From the "if you don't believe something, you'll believe anything files", the "Gore Challenge" (via Greenie Watch):

As a believer:

• that human-caused global warming is a moral, ethical, and spiritual issue affecting our survival;
• that home energy use is a key component of overall energy use;
• that reducing my fossil fuel-based home energy usage will lead to lower greenhouse gas emissions; and
• that leaders on moral issues should lead by example;
• I pledge to consume no more energy for use in my residence than the average American household by one year from today

Note by selecting the "household" as the target, the energy profligate lifestyles -- first class seating, private planes, entourage, limos, SUVs, powertoys, cottages, etc. -- of the privileged are exempt from examination; whereas almost 100% of Joe Everyman's life is up for grabs.

Noami Wolf gives her 10 easy steps to a Fascist America, currently being implemented by the Bush Junta. This is even too stupid for Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder. One could pointlessly "fisk" the article, but let me argue from a meta point of view: if America was actually becoming fascist, Wolf and her pals would either shut up and cower or, more likely, enthusiastically join up, start sig-heiling and kicking the shit out of people who looked at them sidewise, just like large numbers of "socialists" and "communists" did once they saw which way the wind was blowing in Nazi Germany. And to further belabor the point, if you turned on the TV and saw a mob of masked thugs kicking the shit out of someone, would you take a bet that they're right-wing Bush partisans?

Updates:

• Right Wing News does the point by point
• Kathy asks "why aren't you a lampshade?"

Sheryl Crow wants toilet paper rationing (via London Fog). You can't make this stuff up. What is it, that the little gears in celebrity big thinkers keep spinning and spinning churning out non-solutions to problems no one is having.

The Liberals are not going to run a candidate against American Elizabeth May to increase the odds of introducing her rich-socialist-lawyer-American-style politics into Canada:

Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion will not run a Liberal candidate against Green party Leader Elizabeth May in the next federal election, the first time the Liberals won't plan on having a full slate of candidates.

The leaders have agreed not to run a candidate in each other's riding. They will hold a joint news conference about their deal on Friday in Halifax.

I can seriously see a day where Dion won't be being invited to the Liberal Christmas party.