Here's some thoughts to tide you over, with a warning that I get political starting right after the entry from Billmon. Coming soon to this blog, as soon as I have time, an overview of my playing on Blogshares over the last month and my Rapid Reviews for this week's comics. Both of which are right there in the back of my mind, just waiting to get written. Really.
Steven Grant has a good analysis of the CrossGen problem. It starts with an extended wrestling metaphor, but don't hold that against him.
This blog, the dissident frogman, has some posts on the heatwave deaths in France. Warning, some of the stories may make you disgusted. via the Insolvent Republic of Blogistan
Not only is WildGuard getting attention in Wizard, it's also getting an article and preview in TV Guide! Good job Todd! And yes, I'm still voting daily for Aqua Chica.
Will Pfeifer's latest column is on collecting TV shows on DVD. Well, a couple of TV shows, at least.
Billmon on racism. Well worth reading.
Sally Baron is being remembered across the blogosphere as her "nickname" for Bush picks up steam.
John Ashcroft's press conferences refuse to admit certain members of the press. via Tom Tomorrow
Salam Pax's home was raided by Americans. Well, at least we aren't shooting them on vague suspicions. Still, what kind of liberators are we, anyway?
Riverbend is rightly angry at American companies being given jobs that Iraqis could do just as well, not to mention cheaper. We're trying to build Iraq up again, right? Why, then, aren't the Iraqis being allowed to build their own bridges?
And one last political thought: We've been told for months now that the Bush Administration planned on releasing lots of proof of the WMD in September, possibly as a political bombshell. Why are there now a bunch of stories about Iraqi dissidents feeding us false information? To say this whole WMD thing is tangled is to understate the situation. No one has ever disputed that Saddam once had weapons of mass destruction. But a large portion of the population of the world believed that the UN weapons inspections were successfully holding him at bay from producing more, and maybe even had forced him to get rid of the ones he had. The Bush Administration disagreed, and said he had weapons ready to use, which was a large part of the justification for war. After the invasion we were told, no, the Bush Administration never said that, they said that Saddam had a weapons program. And now they are saying the intelligence they got from Iraqi dissidents was intentionally misleading... Is this just all CYA on the part of Bush and his cronies? Was our intelligence really that bad? How can we expect this administration to protect us from real threats if they are out chasing phantoms?
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