Biden for VP

If you haven't received your text from Team Obama yet, it's now official:

"Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee. Watch the first Obama-Biden rally live at 3pm ET on www.BarackObama.com. Spread the word!"

In all the blogospheric analysis, I've yet to run across a mention that it was Biden who sank Rudy Giulani's campaign by calling it the now trenchant "a noun, a verb, 9/11."

Update: For the record, my text came in at 1:09am PDT, and the email finally arrived at 7:54am PDT.

Not that it will change anything

The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a report confirming that WTC 7 collapsed as a result of fire, not alien attack, Special Forces, Black Helicopters, mutants, or Rudy Giuliani.

A PDF (7MB) of the report can be found at the NIST.

Sad News from Ohio

There have been conflicting reports on the condition of Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the 11th District Representative from Ohio, who apparently suffered a massive aneurysm last night and is reportly in critical condition. Earlier reports had erroneously claimed that she already passed away. You may remember her appearance on The Colbert Report:

Update: She's gone.

Maddow goes to the big show

From Atrios comes the most welcome news that starting Sept 9, Rachel Maddow will be taking over the 9pm Dan Abrams' Verdict slot. She has been terrific subbing for KO and undoubtedly will be a great addition to the MSNBC lineup. Well deserved congratulations go out to Rachel.

Let's see, that makes it now:

• 1 liberal TV host and
• 2 openly gay women hosts.

I guess that means they'll have Pat Buchanan replace David Letterman to compensate.