Salon points out that Europe is making a historic break with the US on foreign policy in Europe's declaration of independence. Europe is distancing itself from Bush's war mongering and arrogance.

They also have Gary Hart blasting the poor homeland security of this administration.

And among other good stuff there is the protest-crowd numbers game. This article repeats something I had heard earlier and thought silly, Congress has banned the DC park police from providing crowd estimates. A very good article that ends on an optimistic note:

"In the Vietnam era, it was when middle-aged folks and middle-class folks, doctors and lawyers began coming out and participating that public opinion began to turn," he says. "I don't know if this will be a harbinger of a similar kind of change or not, but I was really struck on Saturday by the visible presence of a larger proportion of older people. I think it was impressive."