Incumbent Senate Candidate Russ Feingold has a 4 to 1 fund raising lead over his Republican challengers, according to Graema Zielinski.

Link to the California slide show.

The Chronicle features a sobering look at the soldiers who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq.
Related & useful reading: Retired Colonel David H. Hackworth writes a useful weekly column on military issues.

Former President Jimmy Carter writes a weblog with musings from his current Africa trip.

File sharing, online music sales and high cd prices are taking their toll on record stores. [Washington Post]
The market for legally downloadable music is tiny today, but the success of Apple’s iTunes online music store and the rush of rival services to the marketplace is expected to gobble up an ever-larger share of the pop music pie. A recent study by Forrester Research, which examines technology trends, predicts that in five years fully one-third of all music will be delivered through modems, and the CD itself will be passe, if not obsolete, in the years after. This isn’t necessarily bad news for the record labels, but it could be lethal for brick-and-mortar stores.

Mike Lucas looks back at a few of Elroy Hirsch’s “Crazyleg’s” memorable moments.
I seem to remember being in a Minneapolis bar years ago after a football game where Elroy bought a round – evidently, this was not unusual.

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