Opinion: It’s a beautiful day in the bloggy-hood

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Sorry for the headline ... but there’s lots of great stuff out there today. For instance:

Sean Bonner uncorks part five of his fascinating five-part series on California gun-related legislation.

Roman Genn posts his news-caricatures of this week’s Obamapalooza.

Nikki Finke reveals a bunch of Oscar spoilers.

Norman Lear bemoans the fact that national journalists are more interested in the Barack/Hillary ‘pissing’ match than the health care crisis.

Halosheaven conducts a fine interview with excitable Angels broadcaster Rex Hudler.

Brian Doherty rediscovers that the term ‘dismal science,’ used to describe economics, was originally coined ‘because its arguments can be used against slavery.’

Cory Doctorow writes about free fair-use legal representation for documentary filmmakers.

Eugene Volokh challenges the notion that Josh Wolf’s half-year detention is part of a post-Sept. 11 erosion of freedom.

Kevin Drum gives Peter ‘Fighting Faith’ Beinart a hi-five for re-examining his foreign policy worldview while changing his mind about the Iraq War.

Ken Layne recounts last night’s O’Reilly Factor, in which Bill Maher’s criticism of the president was explained away as a daddy complex.

Firedoglake continues its gavel-to-gavel blog coverage of the Libby trial.

LAist links to an interesting video presentation/adaptation of that New Yorker story on 24 you’ve heard so much about.

Speaking of video, L.A. Observed show us a militaristic Training Day video, allegedly from the L.A. Sheriff’s department in July 2006.

Amy Alkon discovers stupid labeling tricks at Gelson’s.

And Mickey Kaus keeps trying to fire bad teachers.