to a Candid World: Why did Arafat receive a Nobel Prize, and not Reagan?


pandagon: The point, you have missed it


Compare and Contrast.  Who's the Five Star?

They Gave Us a Republic: Big bank execs make out like bandits.

Majikthise: Nicaragua's shocking abortion ban, and the deadly consequences.

Sadly, No: Megan McArdle argues against health care reform, ignoring pesky facts, including an important medical innovation.

Cheyanne's Campsite: Celebrate Pete Seeger's 90th year and the Newport Folk Festival's 50th.

Guest post by Batocchio. Temporarily send tips to batocchio9 AT yahoo DOT com. Thanks.

Where's the Outrage: We need leadership on healthcare.

Reid Report: Duh, Obama-hate is mostly about race.

musings: A Texas county GOP group learns the Facebook, right after Murder She Wrote and their nap.

Amygdala: What our wars do to our soldiers

Mark Moford: Sigh, even God doesn't care about your sex life.