I’m back from St. Louis and rarin’ to go. I’ll tell you about my trip in another post. Here’s what’s caught my eye this morning:
- 60 years ago today, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Bloggledygook has thoughts on this and nuclear terrorism.
- Nick Cohen, writing in The Observer, agrees with me. There are some in the contemporary Left who are sounding very much like the 19th century imperialists:
With no socialism to provide international solidarity, good motives of tolerance and respect for other cultures have had the unintended consequence of leading a large part of post-modern liberal opinion into the position of 19th-century imperialists. It is presumptuous and oppressive to suggest that other cultures want the liberties we take for granted, their argument runs. So it may be, but believe that and the upshot is that democracy, feminism and human rights become good for whites but not for browns and brown-skinned people who contradict you are the tools of the neo-conservatives.
Hat tip: Harry’s Place
- After a long, prudence-based hiatus one of my favorites, Saudi blogger The Religious Policeman, is posting again! He’s now posting from the somewhat safer United Kingdom. I’ve missed the Policeman’s sense of humor, insights, and courage. Hat tip: Winds of Change.
- Captain’s Quarters has some interesting comments on the intelligence failures that facilitated the attacks on September 11, 2001. More on the same subject from Tom Maguire.
- Clayton Cramer goes to his local paper to find a little food for thought in response to John Tierney’s observations on the innocuousness, on balance, of meth..
- A Guide to the Right Blogosphere as seen from the Left B. and a Guide to the Left Blogosphere as seen from the Right (sort of).
That’s the lot.
