Weekend Update - Memorial Day Edition

• New polls say that over 50% of Americans are "Pro-Life." I got one of those calls a couple weeks ago. An automated voice asks "Do you consider yourself pro life?" I hesitated for a moment, and it barked "please answer the question yes or no!" well, heck, I'm not anti life, so I must be ... no, wait, this is a trick ... "NO" I says, and it hangs up on me. Click. Poll taken. and while we're on the subject, here's Mark Morford.


• "No matter how hard President Obama tries to turn the page on the previous administration, he can’t. Until there is true transparency and true accountability, revelations of that unresolved eight-year nightmare will keep raining down drip by drip, disrupting the new administration’s high ambitions." Another beautiful column by Frank Rich.


• Larry O'Donnell said it right: "This was as sleazy a presentation by a vice president as we've had since Spiro Agnew. This was an absolute abomination." Yep, His Dickness, Lord Cheney is at it again. Even his own people want him to shut the hell up.


• Oh and here's that Pat Boone update you've all been waiting for. Yep, he's still looney tunes. Thank gawd no one cares what he thinks.


• Elliot Cohen writing for Buzzflash: On May 13, in a Washington court filing, the Obama Justice Department eliminated the category of “unlawful enemy combatant,” which the Bush administration had built into the 2006 Military Commissions Act for purposes of detaining suspected terrorists without due process. But now President Obama wants to replace this category with a new system of “prolonged detention” that could conceivably keep detainees in prison into perpetuity in order to prevent crimes they have not yet committed. Regardless of what Arthur says, I still have a few misgivings about our new President.


• "I never thought about how warm and embraceable Dick Cheney actually is by comparison until his daughter, Liz, began elbowing and heaving her way onto the public airwaves in defense of dear old Dad." p.m. carpenter comments on Liz Cheney.


• Please honor all veterans, especially this weekend. And while you're at it, honor those who stayed home and protested the wars. Happy Memorial Day.