I've gotten addicted to the wikipedia page for july 31, which is my birthday. It seems that I share a birthday with Milton Friedman, Primo Levi, and J.K. Rowling. On the same day, the weimar constitution was adopted; the Nazi party won the last free election in the weimar republic; and Hermann Göring ordered SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question." Something to think about when the date comes around again.

The New York Times has a "Must Do List"

..of things that need to be done to reverse the unwise and lawless policies of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Worth a read if you need yet another reminder of the sad state of civil rights in America.