I’m back on the CoA beat, today, for Michael vdG. Did you miss me? Don’t answer that. But please do give some extra attention and a little love to these generally Centrist blogs.

At Left of Centrist, Robert Rouse has finally had it with reality TV.

Earlier this week, another Robert re-visited the subject of payroll disparity, i.e., the grand-canyon gap in compensation between CEO’s and their average workers.

At We the People, Charles Amico asks readers “to help make the 2008 Beijing Olympics a catalyst for change in occupied Tibet,” and links to an enlightening and disturbing article in Rolling Stone.

netZoo suggests that, if left to voters, our First Amendment right to curse in public might be removed, but thankfully, the judicial branch is more considerate of those of us who love a good m$*@#!(^%$~ing diatribe.

Seth at Independents for Obama points us to Republicans for Obama, leading me to believe we’ve finally arrived at the point of Everyone for Obama.

Requiring no thought whatsoever, just an appreciation for nature’s breathtaking power, Todd Pearson offers this “Picture of the Day” at Reasonable Prudence.

Shay at Booker Rising gives us a Booker Himself “Quote of the Day,” which more than slightly suggests that, after 100 years, we’re still engaged in the same debates.

And finally, the brilliant author of Central Sanity (can anyone say “blatantly self serving”?), offers this maybe naive (and maybe not) read re: two complementary roads to conflict resolution.