More links:

*You learn something new every day: Ricky West tells us about when Hillary Clinton was on the Board of Directors for Wal-Mart. As the biggest business in Arkansas, it made a certain amount of sense to give a cushy job to the governor's wife.

*The shocking news that the Bush Administration's communications team in Iraq is staffed with (gasp!) people who support the Bush Administration's policy in Iraq!

*John Kerry keeps his VP search quiet . . . as detailed by reports about that search in the New York Times. The news here is his apparent intention (if you believe this report) to name a VP nominee a month or so before the convention.

*Wonkette on NBC disassociating itself with Ashleigh Banfield: "Who can we contact about nixing her right to be associated with journalism?"