Many of our readers and good friends are from the UK, Canada, Austrailia, New Zealand and other locales where tea is the drink of choice and that folks is the reason for the title of this post. We appreciate their support, their comments, and the fact that they haven't given up on us.

The wingnuttery is spreading $2500 grant helps to talk to the dead Let me be the first to apolgize to our friends in New Zealand. We tried to maintain the quarantine, really we did.

A spiritualist group has been given Auckland ratepayer money so it can teach people to communicate with the dead.

Bill Scher, of Liberal Oasis has a piece on Social Security and such in the Star Tribune

If you haven't visited our friend Chris Locke recently you're missing lots of great stuff.

From the Ant we have The Ten Hottest Books Of This Summer and Avery on Pharmacy Fencers (flash)

The Class of 9/11

Tillman's Parents on the Army

The military let him down. The administration let him down. It was a sign of disrespect. The fact that he was the ultimate team player and he watched his own men kill him is absolutely heartbreaking and tragic. The fact that they lied about it afterward is disgusting."

Cara thinks we should all read this Neo Victorian America and I agree.