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USA: The New York Times: Bush Planning August Attack Against Kerry: It’s a clever plan… mock your opponent. “Mr. Bush’s advisers plan to cap the month at the Republican convention in New York, which they said would feature Mr. Kerry as an object of humor and calculated derision.

USA: Howard Zinn discusses his experience at the WWII Memorial celebration.

This is also my 500th post to the blog.

US: A fresh Jim Hightower interview in Mother Jones. Some of his stories take me back a few years to Austin and Gubna W’s administration. The bulk of the interview covers the compromises progressives and the Kerry campaign are making to defeat W.

USA: CNN dutifully reports W’s new campaign theme: “we’ve turned a corner, and we’re not turning back”. Fox News continues to bleat the party line, while reporting a Kerry-Edwards trip to Wendy’s, with Ben Affleck in tow.

The same Fox story ends with a litany of tax increases that Kerry supported. Fox and the GOP would like you, the American voter, to remember that John Kerry is another tax-and-spend liberal from Massachusetts.

Meanwhile the projected budget deficit is getting closer to half a trillion dollars, as predicted earlier this year. W certainly has the spend habit down cold, and the tax increases will come no matter who is elected.

What exactly is around that corner, W? And how will we know when we’ve turned it?

Boing Boing describes a 1975 hard drive crash. Disk capacity is estimated at 256K, approximately the size of this post. You could probably see the binary data on the disk surface!