Link Catch Up

• Have the Republicans become the party of instant satisfaction and gratification? This illustration offers some numbers in support of the suggestion:
  
  
  
  
  
• Do you have any idea why McCain won't comment on matters of marital infidelity? It's not like him to give up a chance to be high and mighty...
• A lot of locals have been excited to discover that Google Street View has come to Chattanooga, and they are pouring over the maps to find all the easter eggs caught in the images. But will they find anything as quite as spooky as a house on fire?
• Tennessee's progressive blogosphere Sunday roundup.
• Quote of the week, from Ian McKellan, regarding an (yet another) intolerant religious leader: "From the pulpit, homophobia is preached by some arrogant religious leaders who think their beliefs are superior to our inborn and, some would say, God-given nature." Ha!
• Here's a puzzler:
  So John McCain apparently lifted huge portions of his statement on the unfolding crisis in Georgia from Wikipedia. Here's a 3 AM question for you: do you want a President with a real strategy for containing such a crisis, or do you want someone who's stumbling over wikipedia entries after getting internet lessons from his wife? I guess when it comes to McCain and foreign policy, it's a google!
  I don't think he's up for the job, but we'll see. (UPDATE: more here and here!)
• Mind-boggling quote of the day, from George W. Bush on Russia's activities in Georgia: "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state.... Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century.... We have no doubts about it. This is a deliberate attempt to destroy an entire country and change the regime." I am speechless. (UPDATE: more here!)
• Will a Southern community serve as a nuclear waste dump?