• The New York Times rightly supports laws that block enforcement of legal judgments relating to freedom of speech in countries where the freedom of speech is not as legally protected as it is in the United States.
• The LA Times’s Joel Stein on trying to convince your elderly Jewish relatives in Florida to vote for Obama.
• A Republican Party county chairman in New Mexico thinks some racist things about Hispanics, blacks, and Obama.
• Truthdig investigates who is behind the Obsession ‘radical Islam’ DVD.
• Margaret Cho says sexist things about Sarah Palin, gets called on it, posts one of the weirdest defences ever, and promptly gets called on it again.
• This year’s MacArthur Genius from the World of Contemporary Art™ is inexplicable as befits a member of that community.
• Campbell Brown, my new hero, tears the McCain camp a new one over their sexist treatment of Sarah Palin.
• Mike Huckabee thinks John McCain’s I-won’t-go-to-the-debate-because-they-need-me-in-Washington-even-more-oh-wait-no-they-really-didn’t gambit was an enormous error in judgment.
• Finally, Jewish settlers in the West Bank—remember them?—are committing terrorism against their fellow Israelis. Terrific.

What Firefox tabs are eating up your computer’s memory today?

Total distance covered so far: about 4000 km (2500 mi).
Total money spent on gasoline: don’t want to think about it.

To sate your insatiable appetite for road trip photography, you’ll just have to wait until more photos can be taken, edited, and uploaded. You can visit the full gallery here; as for right now, please allow me to whet said appetite with a few choice tidbits:

Tomorrow: Ciudad Juárez and then San Antonio!