From the blogosphere...

Glenn Greenwald at Hullabaloo offered this unsettling piece Friday, in which he details the escalating, violent threats against the media appearing daily on Right-wing blogs. Nothin' like a few public hangings to define "democracy", I always say.

- - - - -

And if you're still even slightly tempted to believe that the Bush Administration had a real understanding of the Middle East, or any inkling of the sectarian violence that would be unleashed by an invasion of Iraq, read this important post by the inimitable Juan Cole of Informed Comment. Heckuva job, Georgie!