Wonkette

* Help out New Orleans without the promise of beads, booze, or breasts. [DailyKos]
* Futility, by any other name, would smell just as promising. [QandO]
* Amnesty International USA kicks off its annual conference today in Portland. All races and religions welcome; must appear overworked, underpaid, and fantastically smug. [HuffPo]
* The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is pretty [ripe for some drillin']. [skippy]
* Let’s just privatize the whole war in Iraq and be done with it. [Pacific Views]