Monday, Monday (Ba-daaa, ba-da-da-da)

• Dave Ettlin's Aunt Alice's birthday party.  (104!  Going strong!)
• Grass-roots organizing:  Walk for Choice in St. Louis, via Shark-fu.
• Noli Irritare Leones's collection of information about governments in Africa (link is to part II; part I is available at the tag).
• Echidne of the Snakes on the conservative War on Women.
• Southern Beale:

  Nor do I need to be lectured on morality by someone who seems to think the national budget should be balanced on the backs of middle class and low-income working people, while maintaining the wealthiest people in this country should be allowed to feast at the nation’s banquet table without paying a dime. Just three months ago he was shedding tears about the need to extend Bush-era tax cuts for America's millionaires; now he's telling us the nation is broke? Gee, I wonder how that happened.

• Driftglass (Mike Royko Chair [yes, it should probably be "Mike Royko Professor and Endowed Chair of Investigative Journalism at Northwestern," but that isn't really going to happen] at Unseen University) on the scam that is the No Labels movement.  
• I'm beginning to think the Left (as a political sensibility) went wrong around the time Lenin got off that train, but I am, again, discounting the religious fervor around Socialism/Communism.  In any case, and I'm not going to drag in footnotes, the history of "left" political movements parallels the history of Christianity rather closely.  You could look it up.