[...] JR Michael, Greyhawk of The Mudville Gazette, writes a review of Yon’s new book for the New York Post that is worth reading itself because it comes from the perspective of a veteran of two tours in Iraq. I have not read Yon’s book yet, but already knowing his writing and reading Michael’s review reinforces my desire to do so. [...]

One of my very favorite emails that I receive everyday is from a Web site called Very Short List. Five days a week, they send out an email about something quirky, interesting, or just plain funny somewhere on the web. It’s like an Internet scavenger hunt only I don’t have to do the hunting.[...]

One of my professors this quarter clearly does not like President Bush (the others are just less clear). I have had three classes with this professor so far this quarter, and in each class she has taken at least one opportunity to make the statement “They say that President Bush is the worst president the United States has ever had.”[...]

While the rest of the world obsesses about the American presidential election and the Olympic torch relay, Iran’s president announced that his country has activated 6,000 more cascade centrifuges for the production of highly enriched uranium. This announcement brings the total number of centrifuges that Iran admits to operating to around 9,000. [...]

[...] What is interesting to me, however, is that the mischaracterization of my own positions, both by the claim of facts where opinion reigns and by the selective editorial presentation of my own words, is ignored. A troubling aspect of this mischaracterization is that those mischaracterizing make high claims to objectivity on Contributing Factor that I think are defeated by their editorial choices here. [...]