Sunday Linkblast - May 20

• Static polls, exhausted parties
  Only the NDP can point to real gains in The West while the Bloc regained some of their support in Quebec. The Cons slump as the necessities for governing in a political and ideological minority requires compromises that cost Harper more and more of his base, while never giving him lasting gains beyond it. The Libs simply tread water with the same anemic levels, Dion blinking owlishly into the cameras, as the house sullenly draws to a temporary prorogued cease-fire.
  
  
• Simpson 400 tonight
  Even with a slight dip in quality of late, The Simpsons have consistently held onto the best half hour of television for a ridiculously long time.
  
  
• The Fall of Musharraf?
  Margolis on why we better start really worrying about Pakistan.
  
  
• The Saturday Cartoons
  The weekly American editorial cartoon roundup from Bob Geiger.
  
  
• Carter jumping on the grenade?
  Al Gore's book comes out this week, is Carter deliberately being a lightning rod for the right wing noise machine to give Gore some cover?
  
  
• 3D Pulp
  Art out of a musty yellow-paged alternate world.
  
  
• Elite Links
  I get a whiff of Moonie style news off the main site, but this link page will be porn for public policy nerds - I should know.
  
  
• And speaking of Porn...
  Calls for The Bible to be declared obscene literature.