Saturday Morning Open Thread

Good morning. So glad it's Saturday and that heinous gathering of Republicans is off my television.

Great news: Our good friend and fellow blogger, Bob Geiger, is back in action. Bob took a couple months off from blogging, but he's started writing again. That means the Saturday cartoons are back, too. Every week, with permission of the cartoonists, Bob compiles some of the week's best editorial cartoons. It's a great way to recap the week that was. And, as you can imagine, the RNC convention and Sarah Palin provided plenty of fodder. Check them out here. You'll have some much needed laughs.

Then, the poem of the week provides another much needed respite. This week's selection is "Loving in Truth" by Sir Phillip Sidney. It's an English renaissance poem about love -- "courtly love." The poet who writes the poem blog provides an eclectic selection of poems, but we're very much waiting to read some of his original poetry on that blog (hint, hint).

We're apparently in the middle of a tropical storm here in D.C. So far, lots of rain, some wind.

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