Rather than excerpting it, I'm just going to urge everyone to read this devastating evisceration of the Swift Boat Liars For Bush ads over at Slate.

Actually, I'll excerpt this one paragraph:

Kerry volunteered to go to Vietnam and, once there, volunteered for dangerous duty. He killed enemy fighters, was injured and decorated. Then he came home and distinguished himself in opposition to the war. That a president who shirked any similar duty would try to make an issue out of Kerry's war record is simply amazing. Bush won't get away with it—unless Kerry lets him.

And while you're at Slate, you can read about the national Scrabble championship and Dairy Queen's tragic MooLatte.