Things to make you smile before you have go to the family picnic, try and keep Uncle Ned's hands off your thigh, wrestle the M-80's away from the kids ("Honey, sparklers are not for poking in your brother's eye.") and urp all night from food poisoning.

Raw hamburgers are not a good thing.

"I Lewis Libby stars in "Scooter. The Movie"

Tom Tomorrow takes on Healthcare reform & conservatives.

In that vein, Kucinich will be Keynote Speaker at the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists Convention. (too many jokes)

Finally...

Q2 #'s: MSNBC Shows 49 Percent Demo Growth In Primetime

"For the third consecutive quarter," MSNBC "pushed past the competition to achieve more growth than any other cable news network," the net's press release says.

In total day, MSNBC was up 34 percent in the 25-54 demo (123,000 vs. 92,000). In primetime, MSNBC was up 49 percent in the demo, from 133,000 in Q2 2006 to 198,000 in Q2 2007.

At 7, Hardball was up 9 percent in the demo (146,000 vs. 134,000). At 8pm, Countdown was up 54 percent in the demo (241,000 vs. 156,000). And at 9pm, Scarborough Country was up 36 percent in the demo (170,000 vs. 125,000), demonstrating MSNBC's challenge as it replaces Joe Scarborough in primetime.