I am hesitant to post this photo, but because it was passed along to me, I feel that it is acceptable to share it with this community.

This isn't breaking news, nor is it major news; it is not an eloquent critique of policy, or of anything else. It is merely a photo of someone doing something that countless American young people partake in, albeit it illegally. Underage drinking.

Pierce Bush, the nephew of the president, and University of Texas undergraduate, is pictured below with a bottle of Bud Light.

His birthday is, I believe, in March 1986, which would make him just over 20 years old.

Just received Howard Dean's latest e-mail, and was inspired enough to want to pass it along.

And to answer Dean's question--you're damn right we can.

See Howard's e-mail on the flip.

I apologize for the source of this information--the ever-lamentable and incorrigible Drudge Report--but the site is reporting something that will be of note to us here:

An examination of three administrative reviews by the Army, reveals shifting testimony, the destruction of obvious evidence in the case, and a series of contradictions about the distances, the lighting conditions and other details surrounding the shooting, the paper will detail.

In today's print edition of The Columbus Dispatch, an information box appears advertising coverage for the weekend.

This is outrageous.

I was perusing the blogosphere and came across the following post. It is a column of sorts, largely attempting to wax poetic about the loveliness and superiority of neo-conservatism. The author then moves to slightly criticize the current administration...before falling into the tired old rhetoric denigrating Democrats. But this is unsurprising. What caught my attention--and my ire--was his slam of Barack Obama.