Here’s what’s caught my eye this morning:
- Joseph Marshall of A Straight Shot of Politics has a fascinating deconstruction of the political odyssey of blogger-emeritus Michelle Catalano.
- Eric Martin of American Footprints defends the truthiness of The Washington Post’s reporting of Iraqi casualties in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the Askariya shrine last week.
- John Donovan of Argghhh! provides a little more detail and comes to a somewhat different conclusion on the downgrading of the readiness rating of the single Level 1-rated Iraqi unit to Level 2. That does bring up a question I’ve been wondering about: how many European military units would be rated at a U. S. Level 1?
- It’s amazing what you can do with Legos.
- R. J. Rummel of Democratic Peace has a fabulous post on public opinion in China and the prospects for democracy there. Put me down as skeptical for those prospects: in my view the CCP is not recognizeable by Westerners as a communist party at all and resembles the imperial bureaucracy that it supplanted.
- What the heck has happend to Electric Venom? When I went to the site this morning it appeared to have been hijacked by one of those URL pirates. Kate, where are you?
- I suspect that the proponents of Schumer-Graham are some of the isolationists that President Bush warned us about in this year’s SOTU.
- Was NBC’s David Gregory drunk when he called into the Imus program this morning? I thought he sounded far from hinged when he was covering the Cheney/birdshot kerfuffle so I’m genuinely worried about him.
- Speaking of worrying, is Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health deteriorating?
That’s the lot.
Speaking of amazing things you can do with Legos – We took a trip to Disney World last month and visited the Lego store in Downtown Disney. The Lego creations that they have inside and outside the store truly are amazing.