Jeralyn Merritt is subbing for Eric Alterman and her column is up at Eric Alterman's Altercation.
She also has a post at TalkLeft worth reading. Actually, all of her posts are worth reading.
NOTE: I've got better things to do than erase the childish, immature, psychotic, obscene comments from looney Roger Weidner and his gang of illiterate morons, so just put your opinions at the Johnhays.net Forum.