YEAH, THAT’S “GRASSROOTS” ALL RIGHT: A Joe Biden speech! “Biden’s event won’t be quite like a town-hall: a limited number of general-public tickets were given out yesterday, and Biden won’t take questions. . . . The Democratic National Committee also launched a word-of-mouth campaign today against the raucous town-hall goers: it blasted out the following talking points about the ‘organized mobs’ via email, asking supporters to pass them along to friends and family.”

Nice to see ’em standing up against “astroturf” with genuine DNC talking points!

POLL: 71% Say Obama’s Policies Have Driven Up Deficit. Gee, why would they think that?

JORGE CASTANEDA: A U.S. Drug War with Mexican Consequences.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION UPDATE: William “Freezer Cash” Jefferson guilty on 11 of 16 counts.

DISASTER PREP: Five Tools to Survive the Apocalypse. I recommend a bottle of whiskey, too . . . .

HULA HOOP DREAMS: With Grace Jones video.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Birthers of a Nation & The Paranoid Style of American Liberalism. “Meanwhile, the GOP leadership and the vast majority of rightwing and conservative pundits have either rejected or ignored the birther stuff (including Ann Coulter and Pat Buchanan). But the GOP is supposed to own it. Democrats, meanwhile, were never held to a remotely similar standard when a far more evil and pervasive bout of paranoia claimed their own party.”

NEAL BOORTZ: Watch what you say in “casual conversation.”

I invite … no, I URGE you to refer the White House to today’s Nealz Nuze. In fact, do it every single day.

Another idea. Take the web address for Linda Douglass’ little speech and send IT to the White House. You can hardly sound more fishy than that.

Heh.

OUT THE “WRECKERS!” A roundup of the people spreading “disinformation” about ObamaCare.

HMM: Scrap Health Care Reform If It Adds To Deficit, U.S. Voters Tell Quinnipiac University National Poll; Voters Disapprove Of Obama’s Handling Of Health Care.

MORE EVIDENCE THAT Omega 3 fatty acids are good for your heart.

PLEASE SEND YOUR GET-WELL WISHES to Freeman Hunt’s dad.

NO FEARMONGERING HERE! New DNC ad: Mobs of right-wing lunatics want to feast on your flesh.

Plus this: “No need for outrage, though. Instead, celebrate the fact that even with a Democratic president, a filibuster-proof Congress, and the lure of ‘free’ ice cream in the form of socialized medicine, the left’s somehow managed to turn ObamaCare into a clusterfark of such epic proportions that their health-care message has now actually been reduced to ‘Don’t listen to the Republicans — they’re crazy.'”

Thank goodness we elected a “post-partisan” President!

HAPPY Cuban Resistance Day.

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.

J.D. JOHANNES is now reporting from Afghanistan.

IS WARREN BUFFETT a big, fat hypocrite? He’s not that fat.

HOME INVASION DOESN’T WORK OUT like those Brink’s commercials.

HYBRID VS. DIESEL: A 400 mile comparison drive.

BOOST: Hybrid sales rose in July thanks to new Prius, Cash for Clunkers.

IS ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER changing his position on offshore drilling?

IN THE MAIL: The Time Traveler’s Wife.

REASON TV: Looking for “fishy statements” on healthcare.

PJTV: Can the Republicans Take Back Congress in 2010?

FRANK TIPLER: Why opposition to the cap-and-trade bill is not “treason against the planet.”